
(artist - song - album + purchase link :: extra info) Fitz and the Tantrums - Santa Stole My Lady - 73 & digital single Jmo - Santa, If You Do Exist - digital single Caitlin Rose with Keegan DeWitt - You Never Come Home For Christmas - digital single Mother Mother - Hit er Miss Christmas - digital single Camera Obscura - The Blizzard - digital single :: Jim Reeves cover Choir! Choir! [...]

after taking some time to listen to about 20-30 records over the past 2/3 days, i decided that there was still a bunch of great stuff that i didnt mention in my top 14.5 of the year. so, i came up with another 11 records that i think are more than deserving of more attention. i could have actually come up with another ten but felt that a solid 25.5 records was good enough. although, i may get bored an post the other ten records, but i doubt it. one thing that continues to sadden me is that lack of [...]
Let It Beard excels for the fact that it sprawls but also punches, that it feels both careful and ragged. As Robert Pollard's attention shifts, at least partly, back to Guided by Voices (who, post-comeback tour, have two studio LPs due next year), he has brought his trio Boston Spaceships to a close. The chief, but definitely not only vehicle for Pollard's creative impulses the past few years, Boston Spaceships consisted of Pollard, John Moen, and Chris Slusarenko. Their hallmarks were the use of older castoff Pollard songs and compact, energetic, tuneful pop-rock. All four...

Slothbear Cantor On Album Review ALBUM REVIEW: A Slothbear is what do you get when you mix some mammals and paint in Staten Island which forms the release they call Cantor On . Some may write this part of New York off as just a breeding ground for lap dance vixens but we won't be so narrow minded. We thought we heard something deeper when we featured them in our Crop-O-Singles over the summer and here we are proven right. They do have more moves than a Go-Go dancer! This [...]

A new installment of experimental rock, avant garde pop, freak folk, and electronic music (all free & legal). If you like the music, please check out the artists. Click Here to download ZIP file with all tracks [mp3], track listing, and cover art. 01 Boats - T.V. Scientist [mp3] (from Cannonballs, Cannonballs ) 02 Richard Swift - Whitman [mp3] (from Walt Wolfman ) 03 Zun Zun Equi - Fandango Fresh [mp3] (from Katang ) [...]

Género: Indie rock. El proyecto paralelo de Robert Pollard ( Guided By Voices ) con Boston Spacechips tiene nuevo single que forma parte de su último disco Let It Beard . Christmas Girl rebosa electricidad con unas cuerdas que se encaraman junto a la voz de Robert, hasta allí donde nuestra fibra indie rockera se transforma en cuero fino. Una gozada. Boston Spaceships - Christmas Girl [Right click for download] {lang: 'es'}

Boston Spaceships – Christmas Girl [mp3] (from Let It Beard , out now) ARMS – Glass Harmonica [mp3] (from Summer Skills , out Nov. 8th) Hospitality – Friends of Friends [mp3] (from Hospitality , out Jan. 31) HOSPITALITY: [...]
Filed under: News , Video , New Music Tell All Your Friends In July, we announced that Boston Spaceships , one of the many projects of Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard , would be holding a contest for fans to create a video for the track 'Christmas Girl.' Now, the band has revealed the winning clip, which tells the sad story of a lonely man and the divide between [...]
BOSTON SPACESHIPS myspace last.fm allmusic twitter Christmas Girl [mp3] From the new album Let It Beard . "... Let It Beard continues Boston Spaceships' winning streak, but more than that, it's a surprisingly cohesive, consistent double LP from a songwriter not known for cohesion or consistency. [...]
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Tweet Robert Pollard , lead singer of Boston Spaceships, has always been a prolific musician. Guided By Voices , his first band, often made albums running to around twenty songs. Since disbanding GBV in 2004, though, Pollard has reached James Brown like levels of output, releasing fourteen solo albums in seven years. In 2007, along with three solo records, he released one record with each of his four side projects. He added a fifth side project in 2008, Boston Spaceships, and in 2011 [...]

