Guided by Voices News

The members of the Whigs don't have to reveal their age in conversation. It's evident that the Athens, Ga., trio grew up during the early '90s. Such defunct early Clinton-era indie rock heroes as the quirky Pavement and the melodic but offbeat Guided By Voices made an obvious impression on the pop-rock group.

The Product: Until someone comes along and decides to do the definitive ala Anvil documentary on Guided by Voices and their cockrock inspired founder, Robert "Bob" Pollard, we will have to be happy with occasional video flights of fancy from the former grade school teacher turned pop song genius himself.

Those well-meaning dipsomaniacs Guided By Robots are at it again. On Saturday , the five-piece appears in the basement of the Anza Club for its seventh year in a row of Guided By Voices covers, karaoke, and Robert Pollard - "inspired feats of drinking.

Welcome to a week of fancy reissues and box sets. Everyone's been abuzz about Nirvana 's Bleach reissue.

Dayton, Ohio's indie rock heroes Guided by Voices - who just happen to sport one of rock music's finest all-time band names - may not garner much mention if any when the conversation turns to '80s music, but that doesn't mean it's excusable to ignore the group's groundbreaking, influential work of its late-'80s formative stage.

Ever since solo artist and former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard arrived in the late '80s with GBV's first album of note, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia , he's been the undisputed king of arcane titles.

They called it quits five years ago, but Guided By Voices is still releasing songs by the hundreds.

As mentioned in last week's Time Tunnel, Julie Doiron and The Wooden Stars ' collaboration began its four-week chart dominance, so this look back at the campus chart for Sept.

Alice in Chains, "Black Gives Way to Blue" The most surprising part of "Black Gives Way to Blue," the latest Alice in Chains record, is that it was released last week - not in 1996.

It's probably not fair to call The Pains of Being Pure at Heart a lo-fi band. Certainly, the New York group 's self-titled album sounds appropriately hissy and fuzzy.

The debate between signing to a major label versus remaining on an independent label will soon become a moot point, but historically it still holds much relevance.

Ambulance Ltd. is the five-piece rock ensemble founded in New York City in the early aughts.

Steven Soderbergh has said that his 3D musical remake of Cleopatra will be "a total party". The Traffic and Ocean's Eleven filmmaker is attached to make Cleo with Catherine Zeta Jones in the title role and using music composed by US indie band Guided By Voices.

Ladybug Transistor opening for Of Montreal at MHOW in April Geronimo , who in the midst of a short tour , join up with Pollution and Hex Machine at Death By Audio tonight.

It's hard to believe it, but Robert Pollard's been putting out bazillions of songs a year for more than two decades now.

The music community from the Midwest have a deep affection for classic pop: a combination of influences that range from the initial British Invasion of the a 60s, to bubblegum pop , to Memphis' Big Star.

Does art make a difference? Sure. My entire life was discovered, organised and defined by the art I liked as a teenager.

Does art make a difference? Sure. My entire life was discovered, organised and defined by the art I liked as a teenager.

Does art make a difference? Sure. My entire life was discovered, organised and defined by the art I liked as a teenager.

Assjack Death-metal band founded and fronted by Hank III . Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occasional blazing insight and tender observation, The Ruminant Band marks a further crystallization of singer/songwriter Eric Johnson's own melodic instincts and ...