By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake For whatever reason, I’m often tricked into thinking “Amusement Park Is Over” is the last track on August By Cake. It seems to have that kind of melancholy, bittersweet tone to it that makes for a good album closer, but maybe it’s just the word “over” in […]
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Steppenwolf Mausoleum
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven What is this murky, abysmal sound enveloping your soul? Oh, it’s just “Steppenwolf Mausoleum,” one of the highlights of the 2017 Guided By Voices album, How Do You Spell Heaven. Fear not: the gloom will soon give way to crunchy guitar tone, blasting power chords […]
My Valuable Hunting Knife
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes, Tigerbomb When I started this website, I originally had the intention of focusing on the newer works of Robert Pollard since so much of the catalog from 2004 and prior already had guitar tabs somewhere on the internet. Then I began to realize how dissatisfied I was […]
Poor Substitute
By: Ricked Wicky Appears on: Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair Not to go off on a tirade, but if you’ve read one critic’s review of any Robert Pollard musical project, you’ve pretty much read them all. Here’s a drinking game for you: gather a bunch of these reviews, start reading through them, and down a shot […]
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 […]
