Guided By Voices

Saturday, April 2 – Blue Moose Tap House – $30 advance, $35 door

Guided By Voices frontman and its only constant member, Robert Pollard, ended the group’s 18-year tenure in 2003. While Pollard retreated to his four-track recorder in Ohio, a torrent of bands like Times New Viking, No Age and The Vivian Girls would emerge from America’s basements and garages boasting lo-fi pop ditties cribbed from pages penned by GBV.

Now that indie pop has buried its quirky melodies in analog hiss, Pollard and the band’s classic 1993-96 lineup are back to show these upstarts how it should be done. The team who backed Pollard for such seminal recordings as Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes–guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell, bassist Dan Toohey and drummer Kevin Fennell–will rejoin Pollard as the Blue Moose hosts this trip down memory lane, sure to attract legions of fans from across the midwest.