Features
Monday, April 29 2013
Keep It in Motion: An Interview with Guided by Voices' Tobin Sprout
Tobin Sprout has been one of the most important songwriting voices for a long while, part of Guided By Voices' "classic lineup" if you will. Now, with the band's fourth post-reunion album just getting released, Sprout talks to PopMatters about why he left the band to begin with, being inspired by Brian Epstein's death, and his surprising side-career with children's literature.
Friday, October 26 2012
Listening Ahead: Upcoming Releases for November
Before the release schedule becomes all about Christmas albums and deluxe box sets, November offers enough long-awaited albums and under-the-radar gems to hold you over for the holidays.
Monday, June 7 2010
New Theories of Everything Prompted by Guided by Voices Appreciation Night, or, Good News
Tonight I will go belly-up in some kind of mental cloud, a meandering consideration of what tribute shows are really about, and why Guided by Voices deserves one, and what they were really about -- and that will lead to thoughts about prophecy and nihilism and Ralph Waldo Emerson and postmodernism.
Reviews
Thursday, May 2 2013
Guided By Voices: English Little League
English Little League just misses greatness, but if it's not the best album they've put out since early 2012, it's certainly the most interesting, the most willing to take risks.
Thursday, June 14 2012
Guided By Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO
Guided By Voices are two-thirds of the way through their 2012 LP releases with Class Clown Spots a UFO, which is their best full-length in quite some time.
Thursday, January 12 2012
Guided By Voices: Let's Go Eat the Factory
Everything about this album -- from the murky sound to the youthful energy -- feels "classic", but in the end the material itself is merely solid.
Monday, October 18 2010
Guided by Voices: 13 October 2010 - Chicago
It wasn’t difficult to see that the primary thing that has made past shows great, Robert Pollard’s quirky personality, continues to permeate the most recent sets with greatness.
Monday, February 22 2010
The Devil Went Home and Puked: Robert Pollard's Rock Show
Sorry Guided By Voices fans, but there's no nice way to put it: this tedious, bewildering, and often unwatchable collage of rare home video footage of Dayton's favorite indie rock heroes is just flat out terrible.
Blogs
Friday, July 23 2010
Losing My Religion: Revealing the Hollow Reality of Lo-Fi
This whole lo-fi thing, in its current form, is an affectation—a performance, a pose, the indie community’s response to “Vogue”. And this upcoming Guided By Voices tour will only enhance the performative aspects of the supposedly authentic aesthetic they have been championed for canonizing.
