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	Rob Crow - February 28th, 2007 in Cambridge, MA
		For those not in the know, Rob Crow is a multi-instrumentalist, and musical genius, who, generally, writes warm and simple pop songs, and performs them in the most disjointed and convoluted ways possible.
		However for his encore, a tired Crow returned to the stage alone, and, after warning the audience he was risking an embolism, ran through two sincere, although irreverent, covers: "Astro Zombies" by The Misfits, and "Minor Threat" by Minor Threat.
		The secret of Rob Crow remained safely in the hearts of those forty fans who came out to TT the Bear's, and despite Rob Crow's recent surrender into his own pleasant pop world, I'm pretty sure there will be no tour bus present at his next solo performance.
	toomuchrock.com /shows/robcrow.html (1056 words)

	Amazon.com: Living Well: Music: Rob Crow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rob Crow bounces around a lot, from the assorted weirdness of Thingy to his fondness for the Optigan, an obscure type of organ noted primarily for its legendary unreliability.
		Crow is the front man for Pinback, and this is the story of how he casually made the best record of his career, and why it's called "Living Well".
		I can only conclude by saying that Rob Crow is unlike any pop musition I have ever encountered in all my years of listening to music, he has far more in common with classical composers then he does rock musitions in that his gift for music has shown no signs of deterioration.
	www.amazon.com /Living-Well-Rob-Crow/dp/B000LMPFBG (1573 words)

	CMT.com : Rob Crow : Biography
		Crow has released a pair of solo CDs that are distinctly odd even for this quirky musician.
		Crow 's scribbled liner note explains that the songs were recorded with a four-track cassette deck in the apartment next door to his and Tenuta 's, on equipment belonging to Heavy Vegetable bassist Travis Nelson.
		Crow followed his solo sojourn with the duo Optiganally Yours, a duo of Crow on vocals and Optigan (an inexpensive home keyboard instrument from the '60s that plays sounds stored on discs) player Pea Hix.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/crow_rob/bio.jhtml (379 words)

	Rob Crow: My Room Is a Mess - PopMatters Music Review
		The one sheet that accompanied this disc declares Rob Crow to be a songwriting genius, throwing out any genre-imposed boundaries that afflict his contemporaries.
		Crow seems to avoid committing emotionally or musically to his songs, and if he doesn't care about them, why should I? Rob Crow has been nothing short of a prolific performer on the San Diego scene.
		Crow is a gifted and capable songwriter, but listening to My Room Is a Mess you can almost feel the smirk that must've been on Crow's face as he recorded this album in his bedroom.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/crowrob-myroom.shtml (743 words)

	Rob Crow: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		San Diego-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Rob Crow [+] is an exceptionally prolific and eclectic musician who splits his time amongst a variety of projects.
		Crow's scribbled liner note explains that the songs were recorded with a four-track cassette deck in the apartment next door to his and Tenuta 's, on equipment belonging to Heavy Vegetable bassist Travis Nelson [+].
		Crow followed his solo sojourn with the duo Optiganally Yours, a duo of Crow on vocals and Optigan (an inexpensive home keyboard instrument from the '60s that plays sounds stored on discs) player Pea Hix [+].
	music.com /person/rob_crow/1 (464 words)

	Rob Crow - Temporary Residence Limited
		Rob Crow is the frontman for the relatively well-known group Pinback.
		"I Hate You, Rob Crow" CD Single - Temporary Residence Limited 2007
		"I Hate You, Rob Crow (Single Version)" from "Living Well" CD/LP
	www.temporaryresidence.com /bands/robcrow.php (154 words)

	Thingy: To the Innocent: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The silly, self-indulgent, cute words Rob Crow sang on Heavy Vegetable's albums were to Ewoks as their dark, masterfully played, and rhythmically compelling music was to all of "The Empire Strikes Back." Rob Crow's third orbital shell holds Thingy's first record, Songs about Angels, Evil, and Running Around on Fire.
		Rob Crow Likes "Star Wars:" Forget that a track from Songs about Angels is mysteriously entitled "Semolina/Kessel Run." Let's just consider the bewilderingly pretty, acoustic-strummed, and vocally harmonized "O.B. 1," one of To the Innocent 's numerous high points.
		Rob Crow hasn't stopped being the quirkiest pop writer ever to put intense, jagged, and complex rhythmic guitar-rock where his mouth is. Thingy still juxtaposes fuzz-washed, syncopated verse with warm-toned arpeggio breakdowns.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/t/thingy/to-the-innocent.shtml (795 words)

