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Guided by Voices’ August by Cake: FLOOD Review

Guided by Voices’ August by Cake album cover

Here is my album review of Guided by Voices’ terrific August by Cake — the 100th release by frontman Bob Pollard. “By the time its 71 minutes are up, ‘August by Cake’ leaves a resin-free aftertaste.”

Revising History: Wooden Wand On Guided By Voices, Black Flag, Rolling Stones, More

Posted in Features, Interviews, Revising History with tags Ace Frehley, Black Flag, Brownie McGhee, Cockney Rebel, Deniz Tek, Dr. Feelgood, Guided by Voices, James Toth, Jim Ford, Johnny Dowd, Kiss, Royal Trux, Slaughter Joe, Sonny Terry, the Cure, the Durutti Column, the Feelies, the Gris-Gris, the Roches, the Rolling Stones, the Vanishing Voice, Tom Verlaine, Tompall Glaser, Wooden Wand on 10/27/2010 by korzeck

Over the years, James Jackson Toth has quietly proven himself to be one of the more undervalued American songwriters out there. Calling to mind a broad array of characters from the canon of great music – Captain Beefheart, Willie Nelson, Sun Ra and more – the man better known as Wooden Wand has been making a case that, perhaps, eventually, he should stack right up there with those legends. For the most poetic edition yet in the Bad Penny’s “Revising History” series, Toth touched on the Rolling Stones’ “Coming Down Again,” Guided by Voices’ “Chicken Blows,” Black Flag’s “Three Nights” and other songs he wishes he had made. Continue reading →

Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard: ‘There Are Some Songs I Don’t Even Remember Doing’

Posted in Interviews with tags Circus Devils, Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, Tim Tobias on 10/01/2010 by korzeck

With just a few hours till the “Matador at 21” kickoff, here’s another interview from the vaults. Previously unavailable online, this one’s with Robert Pollard of recently reunited legends Guided by Voices, who promise to do it up Vegas-style when they close the extravaganza Sunday night. Continue reading →