I knew Drake couldn't pass up reviewing the latest offering from Bob Pollard's Boston Spaceships. -ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 08.02.11 The dog days of summer are upon us, which means new releases are kind of dried up for a bit. But there's still some quality stuff to sift through. The 5th (and, it turns out, final) release from Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships , a great reissue of Archers of Loaf 's cult classic debut, plus new albums from Fruit Bats , Spencer Krug's [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bear Lake : "Scissors" [mp3] from If You Were Me (out October 25th) search for more Bear Lake posts at Largehearted Boy Blitzen Trapper : [...]

The dog days of summer are upon us, which means new releases are kind of dried up for a bit. But there's still some quality stuff to sift through. The 5th and final release from Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships outfit, a great reissue of Archers of Loaf's cult classic debut, plus new albums from Fruit Bats, Spencer Krug's Moonface, Fountains of Wayne, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Buffalo Killers, Mariachi El Bronx, John Hiatte, The Ettes, the last recordings of Screaming Trees, a Drive-By Truckers greatest hits along with a deluxe edition of Arcade [...]

Just some songs from some great new albums. Fruit Bats: Tripper Fruit Bats "Tangie and Ray" Fruit Bats "You're Too Weird" The Jayhawks: Mockingbird Time The Jayhawks - She Walks In So Many Ways [...]
Twenty-six songs? Certainly, a good portion of these would be just filler and noise, right? Wrong. What Let It Beard , the latest album from Boston Spaceships , accomplishes is taking you on a journey that leaves you feeling as if you just had an out-of-body experience. No, there weren't any drugs used in the writing of this review. With two-thirds of the band having been in Guided by Voices (Robert Pollard, Chris Slusarenko) and the other from The Decemberists (John Moen), Boston Spaceships have some strong songwriting capabilities. Finding these strong tracks isn't as hard as [...]

Assuredly, everyone's heard of supergroups like the punk powerhouse OFF! or Mick Jagger and company's Superheavy . But how's this for a power combo: John Moen of The Decemberists, Chris Slusarenko (formerly of Guided By Voices), and GBV frontman Robert Pollard coming together to form Boston Spaceships . Yeah, that sound you just heard was your jaw violently smacking the floor. The trio, who first started playing together as a unit in June 2008, have released four other albums and several 73 singles. But today, they've released their most auspicious work to date, [...]
Here are a few songs from some of better albums released this week. Boston Spaceships – "Tabby and Lucy" (mp3) from Let It Beard. Buffalo Killers – "Circle Day" (mp3) from 3. Direct Hit! – "Monster in the Closet" (mp3) from Domesplitter. Fruit Bats – "Tangie and Ray" (mp3) and "You're Too Weird" (mp3) from Tripper. Moonface – "Fast Peter" (mp3) from Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – "Come to Mary" (mp3) from Marble Son. Continue reading…

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars How does one review something written by Robert Pollard? You know there are going to be some amazing tunes, but you know there will probably be a few that you can toss away, especially when there's 26 tracks. But, in the case of Let It Beard , the latest release by Boston Spaceships , the majority of the trucks are solid, and you'll hardly find any throw-away tunes. "Blind 20-203 kind of gave me a start, building [...]

Boston Spaceships Let It Beard GBV Records On the heels of a successful reunion tour by Robert Pollard's first, and far more popular band, Guided by Voices, and with persistent rumors that the classic lineup of that band (Those largely responsible for albums like Propeller, Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, and Under the Bushes, Under the Stars) will release an album of new material, it's been easy to overlook what Pollard has accomplished with John Moen and Chris Slusarenko in Boston Spaceships. Don't. For the past three and-a-half years and four albums, [...]
Bob Pollard's Boston Spaceships return Tuesday with double album Let It Beard (Guided By Voices, Inc.). The 26-track LP, the band's fifth in its three-year existence, features guest appearances by the likes of Colin Newman (Wire), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Mick Collins (Dirtbombs, Gories), Dave Rick (Phantom Tollbooth) and Mitch Mitchell [...]