Self-inflicted Aural Nostalgia

The last LP featuring the so-called classic lineup. 

After three records in 2012, this was the band’s only record from 2013.

What we talk about when we talk about prolific. It’s GBV's third LP of 2012. 

You wanted a reunion, you got a reunion. It's the second GBV LP of 2012. (And there’s a third.) 

A discussion with the author of the Robert Pollard biography, Closer You Are.

You call that a break up? It’s the triumphant return of GBV’s classic lineup. 

It’s the end of Guided By Voices. For a couple of years anyway.

My Son, My Secretary, My Country, My Look at GBV LP #14. 

GBV heads back to the lake for LP #13. And back to Matador Records.

Adam Shore, the man who signed GBV to TVT, talks about working with the band, getting kicked out of the Pine Club, and why going to see the band play live is like going to church. 

Divorce, drinking and poetry written at ninety miles an hour. 

GBV’s most controversial record. I’ll be the someone who tells you why. 

Bob pairs up with Cleveland band Cobra Verde for a record that sounds like the Who, except on all those tracks where it doesn’t.

Kim Deal. Steve Albini. Robert Pollard. What could go wrong? 

Dud? Masterpiece? Bombastic? Steve Albini’s cat? It’s Alien Lanes.Support the show

Here’s my discussion with the man who first signed GBV, and who gave The Grand Hour, Vampire on Titus, and Bee Thousand to the world.

Take an audio tour of an indie rock masterpiece, GBV’s 1994 record, Bee Thousand. 

Shocker in Dayton: GBV gets signed, plays shows, and releases a lo-fi classic.

The indie rock classic that almost never got heard.

Drinking, destruction, murder, and madness. It’s GBV’s fourth record, and their first classic.