Live Show Reviews

These were originally taken back in November 2009 at Bar Pink is San Diego, CA. Nico Vega is currently wrapping up a whirlwind tour with Soundtracks of Our Lives....

Outside it was 20 degrees, upstairs an inviting 75. In the basement of the Cake Shop, where Obits was playing their first night of a two night engagement, it was probably over 100; oddly enough that’s just about the perfect temperature to see these guys. Obits isn’t big on theatrics. Taking the stage in an unassuming...

If you haven’t yet allowed Nico Vega to assault your senses at a live show than now is as good a time as any. With a new tour just underway (dates below) there’s a good chance they’re coming to the ever-ambiguous “town near you”. If they aren’t coming within 500 miles of you (which is really the only excuse...

The blood is real, the dick is not. The songs are sordid glam trash any GG devotee would fucking love if he weren’t so distracted by the skinhead drinking piss. The singer eating pussy. The surly bitch kicking him in the back of his head for objectifying the half-naked makeout pit. So, yeah…it’s good. It’s damage,...

I needed a day off from guitarists who squeeze into tight black jeans. From lead singers wearing clever, size-too-small, t-shirts that I don’t understand. From drummers who look like their last hair cut was collaboration between Robert Smith and Flock of Seagulls lead Mike Score. More over, I needed a break...

If you haven’t seen the Rival Sons live you need to find their next tour date within three states of you, shake down your deadbeat friends for cash, and hit the road. Listening to Rival Son’s debut Before The Fire once you’ve seen them live is a completely different and more cerebral experience. The live...

MGMT, Girl Talk, MSTRKRFT, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit and Murs all on the same day on an island in the San Francisco Bay? Sounds like Day 1 of the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival, arguably the better of the several San Francisco summer music festivals. Only, Pinpoint Music will never know. It may or...

Attending a Rodrigo y Gabriela show is like submitting your soul to a hot, sweaty musical threesome. Sometimes gentle and intimate, sometimes aggressive and raw it’s an experience that leaves your ears entirely satisfied while longing for more. Yes, they are a male and female classical acoustic guitar duo that can play Metallica better...

There has been a void in hip-hop for the last, oh, ten years – somewhere in between the thuggy, chain-tugging, champagne-spraying, dollar bill-counting video porn and the backpack-wearing head nodders; the sexiness I think Justin Timberlake has been talking about, was lost. But guess what J-Lake (that’s what I call him), it has been...

Check out the audio from the interview with Cage the Elephant below Cage the Elephant Interview by pinpointmusic Pinpoint music had the opportunity to speak with Daniel and Brad from Cage the Elephant after their Outside Lands performance on August 30th, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. The chance meeting may have only occurred because...

If you’ve been to one of these festivals before, you know, that although you’d love to see every great band there, its impossible. Don’t even try; it’s just dumb. The reality is, you’re going to have to make some tough decisions and compromises; a band you’re kinda into vs. a band you’ve heard...

The Happy Hollows like to straddle the line between noise pop and indie rock. Their debut LP Spells (due out October 6th 2009) is an incredible album that stands out in a time where artists seem all too comfortable blending in. Spells is available early online through bandcamp at http://thehappyhollows.bandcamp.com/. Even though Spells can stand...