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Today we announce a partnership that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. First deal up: Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand.Released in 1994 by Scat, an independent label then located in Cleveland, Bee Thousand was Guided By Voices' seventh album. The Dayton group, a ragtag lineup of friends centered around Robert Pollard and vast quantities of beer, had been making music together as GBV since 1983. They released a number of other earlier gems (1992's Propeller, 1993's Vampire On Titus, etc.), but this 20-track/tidbit collection crystallized their lo-fi collagist approach to pop songwriting and, via Matador's help with distribution, propelled the band onto stereos far beyond their hometown.
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submitted by Nick Dec 9th 2008 10:00 am (www.pitchforkmedia.com)
Robert Pollard's new band with Guided by Voices pal Chris Slusarenko and drummer John Moen of the Decemberists seems to have reinvigorated the prolific songwriter. Shedding the bloat and eccentricities of his recent projects, Brown Submarine is as direct and tuneful as anything since GBV's heyday.read more
Reuters - Singer-songwriter Robert Pollard, who led the rock group Guided by Voices until its 2004 dissolution, has formed a new band, Boston Spaceships, and plans to release its first album this fall.


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