[Listen/Download] – Lightouts – “The Cure For Shyness”
Listen to and download the new single from Lightouts, “The Cure For Shyness”.
Listen to and download the new single from Lightouts, “The Cure For Shyness”.
“Let’s Go Eat The Factory” is an uneven album for sure, but it should please GBV fans with a retro hankering and suggests good things for them in future, especially if the whole band starts having as much fun as the returning Tobin Sprout clearly is.
Robert Pollard, lead singer of Boston Spaceships, has always been a prolific musician. Guided By Voices, his first band, often made albums running to around twenty songs. Since disbanding GBV in 2004, though, Pollard has reached James Brown like levels of output, releasing fourteen solo albums in seven years. In 2007, along with three solo [...]
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Some bands seem to lead a charmed life, they form, hit the big time, part as friends and then ride off into the sunset. For every band that happens to though, there are dozens of bands that end up as a clash of egos ending in splits and acrimony. Occasionally however a band breaks up but [...]
There is a fine line between artistic ambition and alienating one’s fan base. Typically, fans rebel when a renowned artist spreads his wings too wide, experimenting with genres that he simply cannot master. Conor Oberst, the visionary behind Bright Eyes, has taken the alternate route. After releasing two disparate albums in 2005, “I’m Wide Awake, [...]
It is nice to see the elderly keeping themselves busy. With Robert Pollard’s failure to release an album since last July, I was beginning to worry that the old man was finally slowing. Instead, it looks like that time was simply spent with a little band you might remember: Guided By Voices. To prove that [...]