{"id":47028,"date":"2018-06-13T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=47028"},"modified":"2018-06-13T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:45:31","slug":"the-end-of-all-music-and-proud-larrys-present-guided-by-voices-saturday-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-end-of-all-music-and-proud-larrys-present-guided-by-voices-saturday-june-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of All Music and Proud Larry\u2019s Present Guided By Voices Saturday, June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Twenty-two years ago in 1994, 38-year-old school teacher <strong>Robert Pollard<\/strong> and his merry band recorded <em><strong>Bee Thousand<\/strong><\/em> in a Dayton, Ohio, basement on a 4-track cassette recorder. This improbable rock classic became an enormously influential album;<em> Spin<\/em> and Pitchfork have called it one of the best records of the \u201990s, and Amazon picked <em>Bee Thousand<\/em> as #1 on their list of the <strong>100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of All Time<\/strong>. An amazing live band with a rabid following, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> called<strong> Guided By Voices<\/strong> \u201cthe Grateful Dead equivalent for people who like Miller Lite instead of acid!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2018, Guided By Voices will release precisely one new album, <em><strong>Space Gun<\/strong><\/em>. Once you hear it, you will know why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With a renowned work ethic and a daily pot of coffee, Robert Pollard continues to outclass younger generations of come-and-go rock bands. After 20+ years, 100+ albums, 2000+ songs, Pollard still can\u2019t really explain (or doesn\u2019t want to explain) his secret: \u201cThe songs just come to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2017, the new GBV line-up (veterans <strong>Doug Gillard<\/strong> and <strong>Kevin March<\/strong> and newcomers <strong>Mark Shue<\/strong> and <strong>Bobby Bare Jr<\/strong>) blew away audiences at <strong>Coachella<\/strong> and <strong>Growlers Fest<\/strong>, touring behind the ambitious and sprawling multi-vocalist double album <em><strong>August By Cake<\/strong><\/em>, followed just months later by the concise punchy\/catchy <em><strong>How Do You Spell Heaven<\/strong><\/em>. Pollard has acknowledged that this line-up\u2019s adroit talents pushes him to more daring and dizzying heights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And now, here it comes . . . <em>Space Gun<\/em>, the fullest realization yet of Pollard\u2019s song talents, with the band firing on all cylinders. \u201cHere it comes, here it comes, here it comes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Invention and imagination remain the undiminished life-forces of a Guided by Voices record and <em>Space Gun<\/em> absolutely crackles with this energy. 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