<b>OK, COMPUTER:</b> Pinback's Rob Crow (left) and Zach Smith take the stage at Velvet Jones this week in support of the band's most recent album, Information Retrieved. Writing music has never been ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With an indie act as revered as San Diego’s Pinback—consisting of former roomates ...

Time can be unkind to indie’s progenitors. Bands either burn out or fade away, eclipsed by the newest trend with careers measured in years rather than decades. Pinback, the Southern California ...