Guided By Voices
Welshpool Frillies cover art 2023.
Guided By Voices + Weird Nightmare
Buffalo Iron Works Friday, August 4
Guided Voices ON TOUR
*Fri 8/4 Iron Works Buffalo, NY
Sat 8/5 Positive Jam Accord, NY
Fri 9/1 GBV 40th Anniv show Dayton, OH SOLD OUT
Sat 9/2 GBV 40th Anniv Show Dayton, OH SOLD OUT
Fri 10/6 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
Sat 10/7 White Eagle Hall Jersey City, NJ
Fri 10/27 Terminal West Atlanta, GA
Sat 10/28 Grey Eagle Asheville, NC
Guided By Voices: Robert Pollard: vocals, Doug Gillard: guitar, Bobby Bare Jr.: guitar, Mark Shue: bass, Kevin March; drums.
In 1994, 38-year-old school teacher Robert Pollard & his merry band recorded Bee Thousand in a Dayton, Ohio, basement on a 4-track cassette recorder. This improbable rock classic became an enormously influential album: Pitchfork and Spin have called it one of the best records of the ’90s, and Amazon picked Bee Thousand as #1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Of All Time. A legendary live band with a rabid following, the Washington Post called GBV “the Grateful Dead equivalent for people who like Miller Lite instead of acid!” With 10 studio albums already under their belts in less than 5 years, the band’s present-day line-up is nothing less than a new Golden Age of GBV. Robert Pollard will be celebrating the band's 40th anniversary with a Labor Day weekend celebration in Dayton joined by Dinosaur Jr, Built To Spill, Heartless Bastards and more.
Robert Pollard has a very strong work ethic.
With most of their touring canceled due to the pandemic and then a fractured kneecap, Guided By Voices ran up an extremely prolific streak in the studio, recording and releasing eight albums in the past three years and garnering piles of rave 4 **** star & 5 **** star reviews in the process. In case you were snoozing, the last album, La La Land was Uncut magazine's Best of the Month. The pandemic records were particularly notable and unique that the band members recorded most of their instruments individually in separate cities.
Welshpool Frillies finds the gang back together, in a Brooklyn basement with producer Travis Harrison. Much of it was recorded live to tape. The catchy ear worms in these new songs are undeniable, as the kinetic energy of the band is captured in its most raw and pure form. The album is brash, no-frills, and punky, inspired by the wiliness of 90s-era GBV, specifically the Scalping the Guru compilation that Pollard put together in 2022.
2023 marks the 40th anniversary of GBV’s start in Dayton, Ohio. Robert Pollard was an elementary school teacher with no formal music training, and his unlikely success has been an odds-defying adventure. It's never too late to discover this vital rock band and join the GBV cult.
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