Christmas A Go Go!
December 20, 2024
“This one's soooo cool! The Living Pins (Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz) have released a Christmas song every year since 2021. And with this delightful 'Christmas Here to Stay' they reach a temporary shoegazy highlight. Good luck topping this one next year!”
Mistletunes
December 13, 2024
“This Austin, TX band offers for 2024 a cool lo-fi slow-boiling indie-pop ballad in which the singer requests a holiday gift. Not what you'd expect to hear from an Austin band, but that just adds to the fun. A look at their Bandcamp page reveals previous Christmas tunes, 2022's "Christmas Tree" and 2021's "London Town (Happy Holidays).”
The Cosmic CLash
September 4, 2024
Live music preview: SIMS Saturdays rolls on September 7 with Forever Changes, The Living Pins and The John-Pauls
“… After being well-received by the press, the band continued on, recording and releasing five more singles following Freaky Little Monster Children culminating in another EP release, Let It Be So which dropped in November 2023 and was recorded with Frenchie Smith at his Bubble Recording Studio. Like past SIMS Saturdays guests, Rosie Flores and Mike Molnar, The Living Pins represent a simpler time in Austin when the living was truly easy and the music was the soundtrack to an emerging Austin scene.”
Aeroplane 20 BEST TRACKS of The Month - January 2024 Turn Up The Volume
January 31, 2024
“These rockin’ amazons – Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz – have known each other since
the mid-90s, they played in different bands together and decided to give it a go again with some friends.
Enter Aeroplane, a piece from their rawk-ing EP Let It Be So.”
Aeroplane Pick of the Day Turn Up The Volume
January 6, 2024
“If you’re still celebrating New Year, you really should add this titillating track to your party playlist. Imagine 60s British glam rock legends T. Rex and American sassy duo Royal Trux jamming together. Aeroplane grooves and moves with pithy panache and steaming swagger. Add the saucy and sensual duet vocals, and we have ourselves a sonic winner. Party on, folks.”
Let It Be So EP premiere in It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine
November 9, 2023
“The recording personnel for the ‘Let It Be So’ EP is A-List all the way. Legendary producer Chris 'Frenchie’ Smith (who’s also a Sixteen Deluxe bandmate with Carrie) was at the production helm once again … Joey Shuffield on drums and Bobby Daniel on bass are also top notch pros … Like singer and guitarist Pam Peltz says, ‘We are at home in this, specifically with this incarnation of musicians. It feels very natural. It feels like it’s just in our DNA. We’re not even thinking about rocking. We just do it.’”
Let It Be So EP premiere in Spill Magazine
November 9, 2023
“Say hello to the new Let It Be So EP by The Living Pins. Singer and guitarist (and Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee) Carrie Clark, has this to say about the four new songs, “I think that we keep riding on that 70s FM radio vibe. We all grew up listening to FM radio, and we love the way that when you listen to everything from T. Rex to AC/DC to Slade to ELO and ABBA, there’s a fullness of sound and a wave that envelopes you and that can take you out of your present moment.”
Living Pins on Austin Music Minute/KUTX
November 3,2023
“If Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz look familiar, it’s because you recognize the badasses in the house. Clark played guitar and provided vocals for Sixteen Deluxe, Peltz for Ursa Major, back in the mid ’90s. The proof is in the shreds that The Living Pins delivers. It started as a side project that almost faded away, but in the fall of 2020 the duo got into a studio with producer Jeff Copas and created their debut EP Freaky Little Monster Children (2021), hailed as “a trip, and it’s a journey” by Trebelzine, and “…impossibly cool” by AV Club. Multiple levels of cool, actually, mixing ’60s psych and ’90s alt.-rock riffs in raw, crunchy fashion. Big sound, big fun.
The band released the new singles “Aeroplane” (featured on today’s AMM) and “Scorpion” just ahead of their forthcoming EP Let It Be So, out next week.”
