Jan 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Guided By Voices’ frontman Robert Pollard is certainly known for being prolific, both with Guided By Voices and his various solo and side projects, but anyone keeping count will realize that his next album will be his 100th LP release. More

Nov 08, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Rogue Wave have covered Guided By Voices’ “Vote For Me Dummy” as part of the “30 Days, 30 Songs” (now expanded to 50 songs) anti-Trump campaign put together by author/publisher Dave Eggers and Death Cab for Cutie manager Jordan Kurland. More

Nov 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete has been battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer. His health insurance has been covering more than six months of regular chemotherapy treatments, but does not cover an alternative treatment plan he’s also been undergoing. As Fekete is unable to work and tour he’s been relying on fan and friend donations to his GoFundMe page to help pay for treatments. More

Sep 18, 2014 By Laura Studarus

We all knew it couldn’t last forever right? A half-dozen albums after their reunion, Guided By Voices has called it a day. More

Apr 03, 2014 By Laura Studarus

A new Guided by Voices album? What are the odds? The ever prolific bunch will release Cool Planet on the band’s own Guided By Voices Inc imprint. More

Nov 27, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On Feb. 18 Guided by Voices will add to their ever-expanding catalogue of work with a brand new album, Motivational Jumpsuit. More

Dec 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

To the surprise of absolutely no one Guided by Voices have announced the arrival of a new album in 2013. More

May 18, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Attempting to keep pace with the trio of albums scheduled for release this year, the reunited Guided By Voices have announced a number of additional tour dates to their itinerary. More

May 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With their latest LP Let’s Go Eat the Factory released back in January, Guided by Voices are poised to release the second of three albums this year with Class Clown Spots a UFO. More

Apr 20, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

Guided by Voices has already been super busy in the studio this year. Their next record, Class Clown Spots a UFO has had its release date pushed back to June 12 due to the success of their previous record, Let’s Go Eat the Factory, which was released in January. More

Mar 09, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

Guided by Voices’ new single, “Keep it in Motion” has been released online. It is the first single from their new album, Class Clown Spots A UFO, the follow-up to their previous release, Let’s Go Eat The Factory which came out last January. More

Jan 04, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last night a reunited Guided By Voices visited the Ed Sullivan Theater to play The Late Show with David Letterman, performing the track “The Unsinkable Fats Domino” off the band’s latest album Let’s Go Eat the Factory. More

Dec 19, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Ringing in the new year, lo-fi pop icons Guided by Voices are scheduled to release their 16th studio album, Let’s Go Eat the Factory, the first to feature the band’s original lineup since 1996. More

Oct 26, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Today, Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard posted single “The Unsinkable Fats Domino” on his website. We have the MP3. More

Oct 12, 2011 By Mi Tran

After reuniting and touring for the past year, Guided By Voices have announced the release of their new full-length album, Let’s Go Eat The Factory. More

Sep 21, 2011 By Laura Studarus

‘Cause everyone loves the classic formula (did you hear that Facebook?) Guided By Voices reunited earlier this year with their original line-up (Rob Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell, for all you keeping score.) That apparently went according to plan, as the band has announced a new album is on the way. More

May 02, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

Move over, Guided By Voices reunion tour—frontman Robert Pollard also has a full-length album in store for 2011. More

Aug 04, 2010 By John Everhart

Portland’s Blitzen Trapper have announced more dates in support of their fourth album, Destroyer of the Void, released June 8 on Sub Pop. Included are shows with labelmates Avi Buffalo and recently reunited road warriors Guided By Voices. We have the dates. More

Jul 15, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

In June, Robert Pollard made the Herculean announcement that the ‘90s lo-fi pop/indie group Guided By Voices, would reunite in its mid-90s “classic lineup” form to play at Matador’s 21st anniversary festival in Las Vegas. He won’t stop there though. Pollard announced on his website today, that same lineup will head out on a full U.S. tour this fall. More

Jun 30, 2010 By Laura Studarus

In the grand tradition of 21-year-olds everywhere, Matador Records is heading to Las Vegas to celebrate their 21st birthday October 1-3rd. We have the impressive birthday concert lineup. More

Nov 01, 2007 By Frank Valish

Say what you will about Robert Pollard, but the ex-Guided By Voices frontman is certainly never lacking for ideas. More

May 15, 2019 By Michael James Hall

On their 300th full-length album this month, Robert Pollard’s erstwhile gang Guided By Voices throw out a 126,000 track nonuple album that’s as good as anything, nothing, or maybe everything, they’ve ever released, not released, or even thought about. More

Mar 27, 2018 By Ian Rushbury

It must be tough to keep everything fresh when it’s your 26th album. Guided By Voices sidestep this onerous task by making the same one over again, bringing out different facets and refining it, until it’s time to have a rethink. More

Jul 19, 2016 By Aug Stone

Two and a half hours. 50 songs. People were complaining it was $35 a ticket but break that down and it’s 23 cents a minute, for two and half hours of Pure Rock ‘N’ Roll. Robert Pollard’s still got the pipes and the poses. And made great use of them without any sign of flagging during the entire striped-white-jet-powered show. More

Jun 12, 2012 By Frank Valish

It’s difficult to put a new Guided By Voices album into context these days. Robert Pollard has established a particular context of his own, individualistic and idiosyncratic as it may be. All jokes about Pollard’s incredible productivity aside, suffice it to say that Class Clown Spots a UFO is the newly re-formed GBV’s second album of 2012. And it’s not as good as the first. More

Jan 04, 2012 By Frank Valish

It’s about time! After a 15 year hiatus, the “classic lineup” of Guided By Voices-Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell—has finally returned to the studio for its first album of new material since 1996’s Under the Bushes, Under the Stars. More

Nov 24, 2010 By Austin Trunick

If Robert Pollard is anything, he’s prolific. He’s released several discs of music each year for the past two decades under at least a dozen names, founded a handful of record labels, published one literary magazine, a book of collage work and a couple spoken word albums, and written more than a thousand songs during his career. More

Nov 15, 2010 By Frank Valish

If anyone doubted the popular importance of the recent Guided By Voices reunion, he or she would only have had to witness the line around the block in front of Philadelphia’s Trocadero Theater on November 6 an hour prior to showtime. More