Minneapolis Fucking Rocks — Nicole Schneit is Air Waves (cue Guided By Voices song title) and is about to release her new record ‘Parting Glances’. Members of bands including Jana Hunter of Lower Dens, Jarvis Taveniere of Woods, members of Crystal Stilts, Ava Luna, and H... more info

Stereogum — Is the Earth still spinning? Check. Is Robert Pollard’s heart still beating? Check. Then you can be sure a new batch of brilliantly demented lo-fi pop tracks is forthcoming. The Guided By Voices frontman is about to release another project with Ric... more info

Stereogum — Even though Guided By Voices officially broke up last fall, former frontman Robert Pollard has been releasing plenty of material to fill some of that void with his new band Ricked Wicky. Right after Guided By Voices split, we heard “Mobility” fro... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo by John Clark Portland's Eyelids is the project of The Decemberists' John Moen, and Chris Slusarenko who was a Guided by Voices member in the 2000s (both also played together in the Robert Pollard-fronted Boston Spaceships).... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — BuzzFeed is launching a literary magazine and offering writer fellowships. Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. discussed the influence of Guided By Voices' album Alien Lanes at Consequence of Sound. The band Obits has broken up. CBC Books recommende... more info

Stereogum — “The club is open!” No other phrase out of Robert Pollard’s mouth ever rang quite so true. The once-again-former Guided By Voices frontman deals almost exclusively in the surreal, but the climactic lyric from Alien Lanes opener “A Salty Salut... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Bustle and Vol. 1 Brooklyn recommended April's best new books. Pitchfork profiled Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield. Electric Literature interviewed authors Jennifer Egan and James Hannaham. Wondering Sound explored the athletic pasts of Bob and Jim Po... more info

Stereogum — “Tractor Rape Chain” is one of the most classic songs on Bee Thousand, one of Guided By Voices’ most classic albums. And even though the aesthetic difference between modern-day GBV and modern-day Death Cab For Cutie seems vast, the bands explod... more info

Stereogum — A decade ago, when I was a student at Ohio University, every couple weeks I found myself in the front row at a Southeast Engine concert. The band played thoughtful, rugged, ornate folk-rock with strains of Dylan, Wilco, and Bright Eyes in its DNA plu... more info

Stereogum — James Greer first came to prominence as a music journalist, and his memories proved invaluable when I was compiling an oral history of Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Greer then spent time playing in Guided By Voices and ended up writing a b... more info