GBV Share "Man Called Blunder" Track
GBV has shared a new track from their forthcoming LP ‘Surrender Your Poppy Field’. It’s entitled “Man Called Blunder” and it was originally featured on Jack Rabid’s The Big Takeover Show on Real Punk Radio!
GBV Announce New Tour Dates
GBV will be hitting the road in 2020. Dates are below. You can get tickets here.
GBV Announce New LP, Share "Volcano" Track + Tour Dates
GBV has announced their new LP ‘Surrender Your Poppy Field’. It is out 02/20/20 on GBV Inc. The band has also shared their new track “Volcano” and tour dates. Both of which are below.
Tour Dates:
04-03 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
04-04 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls
04-24 Bethlehem, PA - Musikfest Cafe
04-25 New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
05-01 Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival
05-02 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
05-08 San Luis Obispo, CA - Fremont Theater
05-09 San Francisco, CA - The Regency
07-10 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Hall
Robert Pollard: 'Don't Let Them In' Art Exhibit
Skeleton Dust Records in Dayton will have an exhibit of Robert Pollard art during the entire month of December.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 11-7pm, Sunday 12-6pm
Friday Dec 13th, 7-9pm, exhibition celebration with the artist.
Guided By Voices Share New LP 'Sweating The Plague' on CoS
Guided By Voices new LP ‘Sweating The Plague’ was shared in full on Consequence of Sound. Along with the LP premiere, guitarist Doug Gillard did an exclusive “Track by Track” with the site. ‘Sweating the Plague’ is out now.
Listen on all streaming platforms here!
'Sweating The Plague' Album Listening Parties
To see photos of listening parties at 17 stores across 4 countries - click here.
Kid Marine, Speak Kindly, + Heavy Like the World Reissues
Guided By Voices brings you 20th anniversary vinyl reissues of two early gems from the Fading Captain Series and a brand new single from their newest project, Sweating the Plague.
The reissues featured were originally issued as small vinyl pressings (1000 copies) in 1999, and used copies of these Guided By Voices “side-projects” have regularly re-sold for hundreds of dollars each. Both have been remastered from the original analog tapes.
Kid Marine, the first-ever release of the Fading Captain Series and Robert Pollard’s third solo album, features "Far-Out Crops”, "Submarine Teams," and the sublime "White Gloves Come Off." Pollard handles all guitar and keyboard duties as well as vocals, joined by GBV’s Greg Demos (bass) and Tobin Sprout (piano) and the Breeders’ Jim MacPherson (drums), soon to join GBV for Do The Collapse.
Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department was the first album of Pollard’s fruitful collaboration with long-time guitarist Doug Gillard (later to be known as Lifeguards). Gillard recorded all the instruments on Tascam 4-track cassette in Cleveland, then sent them via US Postal Service to Pollard who added vocals in a studio in Dayton. Eleven Pollard compositions along with 4 songs which Pollard wrote and recorded melodies over Gillard-penned instrumentals, starting an unusual songwriting process that Pollard pursued for several years with various long-distance collaborators. Nearly half the songs on the album became staples of the GBV live set for several years, including "Pop Zeus," "Tight Globes," "Frequent Weaver Who Burns" and "Do Something Real.”
"Heavy Like The World" is the subliminally seductive single from the forthcoming Guided By Voices album Sweating The Plague. “Silent Army” is a non-lp b-side.
Guided By Voices is an unlikely candidate for the most perfect rock band of all time, while at the same time being a thoughtful reflection on what a rock band is, a fantasy that becomes a fact.