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Emperor X – The Orlando Sentinel
There are a lot of dudes out there, these days, slinging their hat on the one-man (mostly) band bracket, playing up the slop sink, lost fidelity aesthetic like it’s a badge of homely honor as opposed to a first world reactionary privilege and some of them are good, sure…really goddamn...

Outside Lands 2014 Spotlight: Christopher Owens
So Christopher Owens has a crazy life, right? Forget that he grew up in a travelling gypsy cult, that’s real, that happens and I know people who’ve lived an iteration of that, kind of, (unlike boring-ass Jenny Lewis, who recently told the New York Times some ridiculous name-droppy, madeup, Hollywood...

Wreck & Reference – Want
I don’t think I can do this. I can’t. I’m a man, goddamnit. I’m not fat. I don’t cut myself and I don’t cry after sex. I know I was never a vampire and neither was (redacted) and that blood fucking, rape fantasy and corpse play are not the sort...

The Neighbourhood / Travis Scott @ Stubb’s – 7.18.14
Photos by Maggie Boyd // Maggie Boyd Photography Ed. Note: We at Pinpoint are still trying to figure out how to react to The Neighbourhood. Radio has been playing their singles in loop since their debut album came out of Los Angeles in 2013. Anyone who turned on iTunes in that...

Outside Lands 2014 Spotlight: Lucius
If you’re going to any music festival, Lucius is exactly the type of band you want to get to know. Set aside what they actually sound like and what you might expect from their live performance, you will instantly earn a shit-ton of social currency for knowing a girl-band that...

WATCH! the Sleepwalking Bugout of Hot Sugar’s “Your Nails Look So Pretty”
I don’t know who this dude or where the fuck he’s come from (Brooklyn? He smells like Brooklyn) or just what in the sam hell the impetus is for this purped-up codeine vaped pop jammer but I dig the Hot Sugar. It’s a groove trip for fledgling narcoleptics and the...

Slow Club – Complete Surrender
Slow Club seemingly enjoys challenging themselves to bound across musical plains. In the handful of EPs and full-lengths they’ve released since 2006 none have sounded like the one before or after it. There’s really no musical boundaries with Slow Club largely due to the band’s primary members, English duo Charles...

Death Grips – Niggas on the Moon
Death Grips is dead and Niggas on the Moon is the “band’s” (quotation marks taken from Death Grip’s Facebook annihilation napkin statement) first pass on impressing their eulogy on art, time and the maddened zipgun massive. A wantonly irritable catalog of prickling, debilitated soundscapes released freely a few short weeks...

RATKING – So It Goes
If you happen to come across a writhing mass of rats intertwined by their tails, essentially knotted together with blood, feces and dirt, you have found a rat king. A rare phenomenon associated with bad omens, more specifically plagues. If you happen to come across a New York rap trio...

LISTEN! to the Rough Kitten Drunk of Modern Vices’ “Cheap Style”
I used to think I could live in Chicago but…I don’t know. After so long in New York, the Midwest just seems a little weird, bro. A little faded, dated, happiness is a warm gun on a barbed tongue and I wouldn’t call the El a subway system (because it...

DEVO @ The Wiltern – 6.29.14
Ed. Note: Apologies to all you spuds out there for being lax on getting the DEVO snaps up and atom but the cross-continental call of American Rock and Roll Freedom did a number on our nerdist tunnel vision. Here they are then, the documents from El Jefe’s daze at the...

Sharon Van Etten @ El Rey – 6.28.14
Ed. Note: There is a timelessness to the sound of Sharon Van Etten that is both emphatic and devastating. A soulful, sensual and sorrowful candor played out a in big band (not in the swing sense, just fulsome) context as opposed to the bare armed oppression of the solo sirens...