Guided By Voices have another new album on the way, surprise surprise, and they’re announcing it before their next release is even out. Scalping The Guru, an archival compilation bringing together some older rarities into a cohesive whole, is being released on October 28. The next proper GBV album is called La La Land, and it&#8217...

Waxahatchee and Kevin Morby have teamed up to record a pair of covers in support of the Vote No Kansas PAC: Broadcast’s “Tears In The Typing Pool” and Guided By Voices’ “The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory.” The PAC aims to prevent Kansas’ House Bill 2746 from passing if...

Jeremy Earl, leader of the rustic indie band Woods, started his Woodsist label in 2006, and he started booking his Woodsist Festival in different picturesque places around the country shortly afterwards. Last year, after taking a break for the pandemic, the Woodsist Festival returned, with Yo La Tengo and Parquet Courts headlining a lineup at a ...

Kenny Becker’s LA-based Goon released their Elliott Smith-esque Paint By Numbers, Vol. 1 EP in February with the promise of a second volume eventually. Before that happens, Goon are dropping a completely separate EP. In response to the Supreme Court’s imminent reversal of Roe v. Wade, the band has released their Six Covers EP...

What do you think the phrase “Unproductive Funk” means to Robert Pollard? Does it mean that he sometimes goes an entire morning without writing any scratchy power-pop jams with inscrutable lyrics? A whole day? What? In the entire history of American indie rock, Robert Pollard might be the least unproductive figure out there. ...