Tag Archive for 'guided by voices'

sloth bear vs magoo

Published
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gregor
on September 5, 2008
in new stuff
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i love when people send over shit with nothing other than a few mp3’s and a few sentences. such is the case with sloth bear. no individual band member names, no myspace page, no album title, nothing… just, and i am paraphrasing, hey we are sloth bear, we recorded this in our basement on a 4 track, blah blah blah. i appreciate that they didnt send me to myspace or some other bullshit. instead, they sent over 6 tracks of what turned out to be pure fuzzed out pop bliss complete with barely decipherable lyrics. that shit gets me every time, in all seriousness. check em out. the two tracks are from their ep, which i dont have a name for.

riyl: gbv, apples in stereo, sonic youth

the exceptional bastards

empathize

i cant tell ya if the below links are working, but the first two are off of magoo’s debut, the soateramic sounds of magoo which is one of the most underrated and sadly overlooked indie pop records ever created. you will be hard pressed to find a record as infinitely catchy as this one. its worth every penny of the 39 cents they are selling it for on amazon.

learn more about magoo, here.

red lines (are fine)

the queen of the 8 bus singers

chicken blows - gbv cover

robert pollard is off to business

Published
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gregor
on May 9, 2008
in announcement and new stuff
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photo by brennan cavanaugh

sup peoples? i am so far behind on my uncle bob news/music its kinda pathetic. for some reason i have been selfish with my listening habits as of late and i barely listened to standard gargoyle decisions and coast to coast carpet of love. i hear they’re great but i think i may have od’d on everything bob/gbv for the better part of 15 years that i had to cease to care for a while in order to maintain the relationship. anywho, i didn’t know that he split with merge to form his own label which he has respectfully and lovingly called guided by voices inc. the second release, first being the 3 song ep weatherman and skin goddess, on his new label will be robert pollard is off to business which was produced by tim tobias and comes in at a scant 10 songs (gasp!) maybe he’s coming to grips with that inner editor he desperately needs from time to time. here be the first single and some other stuff to cozy up to.

gratification to concrete off robert pollard is off to business

love your spaceman off superman was a rocker

current desperation off coast to coast carpet of love

pill gone girl off standard gargoyle decisions

circle saw boys club off silverfish trivia

death of a party off keene brother’s blues and boogie shoes

official ironman rally song (demo) off gbv’s under the bushes under stars

there are about 10-15 more mp3’s on his site.

in other bob news (taken verbatim - see copy and pasted from his site)

On August 6, Robert Pollard will release Town Of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery Of Robert Pollard, the first ever collection of his artwork. This 144-page tome will collect more than 180 collages that Pollard has created throughout the years, including several made exclusively for this collection. The full-color, coffee table-ready book, which will be published by Fantagraphics, includes an introduction by author Rick Moody, who performed similar honors for 2004’s self-explanatory The Wilco Book. No stranger to the art world, Pollard created most of the surreal album covers for Guided By Voices and his solo albums, and his work has been exhibited in Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante in New York and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in his native Ohio. order it here.

the war machine has fled, and people have gone home

Published
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gregor
on February 3, 2008
in new stuff and shows
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top of the day people. here is a lovely soundboard recording of gbv in germany on 8.16.95. it also happens to be their first european gig ever. thanks to the original taper!

first here are a couple of tracks from upcoming pollard related releases.

love your spaceman from superman was a rocker

enon beach from psycho and the birds’ we’ve moved

1. a salty salute

2. marchers in orange

3. shocker in gloomtown

4. my valuable hunting knife

5. game of pricks

6. king and caroline

7. motor away

8. kicker of elves

9. hot freaks

10. my impression now

11. i am a scientist

12. tractor rape chain

13. break even

14. gold star for robot boy

15. striped white jets

16. non-absorbing

17. postal blowfish

18. exit flagger

19. dont stop now

20. evil speakers

21. yours to keep

22. echos myron

23. lethargy

24. weed king

25. over the neptune

26. my son cool

game of pricks live @ amoeba

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hey, peter

Published
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gregor
on October 6, 2007
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i am testing this new youtube plugin. so here are a few of my personal favorite youtube videos.

gbv.game of pricks @ ameoba records

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gbv.back to the lake

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superchunk.watery hands

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chavez.unreal is here

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pavement.major leagues

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archers of loaf.harnessed in slums

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you remember my corporation, kramerica industries?

