Tuesday, November 25, 2025

About Us

We're two guys from Chicago who started this little band back in 2010. We're very passionate about the music we write, and we really don't know what we'd be doing with our lives if music didn't fuel our hearts. OUR...
Hey folks!  We don't have a bunch to say today.  We'll let our newest music video for 'Let's Make Noise' do the talking.  It's up on the secret page of our web site RIGHT NOW!  All you have to...
Hey there Pinto and the Bean friends!  So, we recently discovered the ease of using Blogger and we'll be posting our future blogs right from here.  So, summer is almost over and we haven't said too much since the...
Life is, for the most part, pretty unpredictable.  As much as you're sure you have a grasp on the future, the unexpected is to be expected at any moment.  You could meet the love of your life on the...

Halloween Chicago

It's Friday night - Halloween Chicago can get pretty nuts. Gotta love this city for how festive it gets. Pretty damn windy out tonight too. What a perfect eve for people to get out of their...
Last Thursday night was a blast and thanks to everyone who came out for Ivan's drunken birthday (very drunken birthday)!  Here are some pics from the evening.  If you want to see more, just click here . So, as you may or...

Rock The House With Us On NYE!

We're hoping you had a great holiday.  We spent time being super lazy the few days before and after Christmas. That's sort of the point of the holidays, right?  Ivan made pozole for a group of friends who devoured...
Our ‘Let’s Make Noise’ music video is HERE!  The specific video release date information is listed below.  Nick Palazzo, our director and good friend, is just working on the final touches as we write this.  We realize many...
One wintery day in 2009, Ivan was headed off to O'Hare airport to jump on a plane to visit family for Christmas; right before he took off, he said something along the lines of "why don't we start up...
So we were just looking through an old hard drive and found a Christmas song we wrote almost two years ago. This was well before Pinto and the Bean even existed. Listening to it... awkward...is that the right way...