With their ridiculous number of side projects and other interests, it's amazing that songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Rob Crow and Armistead Burwell Smith IV continue to make killer albums together as Pinback. As ever, on Information Retrieved, their fifth LP, the San Diego duo expertly craft their signature multilayered sound of interlocking guitar and bass lines and precise vocal exchanges, as they tread the line between calculated structure and organic form like nobody else. In fact, it's so hard to describe Pinback to your friends that you really you really just have to play it for them to get it. Fortunately for us, Pinback returned to the KEXP and performed their hypnotic sound live in our studio. Check out the mesmerizing session now:
In the late 90's, few bands were like Firewater. The NYC band was mixing Balkan folk with contemporary post-punk for sound that would eventually inspire others like Gogol Bordello, Balkan Beat Box, Devotchka and even Beirut. Led by former Cop Shoot Cop frontman Tod A, Firewater became musical world…
Seattle super-group Walking Papers played a killer session in the KEXP studio for Audioasis, where they shared three songs off their Mike McCready (of Pearl Jam)-produced self-titled debut from October last year, released on Sunyata Records. Such an assured sound from a band that just released a d…