Published
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gregor
on September 27, 2007
in robert pollard, shows and thurston moore
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in case you were wondering, i recently rekindled my torrid love affair with the man known only as biker fox. jealous much?

i should mention that spoon was added to the the echo project festival here in atlanta. hopefully i will be attending the festivities.

dawson’s creek is on right now and i forget how cute katie holmes used to be. also, what the hell happed to josh jackson?

suprise, fuckin suprise, rich and his the cable and the tweed was voted best atlanta blog by the people of this fair city as reported by creative loafing. fuckers! in all seriousness, he does a great freakin job and i can only wish to be half as cool as he. congrats, rich!

me and sonic youth have a more of an admiration based relationship rather than one based on actually being able to make it through an entire record. actually thats a lie, i can make it through goo and daydream nation. i think hansel really summed up our relationship when he so elequantly had this to say about sting, “sting would be another person who’s a hero. The music he’s created over the years, I don’t really listen to it, but the fact that he’s making it, I respect that.” just replace sting with sonic youth. out of the other side of my mouth, thurston has a pretty great solo record out now, in case you didnt know. its called trees outside the academy and while there is still a lot of his signature fractured and spazz out guitar work, its pretty toned down or at least as toned down as thurston can get.

frozen guitar

fri/end

thurston moore site

i dont know much about frightened rabbit except that they are from glasgow. a place that if i were to believe the men of mogwai sounds like the most depressing place on earth. of course you can use belle and sebastian as an argument to the contrary, but in my mind they arent from glasgow. anyway, frightened rabbit are much more in the vein of american indie rock/pop than anything that i have heard coming out of that neck of the woods - which isnt a lot but enough to formulate an opinion.

they gots a new record, sing the greys, coming out on 10.2 and are going to tour this fall with pinback.

be less rude

frightened rabbit site / myspace

speaking of guided by voices, uncle bob has not one but two records coming out on 10.9. coast to coast carpet of love will find bobby exploring the beatles side of his musical personality and standard gargoyle decisions will explore his stones side. i have yet to hear either, but these should be very, very cool. we already know what his beatles side can produce. i hope his stones influenced stuff is full of anthematic rockers.

rud fins from coast to coast..

the killers from standard gargoyle..

bob pollard site

here be the remainder of the bruce show from 6.6.78 live from kansas city, misery.

11. mona

12. she’s the one

13. growin up

14. backstreets

15. rosalita

16. the promise

17. born to run

18. tenth ave freeze-out

19. quarter to three

i want your eyes, pig

Published
by
gregor
on September 25, 2007
in shows
. 6 Comments

top o’ the morning. you guys hear about that purported meg white sex tape? yeah, well if you go to egotastic you can check it out, or atleast a minute or two of it. its clearly not her, but for a minute i was mildly excited. i mean the body says maybe but the face says not so fast champ. i still watched the whole clip, you know just to make sure. in the end, it was just some chick with a big rack gettin nailed and a set of nuts i didnt need to see. oh well. i should mention that its definitely nsfw.

go bears!? ugh…

i still cant get over how awesomely hilarious sunday nights season opener of family guy was. i knew they were doing something star wars related but i didnt know that they were pretty much running through all of episode iv. very very cool.

lookin for something to do this fine evening in atlanta? well, the sea and cake are playing at the earl at 9ish, probably wont be more like 11 until they go on. then animal collective plays at the variety tomorrow evening. i am still vey much on the fence regarding my opinion of animal collective. although, the new one is supposed to be pretty good? anyone hear it yet?

the more i listen to iron and wine’s “boy with a coin” from the shepherds dog i become more convinced that its probably my favorite song of the year. for all 4 of you that have somehow not participated in the iron and wine frenzy, check it!

boy with a coin

innocent bones

woman king from the woman king ep

the shepherds dog is out today and its definitely a contender for record of the year.

iron and wine site / myspace

i like this kid, markland starkie, and his sleeping states. he states that he has a real issue with the whole singer-songwriter genre and finds it “cheesy beyond belief.” now, i am not to sure what he’s doing to change anyone’s perceptions of the dreaded singer-songwriter genre but it sounds good to me.

rivers

sleeping states’ there the open spaces was released last week on misra

sleeping states site

if daytrotter isnt the best music site on the interwebs please point out which one is. i seriously dont think you will find one. they have a repeat performance by one of my recent favorites, catfish haven. if you havent checked them boys out yet now’s your chance to do so either here or there.

crazy for leaving

please come back

too hungover to headbang

catfish haven site

its been a long ass time since i have done something gbv related. mostly due to not having a huge quality selection to choose from, at least the avenues i travel, and well thats probably it. so today is the aborted gbv record, circa 1995, the power of suck. now from all accounts, the power of suck, was going to be a concept record about the mediocre rise to success that gbv garnered after bee thousand and going into alien lanes. its all folklore at this point but check the gbv database for further details.

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