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Tuesday Jul 7 | 411mania.com

Dancing About Architecture 07.07.09

Dancing About Architecture 07.07.09 Posted by Ian Wright on 07.07.2009 Michael Jackson , new albums from Lou Barlow, The Apples In Stereo, Boston Spaceships, a free MP3 from a Sigur Ros side project and more.

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Related Topix: The Apples in Stereo, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Nashville Scene

Teenage FBI Perform Guided by Voices' Alien Lanes at The Basement

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Nashville, TN, Nashville Metro

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Brooklynvegan

What's going on Tuesday?

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

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Related Topix: Climax Golden Twins, Ambient, Pop/Rock

Fri Jun 12, 2009

About.com

From the Vaults Friday: Guided by Voices, Bee Thousand

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Dayton, OH, Dayton Metro, The Kinks

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Palm Beach Post

Review: Cobra Verde stretches to varying strengths

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Fri May 22, 2009

The Pitch

Turning away brohams, a Rooftop Vigilante gears up for tonight's Guided By Voices tribute.

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.

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Sun May 17, 2009

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Musician guided to voice as writer

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tobin Sprout, Mackinac Island, MI, Leland, MI

Wed May 13, 2009

Paste Magazine

Guided By Voices' Tobin Sprout Releases Children's Book

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon May 04, 2009

Oregon Daily Emerald

Non-vocal experimental rock group hits Eugene

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Apr 20, 2009

WRC Washington DC Channel 4

Music Snob's Concert Picks: Week of April 20

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, April, The Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Indie, Yo la Tengo, Pavement

Fri Apr 17, 2009

Buzzgrinder

Remember Brainiac?

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Brainiac, Dayton, OH, Dayton Metro, Kramer, The Records

Wed Apr 01, 2009

Salt Lake City Weekly

Boston Spaceships & Trail of Dead

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Robert Pollard, Indie

Wed Mar 25, 2009

Radio & Records

Artists Support Mom And Pop Shops On Record Store Day

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Panic! at the Disco, Country, Steve Earle

Thu Mar 19, 2009

Lost In Translation

Gateway To Geekery: Power Pop

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 ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Plimsouls, The Shoes, Sloan

Sat Mar 14, 2009

Aversion

Robert Pollard Starts Yet Another Band

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sun Feb 08, 2009

Spin

Exclusive Download: Robert Pollard Visits "Vegas"

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 ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Voices, Jazz

Fri Feb 06, 2009

Paste Magazine

Artist Most in Need of an Editor/Sane Voice of Reason to Say 'Ack!...

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue Jan 27, 2009

Esquire

Five New Songs We Enthusiastically Endorse

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

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Watches, Music, Entertainment

Fri Jan 16, 2009

The Courier-Journal

What rocks, what doesn't

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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The New Pornographers

Thu Jan 15, 2009

Dayton Daily News

Chicago band explores the songs of Guided By Voices

"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.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Dayton, OH, Music, Entertainment

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