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philalbinus · 7 months

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A nice tight show but man, standing for more than two hours is a killer at the ripe ol' age of 58 when for Guided By Voices. On the other hand, Bob Pollard is a miracle. The fact that he can sing for two and a half hours is amazing, high kicks, beers and shots of something amber included. Oh, and Kevin March remains the best drummer in Rock and Roll and Doug Gillard is one tasty guitarists.

#GBV #Guided by Voices #Robert Pollard #Kevin March #Doug Gillard #White Eagle Hall #October 7

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alfairb · 1 year

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I'm head of the class I'm popular I'm a quarter back I'm popular My mom says I'm a catch I'm popular I'm never last picked I got a cheerleader chick

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riylcast · 2 months

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For a few decades now, it seems like Doug Gillard is everywhere. He's the second longest tenured member of the wildly prolific Guided By Voices, behind frontman, Robert Pollard, having been in and out (mostly in) of the band since the mid-90s. He is also a long-time guitarist for alternative rock stalwarts, Nada Surf, having played with the group since 2010. His work has earned him spots on the linear notes of many of indie rock's biggest names, as he continues playing with a variety of of groups, including the early Beatles homage, Bambi Kino.

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differenthead · 4 months

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Volume 285

0:00:00 — "Dayflower" by Cathedral Bells (2021)

0:02:47 — "Find My Way" by Swiss Portrait (2021)

0:06:40 — "Dave Brubeck" by Vacations (2016)

0:08:40 — DJ

0:12:26 — "Fixing Motorcycles" by Chime School (2021)

0:15:39 — "End of the Lion" by Mick Trouble (2019)

0:17:30 — "What Do You Want Me to Do?" by The Whiffs (2019)

0:19:48 — "Good Eye" by Mini Dresses (2019)

0:22:40 — "Disciples" by Tame Impala (2015)

0:24:19 — DJ

0:29:19 — "Kill the Time" by Home Front (2021)

0:33:54 — "Letter" by Dehd (2020)

0:37:05 — "Tom the Model" by Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man (2002)

0:40:38 — "(But) I See Something" by Doug Gillard (2004)

0:44:31 — DJ

0:49:02 — "Runt på Stranden" by ShitKid (2021)

0:51:46 — "On a Summer Holiday" by Fascinations Grand Chorus (2022)

0:54:44 — "Full Screen" by Adult Mom (2017)

0:57:15 — "Shut Up Kiss Me" by Angel Olsen (2016)

1:00:34 — "Égoîste" by Laure Briard (2015)

1:03:02 — DJ

1:07:26 — "Hey, Maybe One Day You'll See Me Again" by Viper (2009)

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#cathedral bells #swiss portrait #vacations #chime school #mick trouble #the whiffs #mini dresses #tame impala #home front #dehd #beth gibbons #rustin man #doug gillard #shitkid #fascinations grand chorus #adult mom #angel olsen #laure briard #viper

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spilladabalia · 10 months

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Guided By Voices - Meet The Star

#guided by voices #gbv #meet the star #robert pollard #doug gillard #kevin march #mark shue #bobby bare jr #welshpool frillies #2023 #Youtube

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stevenvenn · 2 years

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Nada Surf - Always Love (from The Weight Is a Gift) John ended his show today on KEXP with this great hit by Nada Surf. Sometimes you hear a song that hits you at just the right moment. I needed to hear this today. Thanks, John.

#nada surf #always love #the weight is a gift #matthew caws #daniel lorca #ira elliot #doug gillard #nyc #barsuk records #alternative rock #indie rock #music

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sinceileftyoublog · 8 months

