the nina the pinta

Lame Biography:

"The market of rock and roll has been saturated with makeup wearing cry-babies and stiff indie-wannabes. It seems that every Edina 15-year old now wields a Les Paul junior and is learning how to play straight eighth notes really fast. Is this what rock and roll has become? Ask that to emerging locals the nina the pinta; they might throw you into a drumset. Abrasive and raw, TNTP's punchy dance rock references similar riffs to Pretty Girls Makes Graves, Hot Snakes, or The Hives, while alotting for a passionate live show. Singer Alan Erbach's register is high and raspy, belting half-hit notes over spiraling guitar melodies and a foundation of lengthy Korg notes. The band has continued writing and recording since they debuted their EP, Die Like A Nova last May, although it will be difficult for them to produce a recording that captures their energetic, almost violent live show." - The ONION Newsletter



"Songs like "Blind Children Marching" combine the urgent yell-sing of post-post-punk bands such as the aforementioned Pretty Girls Make Graves with the straightforward fuzzy guitars redolent of the neo-garage rock bands who starting making noise around the early aughts. That's a lot of revivalism, but the hooky, angular nature of The Nina! The Pinta!'s songwriting still easily can capture one's attention in the right setting--sulking in your bedroom, with your headphones on, for example." --MinneapolisFuckingRocks.blogspot.com



"Confidence is one thing that should never come into question for The Nina The Pinta. The band's vigorous and brisk debut has guts in spades; it's the Minneapolis quintet's creative muscles that could stand to be juiced with a shot in the arm. What had initially piqued my interest about this Land o'Lakes outfit was their hunger to just kick ass in the simplest of ways. There are a lot of groups out there right now wanting to re-invent the wheel with studio experimentation and elaborate performance concepts, and that's all fine to an extent. Every decade needs a certain percentage of pretentious experimentation, affording the Animal Collectives and the Battleses a means to creep out through the crowd and point back to the Soft Boys and King Crimson in explanation. That is how independent music keeps from going stale. But come on - everyone's got it in their library, but does anyone still listen to Fun House? Did we forget how good it felt to blast "Die, All Right!" eight years ago?." --LostAtSea.net



"The final episode of the debut season from the local Twin Cities-oriented music TV show Northern Outpost is now online, and for this week’s episode they’re in the Owl Recording Studio in Uptown dishing the dirt with The Nina! The Pinta!, a post-hardcore band that I was fortunate enough to personally see last Wednesday at Fucked Up’s Triple Rock show. Among the other bands that opened for F’d Up’s immense set, The Nina The Pinta’s punchy, abrasive, post-hardcore clearly stood out. Contrasted against the other openers lo-fi punk, TNTP’s the sounds muscular set were as catchy and danceable as they were dissonant and pissed off." --Mind Inversion



NORTHERN OUTPOST - Episode 8 - The Nina The Pinta - 4/10/09 from Northern Outpost on Vimeo.