“I’m a student of hooks,” the exceedingly prolific Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard tells Rolling Stone. If you’re familiar with GBV’s 40-plus-album catalog, that’s an understatement. “That perfect combination of a lyric and a chord pattern that gives you that chill up the back of your spine.” The band …
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Guided by Voices super fans were stunned Monday when news broke that the long-running band had broken up. Their team, though, tells Rolling Stone the band is still going strong — so strong, in fact, that they have another album in the works. Thick Rich and Delicious drops on Halloween. …
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Two days before Guided By Voices release their new album Universe Room, the prolific indie-rock stalwarts have shared one last preview from the LP, “I Will Be a Monk.” The 90-second salvo is prototypical GBV, with frontman Robert Pollard and company concisely dispensing lo-fi riffs over the track, one of …
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Guided By Voices get lean and mean on their 18th album in 10 years, Universe Room, out Feb. 7 via the band’s label. “I wanted to create, hopefully, an experience, kind of a wild ride, where the listener would want to hear it multiple times in order to grasp all …
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