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GBV 40

Photo by Allison Ryder

BY JORDAN MAINZER

It's a popular wink-wink-nod-nod joke among the diehard Guided By Voices fanbase that dedicated GBV fandom is #notacult (but kind of a cult). You'd think that Robert Pollard and company were in on the joke, considering they decided to celebrate 40 years of the band's existence at a venue built by a 14-group Masonic Temple Association, which is a true story and not the name of the band's new single. As a full disclosure converted GBV head who has in the past attended Heedfest, the band's long-running fan weekend chock full of cover sets and Miller Lites, this first weekend in September absolutely felt like an extension of it, a full-on celebration of all things Guided By Voices. Celebrity superfan Paddy Considine came from overseas with his son Joe, playing a covers set at the Yellow Cab Tavern in Dayton's Oregon District. During the encore of GBV's first night at the Dayton Masonic Center, Scott Marshall (of Chavez fame), Matador Records Director of Digital, A&R Jake Whitener, and GBV manager David Newgarden presented Pollard with a "Most Valuable Lead Singer" trophy. Even Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, normally reserved, gave the crowd a half-hearted "G! B! V!" chant during the band's opening set. Miller Lites at the venue (along with most other beer) cost a measly $6 per can, a bargain in 2023. During the second night, Pollard took a moment to thank the alcohol distributor, who may or may not have been stocking his personal cooler full of beer bottles and the once-again passed around Jose Cuervo. What's for sure is those bottles were fueling Pollard's high-kicks, 2022 busted knee be damned. Always different, always the same: It was The Fall. Is it now Guided By Voices?

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Yes, the same spirit pervades GBV: In a recent beginner's guide to the band, Uproxx critic Steven Hyden described them as having "one foot in the bowling alley, and another foot in the art gallery," whether that's the band's early R.E.M.-indebted material, lo-fi golden era, Aughts arena rock attempts, or the current, arguably most prolific late-career lineup. The quartet of guitarists Doug Gillard and Bobby Bare Jr., bassist Mark Shue, and drummer Kevin March is certainly the most formidable group of instrumentalists to ever back Pollard, and his songwriting on this lineup's albums has notably embraced the proggier, more epic side of his forebears. During the band's anniversary concerts, they paid curatorial attention to these newfound favorites just as much as the "Motor Away" and "Tractor Rape Chain"s: the tempo-changing "Alex Bell", bopping "Dance of Gurus", and even absurdist poem "Razor Bug", delivered a capella by Pollard and Shue. Pollard also admitted how the band tackles the old imperfections, joking that March made sure to play all the original studio version "fuck-ups" from "My Impression Now".

But GBV also had work to do. This year so far, they've released two albums, La La Land and live-to-tape gem Welshpool Frillies, and purportedly (shocker) have two more in the can. Only this band could garner this much crowd enthusiasm by opening a four-decade celebration with the first three songs from their latest album, but when they're as good as the jagged "Meet the Star", cascading "Cruisers' Cross", and Cheap Trick-meets-Crazy Horse ripper "Romeo Surgeon", it doesn't really matter, does it? The sets in general were treated like a normal GBV marathon, featuring but not overwhelmingly dominated by their most recent output. Gillard's trademark guitars chimed through the sludgy "Seedling", while La La Land's "Queen of Spaces" offered a necessarily languid breather between "Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)" and "Motor Away". To my pleasure, on night two, the band played La La Land closer "Pockets", a song about exactly what you think, that nonetheless exemplifies Pollard's ethos: As long as you have a sense of wonder and a penchant for songwriting, you can maintain constant creativity. Songwriting can be a daily exercise.

Built to Spill

Throughout the celebration, Pollard expressed thanks for past and present incarnations of GBV (joking that the current youngins help him up the stairs) as well as the other bands joining the celebration. The inspired lineup was a mix of 90's contemporaries (Dinosaur Jr,, Built to Spill), Dayton connections (the birthplace of Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom and Dino J.'s Lou Barlow), and new indie rock royalty (Kiwi Jr., Wednesday). Dinosaur Jr., Marshalls stacked upon Marshalls, treated the crowd to eternity-long fuzz jams heavy on their earliest albums, from "Gargoyle" and their faithful "Just Like Heaven" cover to "The Lung" and "Freak Scene". The next night, Built to Spill also offered a set with plenty of guitar solos and extended intros and codas, respectively bookending the set on the slow-burning "Stop The Show" and eternal "Carry The Zero". As for their (sort-of) cover, they chose The Halo Benders' "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" and not Heartless Bastards' "The Mountain" since, well, the real thing had played right before them.

