By: Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard Appears on: Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department I don’t know how to properly explain it, but there’s a certain kind of magic that occurs when Robert Pollard teams up with Doug Gillard. You can hear it all over the Guided By Voices records that feature Doug as […]
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Cold Joker
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Stomping Grounds With an output as tremendous as that of the Guided By Voices catalog, it can become a little overwhelming at times to keep up with all of Robert Pollard’s solo and side projects. I believe it’s totally forgivable to not listen to everything he churns out as soon as […]
Bad Love Is Easy To Do
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Cool Planet Ah, the reunion albums…each one a tall glass of refreshing new songs, full to the brim with exactly the kind of tasty hooks we’d all come to expect from Bob and the “classic lineup” of Guided By Voices. Not only that, these six albums more than proved […]
Redmen And Their Wives
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars, Live from Austin, TX It was during their “final” tour, in 2004, that Guided By Voices were asked to perform on the live concert television series Austin City Limits. The entire performance—full of classic tunes as well as several from their latest album, Half […]
The Best Of Jill Hives
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue During the Universal Truths and Cycles and Earthquake Glue tours, I managed to attend quite a few Guided By Voices shows. I didn’t follow them around the country, but I did head out of state a few times to see them. During this time, Nate Farley and Doug […]
Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: From A Compound Eye On New Year’s Eve 2004, the world ended. Or at least, that’s how it felt to some of us die-hard fans of Robert Pollard and his band, Guided By Voices, when they played what was announced to be their final show (which was released in its […]
