Magnet Magazine — If you remember the MAGNET 10th anniversary show, you weren’t really there. We were there (duh) and don’t remember much, but here’s what we know: It was at the Trocadero (R.I.P.) in Philly. Guided By Voices, the Shins and My Morning Jacket play... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Paddy Considine (actor, director, writer, musician, Guided By Voices superfan). Renaissance man. Paddy, Steven Soderbergh, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Black Keys, Strokes, Decemberists, Drive-By Truckers, Sean Lennon and more pick their fa... more info

Stereogum — Robert Pollard, endlessly prolific frontman for the great indie rock institution Guided By Voices, does not seem like a particularly spooky individual, but he was a Halloween baby. (Maybe the voices guiding him are ghosts!) Pollard was born on Hal... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday President Obama. Artists you love who’ve been on the cover of MAGNET: the Black Keys, the National, Okkervil River, Jeff Tweedy, Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee and Lucy Dacus (who seems to consider you a war criminal). Read Obama press secre... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Hard Quartet, Zwan, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy). Plus, Adele, Andrew WK, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Neil Diamond, Dixie Chicks, Guided By Voices, Stephen Malkmus, Run The Jewels—to name just a few. Chavez photo for ... more info

Stereogum — Rip Van Winkle, the new band from ever-prolific Guided By Voices leader Robert Pollard, will release their debut album Blasphemy next month. Today they’ve followed up its lead single “By The Water” with “Shit-heel Man.” The song is a pri... more info

Stereogum — There are people who make a fine living by closely monitoring this nation’s youth sports leagues in hopes of finding players to replenish America’s college and professional teams. I wonder if Matador Records has a similar program, but for pote... more info

Stereogum — Did you really think they were done? Guided By Voices famously refuse to stop; earlier this year, they released their 41st album Universe Room . Rumors started spreading today that the longstanding band was breaking up, but that’s already been ... more info

Stereogum — Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard has some new music on the way. His garage rock project Rip Van Winkle — with Joseph Airport’s drummer Jason Short, bassist Joe Patterson, and guitarist Ben Penry — is releasing its debut album Blasphe... more info

Magnet Magazine — Among the myriad side projects that spin about Robert Pollard’s seemingly boundless personal orbit, Rip Van Winkle is a bit of a garage-punk outlier. Three of its members—drummer Jason Short, bassist Joe Patterson and guitarist Ben Perry—took G... more info