Topix — The nostalgic air of the '90s hangs heavy over Dallas with this week's batch of concert announcements. Counting Crows, Live, Dandy Warhols, Backstreet Boys, Guided By Voices and Alison Krauss all made names for themselves two decades ago. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Bonny Doon's Longwave, Cavern of Anti-Matter's Hormone Lemonade, Erika Wennerstrom's Sweet Unknown, Lissie's Castles, and Richmond Fontaine's Don't Skip Out on Me are this week's new albums I can recommend. Guided by Voices' Space Gun and Jack White'... more info

Rolling Stone — During the last few years, we've been deluged with great new guitar bands, many showing an obsessive love for indie rock's early-Nineties golden age – whether it's Parquet Courts taking vintage Pavement in directions that never reall... more info

Consequence of Sound — The latest incarnation of Robert Pollard’s band delivers a 15-track effort. more info

Obscure Sound — Purgatorial Hearts by Guy Grogan Guy Grogan has impressed in the two previous years, with 2016’s “My Own Way Out” and 2017’s “Stick the Landing”. They both showed the one-man-band and Santa Fe-based singer/songwriter as an admirer of alt-... more info

Stereogum — Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard releases approximately one million albums every year, and his latest is not a conventional one by any means. He's adopted a parodic country music alter ego named Cash Rivers -- who he first unveiled on a 7" last year ... more info

Stereogum — Guided By Voices have already released two albums this year -- How Do You Spell Heaven and August By Cake -- and they've just announced a new one due out next year. Space Gun is coming in March, and GBV shared the title track. Listen and check out th... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — On September 9 Pitchfork and October came together to put on the first OctFest, a one-day craft beer and music festival that took place at the Brooklyn Hanger in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The festival featured live performances from Guided By Voices, Ok... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Britpop Now! Yeah! There is a little of that, judiciously selected, in our 1995 roundup but also a reminder that very interesting things were happening just out of that sightline both in the fringes and in dance areas and American lo-fi (Number One C... more info

KEXP Seattle — Philly-based band The Districts return with their third LP, what KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls, “their strongest set to date, with a fuller, more dynamic and densely textured sound combining thick, swirling guitars, muscular rhythms and often... more info