-Laurie Gallardo, Host of Austin Music Minute
Living Pins – “Scorpion“
Ocober 19, 2023
“Say hello to the new Let It Be So EP by The Living Pins. Singer and guitarist Carrie Clark, (and Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee) has this to say about the four new songs, ‘I think that we keep riding on that 70s FM radio vibe. We all grew up listening to FM radio. And we love the way that when you listen to everything from T. Rex to AC/DC to Slade to ELO and ABBA, there’s a fullness of sound and a wave that envelopes you and that can take you out of your present moment. On this EP, ‘Love Is 4’ and ‘Aeroplane’ are more on the AC/DC side, like if Marc Bolan and Rob Halford were hanging out. And then ‘Scorpion’ has some Paisley Underground, you know, Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade, woven into it … plus it’s a story-telling song. And those were really big on FM radio. So it’s like a 70s story song with these beautiful affected guitars that come from our own live music experience. And then ‘Starlight’ is just fun.’”
-Static Multimedia
Living Pins – “Aeroplane“
September 26,2023
“‘Aeroplane,’ the kind of straightforward rock and roll track that is all too uncommon these days. The band hits with a stomping beat, big soaring guitars, and fierce vocals that find Carrie and Pam leaning into shifty vocal interplay and harmonies. The occasional slash of guitar shredding cuts through it all. Taken as a whole, these ingredients make for a truly rousing rock and roll anthem that could command an arena stage as much as it could a bar room.”
—Glide Magazine
KUTX Our Favorite Songs of 2022 Living Pins – “Oh Yeah“
December 5, 2022
“Last year, this duo, featuring veterans from Austin 90’s outfits Sixteen Deluxe and Ursa Major, scored with their Freaky Little Monster Children EP. This year it’s a double A-side single (which received international airplay). With fun, smart lyrics set to psychedelic garage rock dabbed with a touch of T. Rex, “Oh Yeah” jumped out of the radio with authority and a wink.”
—Jody Denberg, Host
“Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz are revered Austin music scene veterans, and as Living Pins, they channel classic pop rock sounds brimming with assuredness and melodic hooks… the song rocks back and forth with this swaggering bravado, with little hints of 90s pop rock ringing true.”
— Nathan Lankford, Chateau video premiere on Austin Town Hall, October 20,2022
“...it’s just full of joy, the joy of making music. And I applaud it for that. I really do. It’s a great track.”
“It’s just brilliant! Absolutely brilliant.”
”very fun lyric. I’m really happy to play it. It’s great.”
—Simon Le Bon, WHOOOSH! on Sirius XM, August 24, 2022
12 August 2022
The Living Pins | “Oh Yeah”
“The kind of aggro flowing psych that makes me very, very happy… Hearing the bright harmonies and the solid sway of the breaks puts me in a good place and I want to hear more ASAP.”
-Ned Raggett, Some Weekly Music Thoughts #47
8 August 2022
Austin, TX band The Living Pins premiere a new single today via The Big Takeover. The song, “Oh Yeah” is part of a new EP of perfect summertime tunes. This one features a constant buzzing groove and cheery vocals akin to the British Invasion meets Britpop. As the band explains to Big Takeover:
“The two songs that The Living Pins are releasing this summer are like two different people. ‘Oh Yeah’ is the naughty rebel rock ’n’ roller and ‘Chateau’ is the sparkly FM radio song that even your mom could listen to. It’s The Stones versus The Beatles. Or Oasis versus Blur.”
June 1, 2022
“The Living Pins is the union of the lead singers from these two groups–Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz–who came together for the pure fun of jamming and have recently reconvened to present two new singles, “Chateau” and “Oh Yeah’, the former of which Rock & Roll Globe is proud to premiere this morning on the site. songs were recorded at The Bubble Studios with Sixteen Deluxe alum Chris ‘Frenchie’ Smith, who helped the duo attain the AOR-cum-SST maneuvers Pam and Carrie create in their present form…”