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Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, OFF!). Time’s on your side. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Read Mr. Morris in MAGNET on Guided By Voices: The post Happy Birthday Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, OFF!) appeared first... more info

Magnet Magazine — 20 years ago today, Richard Buckner released Meadow. Featuring 40 percent of Guided By Voices! Read our classic Buckner Q&A: The post Richard Buckner Released “Meadow” 20 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — 55 years ago today, John Lennon released Imagine. We still need someone to give us some truth. Read Albert Hammond Jr (Strokes) on Lennon, the Clash, the Velvet Underground, Guided By Voices and more: The post John Lennon Released “Imagine” 55 Ye... more info

Magnet Magazine — Much like their better-known neighbors in Guided By Voices, Dayton, Ohio’s Smug Brothers have never made a grand production out of releasing music. Over two decades and at least a dozen LPs, the outfit has been steadily accumulating lo-fi indie-roc... more info

Stereogum — The Dayton/Columbus quartet Smug Brothers plays a scrappy, classicist form of indie rock that shows plenty of influence from local heroes like Guided By Voices, who once counted Smugs drummer Don Thrasher among their ranks. Next month, they'll follow... more info

Stereogum — When not cranking out new Guided By Voices albums at an impossible clip, American lo-fi rock 'n' roll hero Robert Pollard also creates music under alternate guises. As of two years ago, those ventures include Rip Van Winkle, a new band that aligns Po... more info

Magnet Magazine — 22 years ago, Nashville’s Sam Powers (briefly in Superdrag and who played bass with Guided By Voices on the band’s 2003 European tour) recorded the six songs that comprise The Thousand Yard Stairs. He then promptly sat on them for reasons only he... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 65th 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 ... 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