	Rob Crow — “My Room Is a Mess” (printable version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A complex solo excursion is made by Rob Crow, leader of several San Diego bands including current indie favorite Pinback.
		Crow’s lyrics are mostly acerbic takes on religion, the workplace and life’s trials, but he’s also capable of joyousness: “Last Bus From the Che” is a wonderful encapsulation of watching a show by a band you love.
		Several songs are a bit interchangeable, but Crow has such a memorable, distinctive sound that you’ll pull “Room” out of the stack when you need to hear his singular songs.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=56173 (151 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Heavy Vegetable: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Rob Crow was the singer and guitarist of Heavy Vegetable, a band that showed promise with each of the four tracks on the EP A Bunch of Stuff (The Way Out Sound, 1993), particularly Doesn't Mean Shit, and then redefined progressive hardcore on The Amazing Undersea Adventures Of Aqua Kitty And Friends (Cargo, 1994).
		Rob Crow recorded the "lo-fi" Lactose Adept (Cargo, 1996) along the same style and then Spotlight On Optiganally Yours (Cargo, 1997), a bizarre experiment with a keyboard called "optigan" in collaboration with Pea Hix.
		Rob Crow's talent is undeniable, but he seems determined to scatter it and waste it in the most grotesque manner.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol5/heavyveg.html (984 words)

	COOL´EH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I was flipping through my notes beforehand, trying to make this more than just another interview Rob Crow was obliged to do with some no name person trying to be his friend.
		Their music, self-described as melancholia rock, is haunting, in that much of it reminds me and probably everyone else who listens to them of memory's blue and gold colors of love.
		Rob, who's been playing music since he was a child, plays just about any instrument he can get his hands on.
	www.coolehmag.com /issue3_sounds.htm (732 words)

	Rob White aka Anton Corvus: In his own write.......... - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Of course crow, the Rev and Lou are thinly disguised
		Crow, the ball is STILL in your court.
		Reply Crow, the ball is STILL in your court.
	p080.ezboard.com /f1lifefrm1.showNextMessage?topicID=1875.topic (19817 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Rob Crow: My Room Is a Mess
		With My Room Is a Mess, Crow pours the sounds of his numerous projects past and present (Heavy Vegetable, Pinback, and Alpha Males, to name a few) into a blender and serves up a little of everything.
		Perhaps he should have let the blender run a little longer, though, as the album is less like a salsa dip and more like a trip to the salad bar, with the diverging tastes partitioned into separate songs instead of being chopped up and mixed together for a totally new flavor.
		Crow's more obvious stylistic quirks appear in a few of the filler tracks but don't really channel into the rest of the material.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1061064763208793 (393 words)

	Optiganally Yours presents: Exclusively Talentmaker!
		Crow has to write around the Optigan's capabilities and limitations: one key can summon up a waltz-time string quartet, a funky drummer or a cackling Les Baxter-style monkey, all with that great scratchy-old-record sound, but it can only handle about eight different chords.
		You guess that Rob Crow and Pea Hix, the Optigan maestros here, found their model hidden at the back of some childhood cupboard one stoned aftemoon and decided to, hey, see what it could do.
		Rob Crow and co-conspirator Pea Hix, for reasons known only to themselves, have chosen to shun the use of reliable contemporary samplers in order to embrace this humble and archaic gizmo, which is, by their own admission, hopelessly impractical on almost every level.
	www.optigan.com /spotlighton.html (2011 words)

