The Living Pins

The Living Pins are an Austin supergroup made up of Carrie Clark (vocal/guitar Sixteen Deluxe), Pam Peltz (Daniel Johnston producer), Bobby Daniel (Fastball touring bass), and Kristy McInnis (drums in Kathy Valentine’s The Bluebonnets).

Carrie and Pam formed The Living Pins in the 90s Austin Music Scene depicted in the excellent oral history book, A Curious Mix of People, which includes Carrie’s wryly funny recollections of the period when Austin was shapeshifting from low-key college town into an oddly big deal. Playing mostly covers (T. Rex, The Kinks, Roxy Music), they cut their teeth as a band in the usual places like Electric Lounge, alongside their pals in Spoon, Fastball, Ed Hall, etc.

After almost two decades of band sabbatical, Pam and Carrie reconstituted The Living Pins and recorded their Freaky Little Monster Children EP in 2020 in an eastside warehouse during lockdown with Jeff Copas (bass Sixteen Deluxe) producing. The Onion/AV Club called the EP “both accessible and impossibly cool”.

They followed it up with two summertime singles produced by Chris “Frenchie” Smith (vocal/guitar Sixteen Deluxe), “Oh Yeah” and “Chateau” in 2022. Regarding “Oh Yeah”, music critic, Ned Raggett, said it’s “the kind of aggro flowing psych that makes me very, very happy” and Austin’s own KUTX picked it as one of their Favorite Songs of 2022. 2023’s Let It Be So EP caught the attention of Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon and Katy Krassner who gave ”Scorpion” a spin on their SiriusXM radio show WHOOOSH! and all four songs got tons of airplay on the renowned WTUL in New Orleans.

"Gold" and "108" are the first two singles to be released in 2025 off of their forthcoming album.