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Top Artwork by Phillip Manning This unordered list is representative of the thoughts and tastes of Editor-in-Chief Ben Irwin; Make sure to See Managing Editor Charles’ Top of 2013 picks as well I’m perpetually awestruck and humbled by the inexorable link between music and the human condition, or at the very least...

We’re closing fast on the end of the year here and the Pinpoint Offices are bustling with rotgut strychnine buzzes, mimeographed editorial genitalia contests, intern “death” matches and some damn Japanese ghost girl giggling in the air vents so, yeah…it’s the perfect environment to safely assess the rock (and not)...

Photos by Maggie Boyd // Maggie Boyd Photography Ed. Note: When we first heard Fitz (and his Tantrums), we glibly thought “Well, isn’t that nice for Darryl Hall?” and then we got to worrying about the future prospects of John Oates and his emphatic moustache and then – somehow –...

Let me just say right off the bat that I will likely be unable to attend the BUKU Music + Arts Project 2014 Festival because it comes one short week after the vainglorious debacle of SXSW that usually lands me chugging Cipro and praying for deliverance which is a serious...

I wish I could build a fire. I wish I could build a fire in the pine woods by the lake where my father spent his summers learning to scale trout and flirt with soft, forgotten girls, naked under the light of an august moon. I wish I could build...

Over the past few years Hi Ho Silver Oh has captivated us here at Pinpoint Music. We’ve spent time with them all across the US but somehow when listening to their music we always feel right at home. Subtle Majesty is Hi Ho Silver Oh’s stock-in-trade. No one builds songs...