Heartless Bastards

Heartless Bastards are not a band you'd normally associate with 90's indie rock, though I wouldn't have expected Built to Spill bassist Melanie Radford to sing Wennerstrom's part so convincingly last time I saw BTS. Wennestrom and Martsch came out with Heartless Bastards on night two for "The Mountain", but I saw where the Texas-via-Ohio rockers fit in with the band lineup even more on other songs. Yes, their brand of blues-rock is unique, not quite punchy, certainly eschewing raw psychedelia for grooves or high and lonesome country. But while Wennerstrom's throaty singing led the hazy "Photograph", the song's instrumental outro with gorgeous guitar work snuggled beside Wednesday and Built to Spill. And the chugging back catalog highlight "Gray" came across almost like a GBV ripper with keyboards.

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And then there were the up and comers. Toronto's Kiwi Jr. combined the instrumental concision of GBV with the storytelling of a band like Wednesday. They took from their three very good records, concentrating on their Sub Pop albums Cooler Returns and Chopper in their brief set, contextualizing "Maid Marian's Toast" and "The Sound of Music" (about insurance fraud and Christopher Plummer), easing the crowd into a night of clatter. Wednesday, meanwhile, was the unabashed non-GBV highlight of the entire festival, the band that converted the unfamiliar and justified those of us who have hyped them up. Their quintessential country-gaze was on full display from the moment they queued up the buzz saws of "Hot Rotten Grass Smell". "Chosen to Deserve" was the bonafide ne'er-do-well anthem, the song of the summer for the bad kids, Xandy Chelmis absolutely slaying on pedal steel. Of course, lead vocalist Karly Hartzman's drawl-cum-yodel was the perfect medium to communicate stories of people dying in Planet Fitness parking lots, getting electrocuted by your own house, and toothless men on oxygen tanks smoking cigarettes. But it was "Bull Believer" that absolutely brought the house down, tears in the eyes of people who had never heard the song before. In a rare move on a normally apolitical GBV stage, Hartzman decried the nadirs of the nation, from the return of student loan payments to the policing of Black and Brown and LGBTQ+ bodies. She invited the crowd to scream along in anger as she beckoned "Finish him!" Perhaps that's what even implored Pollard to, out of nowhere between "Twilight Campfire" and "To Keep An Area", declare, "We live in a shitty country...Everything is crooked as fuck!" It was a small moment, perhaps inconsequential, but one that really hammered down for me that after all these years, Pollard's done what he's always done: change.

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dustedmagazine · 9 months

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Guided by Voices — Welshpool Frillies (Guided by Voices Inc.)

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Welshpool Frillies is the second Guided by Voice album of 2023. Perhaps more importantly, it’s the first of Pollard’s live post-pandemic discs, recorded as all GBV albums are meant to be, live in a room with five grizzled vets rocking out. And so while La La Land entertained itself with baroque complexities (said I, “Brash, fuzzy guitar riffs collide with twining, folk-derived modal melodies, sure, just like always, but the song structures are more complicated and open-ended than you remember from Isolation Drills.”). Welshpool Frillies digs right back into the basics. It slaps in the most elemental way, on clanging power chords and thumping rhythms and Pollard’s bright absurdities cranked to top volume.

It starts in jagged power pop with “Meet the Star,” whose riff rubs back and forth like flint on tinder, conjuring the fire with pure friction. From this swaggering heaviness floats weightless melody, lines that curve upward like balloons let off their strings. “Meet the star/ his plectrum strums/a universal web,” Pollard croons, both enmeshed in and separate from the roiling noise. The tune is crushingly heavy and confectionary at the same time.

