Happy Birthday Robert Pollard!

Celebrating Robert Pollard's birthday with a new GBV tune, songs from a show in 2019 along with some vintage footage.  

You can pre-order GBV's soon-to-be-released 39th album Nowhere To Go But Up – their 3rd for 2023! – right here. 

One For The Weekend: Tobin Sprout

Watch the video for the remastered version of Tobin Sprout's "Small Parade" off Demos and Outtakes 2 double LP available here.

R.I.P. Beatle Bob Metonis, 1953-2023

Sadly, St. Louis superfan Beatle Bob – a fixture a music festivals and concerts – has passed away. He'll be greatly missed.

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Riverfront Times Beatle Bob, St. Louis dancing legend, has died

Louder Than War R.I.P. Beatle Bob, 1953-2023

One For The Weekend: Guided By Voices

GBV's "Dance of Gurus" is off their new album It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! out today. 

Here's the scoop...

It's been just a few months since GBV's faux rock opera Earth Man Blues garnered 4-star and 5-star reviews, with Rolling Stone proclaiming that the album "may be their best in decades" and it "squarely hits all the marks that make Guided by Voices great—again and again and again.”

"Again and again and again" is perhaps GBV's credo, with Robert Pollard’s never-ending supply of fascinating and supremely catchy rock. Just when you think you've got them pinned down, album number 34 opens with bizarre percussion, mariachi trumpets, strings and acoustic guitar. The adventurous spirit pervades yet another killer album from the greatest and most versatile GBV line-up. The golden boys can do no wrong.  

Hooky singles "My (Limited) Engagement," "High In The Rain," and "Dance of Gurus" – check the video below – intermingle with occasionally dark lyrics and the oddest of GBV oddballs, the ridiculous "Razor Bug," "Psycho House," and the "Maintenance Man Of The Haunted House." The horns and strings return intermittently, with "The Bells Get Out Of The Way" going full Burt Bacharach. It's Not Them is a creative tour-de-force full of surprises from the most prolific and captivating rock band on the planet. 

You can order GBV's It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! directly from Rockathon Records right here.  Check out GBV's upcoming tour dates with includes a Toronto stop at the Phoenix on December 17th following Aaron Dunkel's ace video for "Dance of Gurus" with photography by Michael Nigro. 

GUIDED BY VOICES 2021 TOUR

Fri, Oct 22 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MD SOLD OUT!

Sat, Oct 23 - College Street Music Hall - New Haven, CT

Fri, Nov 12 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL SOLD OUT!

Sat, Nov 13 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH SOLD OUT!

Fri, Dec 17 - Phoenix Concert Theatre- Toronto, ONT

Sat, Dec 18 - Mr. Smalls - Pittsburgh, PA

Fri, Dec 31 - Brooklyn Made - Brooklyn, NY

Fri, Jan 14 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY

Sat, Jan 15 - Royale.-  Boston

*** NOTE: Boston will be an early show! 6pm doors, 7pm-9:30pm on stage

Fri, March 18 - Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI

Sat, March 19 - Fine Line - Minneapolis, MN

Sat, March 26 - Neumos - Seattle, WA

Sun, March 27 - Revolution Hall - Portland, OR

Tue, March 29 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA

Wed, March 30 - The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA

Fri, April 1 - Teragram Ballroom - Los Angeles, CA

Sat, April 2 - Pappy & Harriets - Pioneertown, CA

Happy Birthday Robert Pollard!

Raising a glass to Bob Pollard on his day with a new Guided By Voices tune "Cohesive Scoops" off the 100 Dougs EP.

Guided By Voices to play Lee's Palace on October 25

Tickets will be on sale June 29th via Ticketfly for GBV's triumphant return to Toronto in October. Check the clip below. 

Guided By Voices soundcheck 1994

Here are two songs from the soundcheck for Guided By Voices' show at Hara Arena in the lovely Dayton suburb of Trotwood, Ohio on March 18, 1994. This was bassist Dan Toohey's last GBV show. Also, the dude in the maroon shirt (to the right of guitarist Mitch Mitchell) is future GBV guitarist, Nate Farley, who was the guitar tech that night. As it turns out, the tunes they played, Pimple Zoo and Gold Star For Robot Boy, were also the first two songs they performed that evening as you can see from the set list above. 

For similar GBVness, look into the wonderfully stitched-together Bob Pollard DVD, The Devil Went Home and Puked, available for purchase online at http://rockathonrecords.com/video.html


Gold Star For Robot Boy



Pimple Zoo