	Rob Crow
		Crow is uniquely able to provide technical design services to churches.
		Crow was a member of the senior management team at In Touch Ministries for more than a decade.
		Crow’s tenure, the In Touch television program achieved and maintained its position as the most watched devotional program in the U.S. He is an accomplished producer in both large multi-camera events and with small field production crews.
	www.pwadesign.com /Corvus2.htm (229 words)

	Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - Rob Crow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Most people know Rob Crow as the guy behind the avant-pop (or prog-pop, or emo, or whatever) band Pinback (not to mention his involvement in at least five or six other bands, including Optiganally Yours, Heavy Vegetable, and Thingy).
		Apparently, all of Crow’s involvements in other projects still haven’t given him enough outlets for all his creative juices, because My Room is a Mess is Crow’s third solo album, and his first in seven years.
		It certainly seems serious, and Crow does the style surprisingly well (down to the chugging guitars and double-tracked vocals), even going into a speedy breakdown in the last minute of the track.
	www.adequacy.net /reviews/c/robcrow.shtml (573 words)

	The Rob Crow fan site
		Pinback released their Fall 2007 tour to help push their new album, Autumn of the Seraphs, which will be released 2007-09-11.
		Rob took a break from reading the inane diatribe on the Yahoo Pinback group from all of the folks who downloaded Autumn of the Seraphs early to say:
		Rob has a few solo shows lined up for the rest of this month.
	www.functionbad.com /robcrow (576 words)

	Opus // Music // Rob Crow - My Room Is A Mess
		He is a lo-fi musician self-recording in hi-fi, and his records show that those who have the desire really can coax polish from a track recorded in one's bedroom, though given the self-deprecation of this project he might disagree.
		In moments, Crow isn't above poking fun at himself or the pop game; "Jedi Outcast" reveals his inner nerd, a rogue heavy metal fuzz complete with the speed metal solo slathered over with Star Wars references and a quote by Yoda.
		All the while, we almost forget that Crow is a master musician, spinning complex beats around his simple lyrics, changing tempo and dynamic level in assorted ways that make sense.
	www.opuszine.com /music/review.html?reviewID=702 (555 words)

	Soul Shine Magazine : Pinback Wants to Know - Where’s the Fans?
		It was almost as if a shy Rob was holding back until he had time to court the mob on the floor.
		Rob Crow became more adventurous on the guitar as the night wore on, occasionally breaking into a rare solo as the band took a backseat to his dazzling display of string dancing.
		Crow and Smith seemed to be having a good time on stage, occasionally rocking out, but with the audience mostly in a trance from the magical Pinback spell, it certainly had to be draining under the hue of red lights.
	www.soulshine.ca /reviews/liveReview.php?lrid=90 (636 words)

	Sponic Zine - Article/Interview - Pinback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If Rob Crow were a cast member on a reality TV show, he would likely be labeled the nerd of the group.
		Rob Crow might be that guy, at least relative to the rest of our glossy, vapid pop culture, but he’s far from a stereotype.
		Pinback is Crow's collaboration with friend and fellow San Diego resident Zach Smith (aka Armistead Burwell IV), as well as his best-known musical project.
	www.sponiczine.com /article_detail.asp?id=895 (1817 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Rob Crow *
		Everything in between is the same comparatively inoffensive thing — man-and-a-guitar songs, sometimes with more instruments, sometimes lasting longer than a minute and a half, sometimes not — which begins to take on an irritating blandness before ten minutes have elapsed.
		Not once is that the case on Room ; it's not that the songs are deprived of the opportunity to stretch out and expand, it's that they were never endowed with much effort or singularity in the first place.
		Once again, the semantics of the album title tell more than they should: this is a textbook example of bedroom pop, and Crow's bedroom is certainly a mess.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/902 (444 words)

	[UZINE] 00.01 [the Tin Foil Crow issue] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hear how Crow & co. break every Golden Pop Rule in the Book, how their songs sound compressed and dense, while they are full of holes at the same time, how they seemingly randomly introduce little spurts, and yet never ever lose track of the melody.
		ROB: Zach and I have been friends for years (there were several 3 Mile Pilot - Heavy Vegetable - Powerdresser shows, and I hold each memory of them deep in my heart) and we had been batting around the idea of trying to write stuff together for a while.
		ROB: The smell of cracked rubber on a broken joystick, the thrill of spending three hours turning over "Asteroids", the intensity of a 3 a.m.
	www.dma.be /p/ultra/uzine/0001.htm (2810 words)

