Guided by Voices

Guided By Voices to Reissue Alien Lanes for 25th Anniversary

Guided By Voices' Alien Lanes will be getting the reissue treatment. Matador Records announced that the band's album will be the first in a series…
SPIN Staff / April 2, 2020

Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand: The 1994 SPIN Review

This review originally appeared in SPIN’s July 1994 issue. In honor of Bee Thousand's 25th anniversary, we’re republishing it here. It's no secret that some of…
Mike Rubin / June 23, 2019

Guided By Voices: Our 1994 Interview, ‘The Basement Tapes’

This article originally appeared in the July 1994 issue of Spin. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their landmark album Bee Thousand, we're republishing it…
Jim Greer / June 23, 2019

Tim Allen Really Loves the Paintings of Former Guided By Voices Member Tobin Sprout

Aaaooougggghhh? From Home Improvement to his current sitcom Last Man Standing, Tim Allen has carved out a reputation as an anti-intellectual type, a performative macho man whose creative…
Chris DeVille, Stereogum / July 11, 2018

Stream Guided By Voices’ New Album Space Gun

Guided By Voices have released their 26th studio album Space Gun in full. Announced last year with the single "Space Gun," the release follows August…
Rob Arcand / March 23, 2018

Guided By Voices Announce New Album Space Gun, Share Title Track

Guided By Voices have announced a new album slated for 2018 called Space Gun. Following two full-length releases this year (August By Cake and How…
Rob Arcand / December 9, 2017

Stream Guided By Voices’ New Album How Do You Spell Heaven

Last month, Guided By Voices announced their 25th studio album, How Do You Spell Heaven. It's the 101st album of bandleader Robert Pollard's prolific career; needless to say, his gift for catchy, raw-edged indie rock…
Anna Gaca / July 30, 2017

Guided By Voices Announce New Album How Do You Spell Heaven, Release “Just to Show You”

It's already time for a new Guided By Voices album. How Do You Spell Heaven, the band's 25th studio album, will be out August 11. GBV's previous double album, August By Cake, was released this…
Anna Gaca / June 22, 2017

New Music: Guided by Voices – “Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean”

Guided by Voices' upcoming 24th studio LP is lead singer Robert Pollard's 100th, and though it is entitled August by Cake, it will come out…
Winston Cook-Wilson / March 13, 2017

New Music: Guided By Voices Announce New Album, Which Will Be Robert Pollard’s 100th LP

Insanely prolific Ohio indie rockers Guided by Voices announced a new record earlier today. August by Cake, out April 7, will be the group’s 24th…
Taylor Berman / January 25, 2017

4Knots Music Festival 2016 Lineup: Guided By Voices, Protomartyr, Car Seat Headrest, and More

The Village Voice's sixth annual 4Knots Music Festival, taking place on July 9 at New York's South Street Seaport, has announced its initial lineup. Taking…
Rachel Brodsky / April 13, 2016

Hear ‘My Zodiac Companion,’ the First New Guided By Voices Song Since the Last One

Astonishingly prolific songwriter Robert Pollard has announced a new Guided By Voices album, Please Be Honest, out April 22. In an uncommon show of restraint, the GBV…
Anna Gaca / March 11, 2016

Stream Our Playlist of the 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995

It's shocking that it's somehow been twenty years since 1995, but here we are, and SPIN decided to mark the passage of time and…
James Grebey / August 6, 2015

Ben Gibbard Performed an Acoustic Cover of Guided by Voices’ ‘Tractor Rape Chain’

Death Cab for Cutie are on the cusp of releasing their new album, Kintsugi, and, while making the publicity rounds this week, frontman Ben Gibbard stopped…
Rachel Brodsky / March 27, 2015

Guided by Voices Break Up Just in Time for Their Fall Tour

Guided by Voices are, once again, no more. Robert Pollard's band featured quite a rotating cast before splitting in 2004, but the Dayton lo-fi heroes…
Chris Martins / September 18, 2014
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