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Led by benevolent dictator Robert Pollard , lo-fi kings Guided by Voices are THE treasure-trove band for music nerds, as Pollard-who has nearly 1,000 published songs to his name-was musically incontinent when it came to releasing records.

Doug Gillard @ Knitting Factory in 2008 Baby Gramps 's 5-day NYC run ends tonight at Zebulon.

The Year : 1994 The Album : Guided by Voices, Bee Thousand Who It Influenced : Jay Reatard, The Thermals, The Strokes, Titus Andronicus, Times New Viking, Deerhunter Once upon a time there was an elementary school-teacher from Dayton, Ohio, named Robert Pollard.

The album: Haven't Slept All Year The spin: Cleveland-based Cobra Verde has been a major draw in the Midwest for years.

I always have the best interviews with Zach Campbell . The guitarist and singer of Lawrence's Rooftop Vigilantes was working the door at the Jackpot on a slow Monday night when I popped into to discuss his side gig in a Guided By Voices tribute band.

Over two decades, Dayton-based Guided by Voices produced a huge catalog of British Invasion-influenced, often home-recorded rock songs, put on notoriously raucous live shows and drew both critical acclaim and legions of loyal fans.

One former Guided By Voices member in particular probably has the best children's book author name in the business: Mr.

Experimental rock group On the Tundra is exploring uncharted territory. The strictly-no-vocals band was launched in the summer of 2008 when guitarist Mark Leahey moved to Eugene to finish up his degree at the University.

Art-rock legends old and new lead to a weekend featuring a lot of dark and disturbing roots music.

A transplant to Louisville, Mark Kramer is originally from Dayton, Ohio, and was actively involved in the scene there.

Boston Spaceships, The Planets Are Blasted As with many strains of British pop music, the efforts of Ohioan Robert Pollard, former Guided By Voices front man, though brilliant, can sometimes come across a bit mannered.

Record Store Day, an annual event that promotes mom and pop retailers in the U.S. and overseas, has been scheduled for Saturday, April 18.

The AV Club tries to put out the definitive word on power pop , but fails to mention The Plimsouls, Redd Kross, Matthew Sweet, and many others: Next steps: For modern bands who've followed in the Shoes' shoes, you'd do well to pick up nearly any album by Canadian retro-power-pop act Sloan - in particular, 1996's One Chord To Another , where the ...

Robert Pollard has another band you'll soon be linking to his Wikipedia entry. The onetime Guided By Voices front man links up with Robert Davies of The Moles for Cosmos.

America has certainly embraced the idea of "Change" in 2009. Robert Pollard, however, has not -- and we can't thank him enough! "Red Cross Vegas Night" , one of the best track off his just-released new solo ...

The candidates are: 1) Ryan Adams 2) Robert Pollard 3) Bill Mallonee 4) Bruce Springsteen And the winner/loser is ... Robert Pollard.

Introducing The Accessibility Meter, ranking new tunes in order of how quickly you start moving your head, down to the downright inscrutable.

Allan Carl Newman lives two lives. As Carl Newman he leads The New Pornographers, a perennial hipster favorite that never sounds as good as you'd hope.

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart," literary critic George Steiner once wrote.