“Olympus cock in Radiana/struts the strut of kings,” declares Robert Pollard, against a vamping guitar riff in this, the 41st year of the phenomenon known as Guided by Voices. We can celebrate 30 years of being able to listen to the great Bee Thousand now, but the real triumph is that Guided by Voices just keeps going. Its crashing guitar chords and Who-like drum explosions, its dream-state lyrical surrealities, its inevitable melodies burst from Strut of Kings as fresh and powerful as ever.
Category: Guided By Voices
Robert Pollard :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
2023 was a fantastic year for Guided by Voices. The trio of records that came out – La La Land, Welshpool Frillies, and the late-year Nowhere to Go But Up – are some of the best the band has put out in the seven years its most recent incarnation has been together. Founding member Robert Pollard seems just as chaotically creative as ever, whether it’s the pure volume of songs or the developing shape they take. Over the holiday break, Pollard caught up with Aquarium Drunkard via email about the latest trio of albums, how the writing process works for the band 7 years and 16 albums in, the challenge of writing lyrics for music that already exists, and the transformative power of a Glen Campbell cover of your own work.
AD Presents: Guided By Voices / Teragram Ballroom – Friday
The club is open. Friday night, Aquarium Drunkard presents Guided By Voices at the Teragram. Get tickets, HERE . Wanna roll? Hit us up in the comments with your favorite GBV era; we’ll slide a few pairs […]
AD Presents :: Guided By Voices, NOLA – One Eyed Jacks, 9/22
The club is indeed open. Next Saturday, September 22nd, Aquarium Drunkard presents Guided By Voices at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. Detective and KG Accidental support. Tickets available, here . We’re also giving away a few […]
Sevens :: Guided By Voices – The Unsinkable Fats Domino
( 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. […]
Boston Spaceships: Let It Beard / Andenu: Cowboy Zoo Theme
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 […]
A Brazilian Tribute To Guided By Voices
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 […]
Decade :: Guided By Voices, Isolation Drills (2001)
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 […]
Guided By Voices :: Maxwells, Hoboken, NJ 3.30.95
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 By Voices :: Why Did You Land MP3: Guided By Voices :: Postal Blowfish MP3: Guided By Voices :: My Son Cool MP3: […]
I Am Decided :: Guided By Voices/The Amps
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 […]
Robert Pollard Is Off To Business
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 […]
Car Jamming, Pt 1 :: Titus And Strident Wet Nurse
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 […]
Guided By Voices :: Live @ Austin City Limits
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 […]