The reunited Guided By Voices have released a staggering four new albums since last January, and ultra-prolific frontman Robert Pollard also has a new solo album coming out in July. But that's not enough! Before that solo album even lands, Pollard will debut a new mostly-solo side project called Teenage Guitar. In this one, Pollard sings and plays guitar and pianos, and old friends Greg Demos and Joe Patterson occasionally help out. Teenage Guitar's debut album Force Fields At Home is set to arrive soon, and you can hear the short and murky psych-pop song "Atlantic Cod" below. [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official release and digital availability of I Razor , the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias . The album comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, [...]
Here is another collection of fifteen top tunes lovingly collected and filtered for your listening pleasure. So gather round and invest some time in these - a veritable aural treasure trove of tracks. First up is another track of swaggering blues rock and roll in the shape of New York Avenue from the Delta Routine's recently released album, Cigarettes And Caffeine Nightmares . . In a similar vein, the bravely named Velvets from down under, have a big, sleazy blues sound going [...]
Robert Pollard staying busy as always with new album, Honey Locust Honky Tonk. Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard refuses to stay inactive. He's released yet another album - Honey Locust Honky Tonk...
We all now how busy Robert Pollard is, constantly writing songs for himself and for GBV, so he doesn't want to waste any time here; he wants to give you another jam to take you into your Friday. He's got a new record titled Honey Locust Honky Tonk , which will be in stores on July 9th. This is actually one of my favorite tracks of his recent output, which doesn't mean I hate anything or love anything in particular, only that I like this track quite a bit. [...]
Il cantante e leader dei Guided By Voices realizza il suo nuovo disco solista. "Honey Locust Honky Tonk" uscirà il prossimo 9 luglio su GBV Inc. label della band. Primo estratto questa "I Killed A Man Who Looks Like You" La tracklit di "Honey Locust Honky Tonk" : 01. He Requested Things 02. Circus Green Machine 03. Strange And Pretty Day 04. Suit Minus The Middle 05. Drawing A Picture 06. Who Buries The Undertaker 07. She Hides In Black 08. [...]
Fresh off the release of another Guided By Voices album, Robert Pollard has announced details of a new solo record. Honey Locust Honky Tonk has been given a July 9th street date. Listen to "I Killed a Man Who Looks Like You" here:
Taken from the forthcoming album Honey Locust Honky Tonk available 8th July from www.firerecords.com.
In the past year and a half, the reunited classic-lineup Guided By Voices have released a jaw-dropping four studio albums, somehow outdoing the output of their first incarnation. The last one was English Little League , which dropped just last week. So naturally, frontman Robert Pollard has wasted zero time announcing his next solo album Honey Locust Honky Tonk , out in a couple of months. The first song we've heard from it is a mythic acoustic stomper that bears the absolutely badass title "I Killed A Man Who Looks Just Like You." Stream it below. [...]
In the past year and a half, the reunited classic-lineup Guided By Voices have released a jaw-dropping four studio albums, somehow outdoing the output of their first incarnation. The last one was English Little League , which dropped just last week. So naturally, frontman Robert Pollard has wasted zero time announcing his next solo album Honey Locust Honky Tonk , out in a couple of months. The first song we've heard from it is a mythic acoustic stomper that bears the absolutely badass title "I Killed A Man Who Looks Just Like You." Stream it below. [...]
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Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout and co. crack open the first GBV song keg of 2013, with an album peppered with reliably solid - if radicalism-free - moments.
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of I Razor , the soundtrack to the no-budget experimental feature film of the same name directed by Todd Tobias . The album comprises challenging, playful, twisted, murky and downright beautiful pieces of music by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils, featuring vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the Devil’s existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging. It weaves lo-fi keyboards through shimmering guitar textures, scatters unsettling rhythms across [...]
Robert Pollard is an indie rock legend. As the driving force behind the Dayton, Ohio group Guided by Voices , his output has not only been of exceptional quality, but exceptionally prolific. English Little League is the band's 20th studio album since their formation in ’83 – and making twenty LPs in that amount of time is no mean feat, especially if you discount their recent 6-year hiatus. They were most celebrated at the midpoint of the ‘90s, when they put out modern classics such as [...]
howdy, hi! not much today, other than this gbv comp which i posted a couple years back, but had a couple of requests for a repost. if i have something, i am always happy to oblige. its lily's, my daughter, birthday today - she's 5. so going to be getting into some serious birthday shit. well, as much shit as you can with a 5 year old. i originally got this from the gbv database , which is an unbelievable resource for hardcore or even passing gbv fans. this is just a snippet of the broadcaster house [...]
Guided by Voices has released one EP in 2013 and is releasing a new full-length, "English Little League" next week—so by GBV standards it's a ho-hum, average-paced year. These guys are so prolific that we've run out of stuff to say about how prolific they are . Nonetheless, the tunes keep on coming. Today we get the first look at "English Little League," a perfectly charming little number called "Flunky Minnows" that clocks in somewhere between The Replacements and very early Flaming Lips. Take a listen below. Follow [...]
Ron Sexsmith's 2013 album, Forever Endeavour BY JORDAN MAINZER With a name like Sexsmith, how can you not be noticed? Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith has existed just outside of the popular singer-songwriter circle for virtually his entire career. As trends came and went, Sexsmith relentlessly produced Seventies-ish schmaltzy, Davies, Newman, and Nilsson-like pop songs at a remarkably consistent pace and of remarkably consistent quality, perhaps only bested by someone like Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard. From 20022s excellent (and perhaps career best) Cobblestone Runway to his most recent effort, [...]
On June 18, SideOneDummy Records will issue Singles Collection: 2008-2011, which features nine seven-inches containing the Gaslight Anthem’s singles and rare acoustic and live tracks, packaged in a limited-edition wooden collector’s chest ... Robert Pollard will issue his 23rd solo album, Honey Locust Honky Tonk, on July 2 ... Two more Townes Van Zandt reissues will [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announced the release of the new single ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ by Robert Pollard-led Circus Devils, taken from the forthcoming I Razor soundtrack. Fans can download the track for free from the Hidden Shoal Store . ‘All The Good Ones Are Gone’ is the first official cut from the soundtrack to I Razor , the no-budget experimental feature film directed by Todd Tobias . The track finds Circus Devils at their most introspective, as Robert Pollard’s unmistakably commanding and affecting vocals and wonderful lyrical play [...]
The brilliant music video for Circus Devils 'Let's Go Back To Bed' lifted off the forthcoming I Razor soundtrack has been featured in the always reliable Magnet Magazine . This comes just days before the first official single from the I Razor soundtrack is released (14th March), the Circus Devils track 'All The Good Ones Are Gone'. For the uninitiated I Razor is the no-budget experimental feature film directed by Todd Tobias . The I Razor soundtrack, to be released by Hidden Shoal in May 2013, [...]
Talk of the Nation interviews author Amy Boesky about ghostwriting over 50 Sweet Valley High books. "I've been getting these wonderful letters from readers, who are women now — who are lawyers, who are doctors, who grew up reading these books, sort of, under the covers with their flashlights. And their parents wanted them to be reading Jane Eyre or something more serious. "I think many of us have a kind of guilty pleasure about some of this lighter cultural material, and I think there's room for both." Andrew [...]
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