PINK MOUNTAINTOPS is the project of Steve McBean, the lead singer/ guitarist for Vancouver's legendary BLACK MOUNTAIN.

"Get Back" was recorded with producer Joe Cardamone, lead singer of ICARUS LINE, at Valley Recording Company in Burbank, CA and features performances from an amazing cast of musicians including: J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Gregg Foreman (Cat Power, Delta 72), Steve Kille (Dead Meadow), Annie Hardy (Giant Drag), and Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, The Fall, Cass McCombs).

Randal Dunn (SunnO))), Earth, Sun City Girls, Boris) mixed "Get Back" at Avast! Studios (Bikini Kill, Mudhoney, Christ On A Crutch, Soundgarden) in Seattle.

Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Danzig, Ramones, Slayer) mastered it in Laurel Canyon.

It's doubtful that Stephen McBean set out to make The Great Rock 'N' Roll Primer when he started conjuring the songs that would come to be PINK MOUNTAINTOPS' "Get Back".

Ask about the record itself and McBean will tell you about "Alleys, curbs, walls, and cigarette stained gig flyers.

An island on the Pacific coast. Fake British towns. Slayer posters. The beauty of youth.

It's about listening to "Driver's Seat" and "Guns of Brixton" and hotboxing the Duster." The number of platitudes in music hit critical mass years ago, and among those tropes is that annoying, inescapable mantra: rock 'n'roll is undefinable.

And yeah, sure, that'strue. It's different things to different people. It starts with guitars, maybe, and ends with a stage-dive, orspit, or feedback.

Rock 'n'roll is drugs, is rebellion, is youth, is sex, is cosmic. It's wanting more than you have.

Rock 'n'roll is butts and cigarette butts. And PINK MOUNTAINTOPS might not be the best-known band ever to make rock 'n' roll, but in "Get Back" they just might have written its scripture - an exploration and celebration of what, exactly, rock 'n'roll can be.

When the aliens do touch down and they don't know rock 'n'roll, you can play them "Get Back" start to finish, and that'll be all they need.