A press release for The Pinx

July 29^th, 2009: For Immediate Release

The Pinx turn the Atlanta heat into Look What You Made Me Do, one of 2009’s best rock records.

Grab the MP3 of “Impatience” by The Pinx at: http://tinyurl.com/thepinx-impatience.

Watch The Pinx perform “Impatience” at: http://tinyurl.com/thepinx-impatience-live.

“…like your favorite garage band all grown up… You can hear it all: Led Zeppelin, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, The Who and The Kinks.” (Rebecca Ledford, macon.com)

“They actually sound like a cross between Brother Cane and the more frenzied moments of Big Star’s Radio City LP.” (Connect Savannah)

As The Pinx stand facing a sold-out crowd of 1800 at the Variety Playhouse, Atlanta’s hardest-working power trio have little time to dissect how they’ve reached this moment in one short year.

After proving themselves in dives and at festivals across the country and living on the road, The Pinx now find themselves collecting accolades from a certain Grammy-award winning band that chooses to remain anonymous (but is identified as any of several very large, extinct proboscidian mammals of the genus Mammut) and debuting an album that led Ben Harper to personally book them on his tour.

On stage, The Pinx are known for their violent performances, opening veins, pushing limits and reassuring the crowd that Rock and Roll at its best is sexy, snarky, dark and sweet. All of these philosophies are apparent in the grooves of the band’s debut album, Look What You Made Me Do. One listen and you’ll be glad they did what they did.

See The Pinx live in the deep south.

Sept 4 Atlanta, Georgia @ The Star Bar, Sept 17 Birmingham, Alabama @ The Nick, Sept 18 Tuscaloosa, Alabama @ Egan’s Bar

artist: The Pinx

title: Look What You Made Me Do

label: Self-Released

release: August 25, 2009

album download: request

“Impatience”: mp3

“Change Me”: mp3

The Pinx Links:

EPK | MySpace | SonicBids | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter

Fanatic Links:

Website | Blog | Facebook | MySpace | comPuteR | Podcast | Twitter | YouTube

DISCLAIMER: ALL MP3s linked in this e-mail BLOG are approved for re-POSTING.

 

Rare things come in threes

It’s snowing in Atlanta, I’m doing a blog entry, and the Pinx have been having a mysterious run of good fortune lately. After personally being interviewed for a piece in Performing Songwriter earlier in 2007, The Pinx and I were featured in a live review in Southeastern Performer just a couple months ago. We’ll be doing a live taping for Comcast OnDemand in March (so come out and scream loud), touring England in May, and we’re rehearsing and writing like crazy to delete the demos and re-record the entire album live in the studio. Those lovable bastards, our demented cousins in The Deadtowners did a video shoot (okay, for a Tattoo Shop’s commercial) which airs on [adult swim] and during … LA Ink? In any case, it’s awesome that they’re in a big-timey commercial like that with dancing girls and motorcycles… but also Chris wore a Pinx shirt on camera the whole time the commercial was being filmed. Sweetest shout-out ever. Around December 20th, Jim and I cut a cover of The Kinks‘ “Father Christmas”, posted it on myspace and sent it to the local radio stations. 99x played it while I drove my family around Atlanta looking at the Christmas lights in various neighborhoods. I’ll never forget that. I’ll never forget a few magical gigs in Macon, GA this past year, being constantly hassled by security at Mucklewain 2, taking part in 500 Songs For Kids, making tons of new friends, finding new mentors, running up $200 bar tabs (and paying them, of course) and discovering that I probably should have left Nashville a lot sooner than I did.

Even the bad things are working out lately.

I broke the headstock off of my SG at a show (but Jason, a genius at Too Many Guitars fixed it and made it better than new). Did I mention that we lost Jennifer? We did. I think we officially called it artistic differences; she’s already hard at work on her own projects and happier than ever. My songwriting partner and longtime friend of mine and Jim’s, Joe Giddings stepped in to be our new enabler – I mean bass player. Joe’s well-known already for his work in Star Collector, being in the live lineup of Gonzalez and for his own critically-acclaimed solo work on the legendary NotLame record label. He’s a kickass lead singer, a terrifying lead guitarist and a helluva songwriter. Jim and I are terribly excited to have him with us. Not only are we learning what I’ve written so far, but we’re rocking out during practices and coming up with new ideas together.

The van is covered with snow right now. I can’t wait to take it out on the road and meet more people, run up huge bar tabs, break more guitars and oh yeah, play some rock and roll.
See y’all soon.

Adam

 

Writing, shows, melting clocks

Still writing lyrics for the new record. It’s going well. Until we get that record out, we’ll be trying out some of the new material at shows.

There are a lot of shows coming up in Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, so be sure to mark your calendars. Come on out to some of them and say hello to the new-to-us Pinx van. T-shirts are on the way very soon.

 

That’s Entertainment

Another lo-fi band photo

Originally uploaded by adammcintyre.

The rolling terror now known as Adam & The Pinks have had their first road trip. The Art Bar might just be the coolest venue ever with probably the sexiest bartender ever. Plus, robots and Gamera. It was a nice first step into the world, our little newborn fawn legs quivering in the moonlight on the forest’s floor. As Todd Snider says, “let’s hit this town til its teeth come out!”
We’re ready to go again. Or do you need some water first?

 

From the photo booth at the Star Bar

From the photo booth at the Star Bar

Originally uploaded by adammcintyre.

Happy Birthday to our bassist Jennifer and also Happy zero Birthday to our guitarist’s baby Katja. That’s why Rick isn’t in the photo – he’s busy
Say hello to our crazy rock-and-roll-saving drummer Jim (center).
And yes, the beard is gone.

 

Don’t miss boat.

I’m writing this from Tennessee, where I’m on the road with Les Honky More Tonkies and I wanted to inform you that the part of this webpage that has “shows” actually has content now.
We have two shows:

- February 24th at Vinyl in Atlanta (part of International Pop Overthrow)
- June 1st at 10 High in Atlanta*

We’re working on filling in that space with other gigs. Do you want us to play for your amusement? Is that all we are to you? Good!

* = Jen knows how to talk to booking people. She has clearly read my how-to series. Thanks to Jen for applying this brilliant information to getting us this show and many more to follow.