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

Stereogum — Kizzy Hall are the latest entrants in Ohio’s grand tradition of scrappy, melodic, lo-fi rock ’n’ roll. It’s a lineage that stretches from ’70s DIY innovator Mike “Rep” Hummel to modern-day melodic shit-kickers Connections, most famously... more info

Stereogum — If it weren’t for his job, Matthew Barzun could be mistaken for one of us: his favorite album of the year is the War On Drugs’ Lost In The Dream, he loves Guided By Voices, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Chvrches … but he’s also the United States’... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Guided by Voices @ Bowery Ballroom 5/23/14 Longtime contributing BrooklynVegan photographer Gretchen Robinette shot a bunch of shows for us in 2014, and to wrap up another great year, she's made a list of her favorite photos that she took... more info

Stereogum — Less than a month ago, Guided By Voices announced their for-real-this-time breakup, and it probably shouldn’t suprise anyone that frontman Robert Pollard already has a new thing up and going. Pollard’s new project is called Ricked Wicky, and in a... more info