Biography

If you know anything about Pinsky, it's a safe bet you're aware of their love for video games, movies and libations.  But there's more to these four twenty-somethings than degrading livers and the possibility of carpal tunnel. 

Originally forming in 2007, the band put out their self-recorded EP Two for the Road in early-2008 and started to spread the word throughout New England.  The debut EP, comprised of seven songs, has been compared stylistically to Hot Water Music, Brand New, and Hot Rod Circuit.  The disc quickly got recognition throughout the Portland music scene and went on to be nominated for Best EP of 2008 by the Portland Phoenix.  Their single "Beverly" started receiving airplay on rock radio station WCYY and a radio interview quickly followed.  The video for "Beverly" was filmed a short time later in Brooklyn, NY.  Shot on 35mm film, using cameras way out of their price range, the boys suddenly realized the good luck and fortune in the connections and friendships they had made.  They managed to swindle the competition and win Best Music Video with "Beverly" at the Pocono Mountains film festival.  TFTR was re-released in 2009 including two new songs and a copy of the video.  Later that year, the band contributed an instrumental track to Maine-based film "The Rivals", a documentary that, among other awards, went on to win Best Picture at the Phoenix Film Festival.

Summer 2009 brought an end to Pinsky's home base of operations: Rancho Desario - their third floor downtown Portland apartment that housed their studio, rehearsal space and 75% of the band itself.  Before they left, they gave Rancho the sendoff it deserved: 24 hours of partying.  The end result is the "Still Drinking" video, a documentation of what it was KINDA like to be in Pinsky.  Twenty (or so) of their closest friends gathered to help bookend what can only be described as an "era." 

December of 2009 brought the band to the doorstep of Getaway Group Recording in Wakefield, MA.  There the gents worked with producer/engineer Jay Maas to help sculpt what would be their next release, a two-song digital download consisting of "States" and "The Only Ones."  The two new songs, a preview of their upcoming full-length, show the band progressing toward a 90's alternative/emo sound while retaining the energy of their pop-rock roots.  But it took the band going out of their comfort zone and into someone else's studio to realize all they had in their own.  Currently, the quartet are in their new home studio, busy recording material for their full-length due out this Fall.  They'll be in your neck of the woods soon enough...