(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) I’m not sure who you trust, but I hope it’s not a musician. Chalk Robert Pollard’s Guided By Voices up as the latest group to renege on their promise not to reunite, not to tour, and not to record [...]
The dig…parsing through the archives, the muck. I suppose it’s what separates the men from the boys when it comes to the Robert Pollard canon. Pollard, who on average releases several albums of material per year (going back to the early Guided By Voices days) is set to drop Let It Beard on August 2nd—a [...]
Yeah, so the new Boston Spaceships LP is the shit. Doubters and skeptics need to seriously step up and give old uncle Bob a listen. In other GBV news we just profiled Isolation Drills, sooo this seems like as good a time as any to post a couple tracks from Don’t Stop Now the new [...]
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years? Here at AD, [...]
The following requires no introduction. As this is GBV, some drinking implied. Download: MP3: Guided By Voices :: Don’t Stop Now MP3: Guided By Voices :: King and Caroline MP3: Guided By Voices :: Motor Away MP3: Guided By Voices :: Gold Star For Robot Boy MP3: Guided By Voices :: Hot Freaks MP3: Guided [...]
Back in the early days of AD we would regularly run a feature called Under The Covers that would pit a really good cover against its original; in essence, the Cover Wars. Since features tend to ebb and flow around here, let’s revisit this one. The track in question is Guided By Voices “I Am [...]
With an average release schedule of 3-4 titles per year even the most ardent fans of the Pollard faithful can turn skeptic. And rightly so. This, the 1st release from the newly christened Guided by Voices label, is both refreshing and the most rewarding release Pollard has issued since 2006′s From A Compound Eye, which [...]
I’m sitting in a hotel room approximately 100 miles east of Amarillo, TX in what may very well be the definition of a one horse town (and this being west Texas, I mean that both literally and figuratively). Might I also add that if you ever find yourselves in Amarillo, TX, do pay a visit [...]
Released separately, alongside a companion DVD of the same name, this two disc set recorded in 2004, entitled Guided By Voices: Live From Austin, TX, finds Robert Pollard and company in the Lone Star state, visiting the set of Austin City Limits, doing what they do best: bringing the fucking rock show. The club is [...]