	Ace Fu Records :: V 3.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		My Room Is A Mess, Crow’s third solo effort is a nice blend of the familiar styles expressed in his other projects with a couple of surprises.
		Crow's gift is his knack for subtlety, which he rides endlessly on To the Innocent.
		Featuring Rob Crow of Pinback, Optiganally Yours constructs their sound around the Optigan, a keyboard produced by Mattel in the early and mid-70s which stores its bizarre and varied sounds on a series of celluloid optical discs.
	www.acefu.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=9&topic=&allstories=1 (789 words)

	Mundane Sounds
		Rob Crow is one of California’s wackiest and most talented exports, and that’s no small accomplishment in a state that has given rock the likes of Zappa, Beefheart, and Caroliner, amongst others.
		Like most other prolific songwriters, Crow has piles of songs that are too good to throw away yet can’t be easily inserted in the repertoires of already existing outlets.
		Throughout the album, Crow proves himself as a superb vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, layering harmonies and guitars on top of each other with a skill that most bedroom musicians don’t even approach.
	www.mundanesounds.com /printview.php?id=519 (941 words)

	Fuck the man! Smash his droids! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Songwriter, guitarist, and singer Rob Crow's sometimes hyperactive and often knotty chord sequences and rhythms take Thingy's listeners on another unpredictable ride.
		Crow uses pop culture as amusement and shield, a relief from boredom and a playground for imaginative resistance.
		Crow's lyrics are a degree less intense here, while Smith's approach is abstract, even cryptic at times.
	www.uwm.edu /~jenor/thingypinback.html (475 words)

	Rob Crow - My Room is a Mess (Absolutely Kosher)
		Then there are songs like "Never Alone" which he recorded a few years ago (and put up on the internet) as a joke boy band song.
		Or the death metal "Jedi Outcast." Rob Crow's unflinching refusal to play the part of the "cool guy" is endearing and when his dorky, fun side comes out interspersed between songs that showcase his unparalleled pop songwriting ability, it makes both sides feel more genuine.
		Having made a sizable stack of brilliant records, Rob Crow's popularity is growing, and his songwriting prowess is ever-expanding.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2003/crow.shtml (408 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| Calendar \| Solo Crow \| 2003-02-19
		Rob Crow is so San Diego, they may as well make him St. Doug.
		The ensuing label feeding frenzy was justified -- Pinback's elegant melodies, jazzy rhythms, and Crow and Smith's vocal trade-offs conspire to make the head nod and the brain blush, painting laid-back but visceral pop pictures framed by wiry, complex dynamics.
		It would appear that in Smith, Crow has found a worthy partner (and a lengthy name to balance out his own brisk one, should he so desire).
	www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2003-02-19/calendar/cal-see.html (590 words)

	Rob Crow: My Room is a Mess: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Obviously, if Rob gave a rat's ass about looking cool for all the kiddies, he'd shelve such excursions and offer more of the low-key acoustic four-track chicanery that fills the rest of this disc.
		Crow's ideas come fast and furious, and it's better to give them voice and let them hit the air than squelch them for fear of them sucking.
		Folks that want a more concise and less willfully idiosyncratic Rob Crow can listen to Pinback; the rest of us willing to dig for diamonds will do just fine getting dirty with this.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/crow_rob/my-room-is-a-mess.shtml (196 words)

	The Physics Experiment - Releases
		Playing on this are Lee Chapman (Drums), JFRE Robot Co.(Synthesizer), Rob Crow (Guitar), John Goff (Guitar), Will Goff (Synthesizer) and Jason Soares (Guitar).
		Multiple tracks were then later added by Rob Crow and Jason Soares and put into a cohesive pattern.
		In the middle of the track was inserted a recording of birds recorded at the entrance to the Carlsbad Caverns.
	www.theexperiment.org /physics/gravity.html (638 words)

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