Guided by Voices News

I was picking through my collection of old CDs the other day and came across the 1996 Guided by Voices album Under the Bushes Under the Stars.

The airy lightness is with the song from the start, but that untethered feeling at the end is lovely, especially in the way Seelenluft simulates a slow, graceful ascension into the clouds.

Robert Pollard has a brand new band, so get ready to see about eight or nine release from an act called Boston Spaceships in the next four months.

We knew former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard was prolific, we just didn't know how far it extended.

The Hold Steady Want You To Stay Positive Friday June 20, 2008 @ 04:30 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff The Hold Steady Although a track from The Hold Steady 's last album referenced poet John Berryman's 1972 ...

As tipped here last month, Robert Pollard has formed a new band, Boston Spaceships, and plans to release its first album this fall.

Some things never change, like Robert Pollard 's instantly-recognizable British Invasion voice.

Call it cabin fever - or basement fatigue - but in the Midwest, musical eccentrics are prone to surliness.

Stop the presses. Robert Pollard, rock 'n' roll's most prolific songwriter over the last 20 years, releases an album today with only 10 songs.

What? From Guided by Voices' early lo-fi releases to their glossy, radio-chasing "professional" era, to the raucous frontman's solo demos, Robert Pollard has always had a knack for pop music whether it's caked ...

If you haven't already made it to Hatlen Theater to attend the Dept. of Theatre and Dance's sixth-annual UCSB New Plays Festival, you still have a chance.

With more than 1,000 recorded songs under his belt, Robert Pollard isn't one to waste time.

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“Almost a semi-prog rock record, although it's a pop record too. Kind of in the vein of Peter Gabriel's first solo album. It's a starting point.”

The ever-prolific ex-Guided By Voices leader Robert Pollard is taking on new artistic challenges this year as he prepares to launch his own record label -- Guided By Voices Inc. via Billboard.com

“I hopefully got better, communicate more than I'm hearing.”

The Hold Steady has finalized the track listing for its fourth album, "Stay Positive," Billboard.com has learned. via Billboard.com

Robert Pollard, the world's most productive human being, has set firm release dates all around for his cross-medium new material. via CMJ New Music Monthly

"My Valuable Hunting Knife," off 1995's Alien Lanes , caught Guided By Voices following up the surprise success of the previous year's Bee Thousand . via Aversion

“Like a Vibration,"visits the arena rock anthem, "Right Hand on My Heart”

The self released/self financed debut allowed the Athens, Georgia trio to be dubbed "the best un-signed band in America" by Rolling Stone Magazine . via Glide Magazine

“Dark Leaves Form a Thread", is about terror, depression, abandonment, and waitress fatigue. The closing track, a coherent (for Destroyer) character study about the ominous redemption of a "wasted”

Trouble in Dreams is a rad party to which actual people aren't invited, because its point is to lure muses out of Dan Bejar's imagination and into his bedroom: "A chorus is a thing that bears repeating/ And the ... via Pitchfork