This is the same band that Pollard has marshalled for the last string of albums, Doug Gillard and Bobby Bare Jr. on guitar, Mark Shue on bass and Kevin March on drums. They are lifers to a man, with skills burned in deep enough and over a long enough period to seem effortless. The sound is monolithically tight, but unpremeditated and fluid, the kind of sound you get when everyone hits their marks the first time (and every time).

I like “Rust Belt Boogie” maybe the best, its rupturing, continuous explosion of drums, its layered anarchy of three guitars and bass, its wide angle, kraut-rock-ish propulsion. It zooms like an old t-bird over flat midwestern highways. There are plenty of bangers, but also the jangly lyricism of “Chain Dance,” which has a bit of “Awful Bliss” in its loose-stringed melancholy. And “Seedling,” the single, is good too, circling around a descending riff before it settles into rolling forward motion. Here in the chorus, the band joins together for a little bit in rough, triumphant unison, and while it’s always good to hear Guided by Voices, in whatever circumstances, it is especially great to hear them together, all in the same room, once again.

Jennifer Kelly

#guided by voices #welshpool frillies #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #rock #lo-fi #indie #ohio

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aquariumdrunkard · 2 years

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

Sunshine soul. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Intro ++ Lilys – A Nanny In Manhattan ++ The Gerbils – Sunshine Soul ++ The Olivia Tremor Control – Memories of Jacqueline 1906 ++ Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard – And I Don’t (So Now I Do) ++ Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 ++ Elf Power – Undigested Parts ++ The Olivia Tremor Control – Fireplace ++ The Olivia Tremor Control – Love Athena ++ The Glands – Livin’ Was Easy ++ Lilys – Can’t Make Your Life Better ++ The Minders – Hooray For Tuesday ++ Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t – Moon River ++ Of Montreal – Coquelicot Claude And Lecithin Dance Aboard The Ocean Liner >> Oslo In The Summertime ++ The Long Winters – Fire Island, AK ++ Islands – Volcanoes ++ Circulatory System – Yesterday’s World ++ Quasi – I Never Want To See You Again ++ The Halo Benders – Snowfall ++ Ham1 – Clown-Shoed Feet ++ Jonathan Richman – I Was Dancing At The Lesbian Bar ++ Half Japanese – One Million Kisses ++ Destroyer – Streethawk I ++ A.C. Newman – Drink To Me Babe Then ++ Destroyer – Hey, Snow White ++ Stephen Malkmus – Baby C’mon ++ Guided By Voices – Hot Freaks >> Demons Are Real >> Tractor Rape Chain ++ Yo La Tengo – You Can Have It All > Autumn Sweater ++ Beat Happening – Indian Summer ++ LUNA – Friendly Advice ++ Electralane – Birds ++ The Breeders – Happiness Is A Warm Gun ++ Magnetic Fields – Strange Powers | art michael hentz

#aquariumdrunkard #Michael Hentz

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reconprate · 1 month

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Valley Lodge

Valley Lodge “Daylights” Shadows in Paradise (04-19-2024) NYC band headed by Dave Hill (formerly of Cobra Verde and who is also a hilarious comedian) have its third album coming out soon. This is the second pre-release form it. The band includes Rob Pfeiffer (Sense Field) and Eddie Eyeball (2 Skinnee J’s). This song also features Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Nada Surf), Jen Valle, and Sean…

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lastchancevillagegreen · 1 month

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Tuesday, 19 March 2024:

The Drop Beneath Eternal Summers (Kanine) (released in 2014)

I recently documented my efforts to chase this discography and that I had picked up the band's final album. The final two albums I needed came in this week courtesy of bandcamp (via the band's label). I'll start listening to their output come April (I'll start this month in the final week by playing their debut EP which I've played a couple of times already).

Above you see the album cover and the back of the album. It's pretty funny discovering that the producer is Doug Gillard as he was one time of huge importance in my house in the '90s as he was the guitarist for Guided By Voices. Below you can see the gatefold of the album.

The album comes in a custom inner sleeve and you can see both the front and the back of it below.

This album is pressed on orange marbled vinyl. You can see the two photos below, even if that Sunshine Short is barely worth even worth looking at.

The A and B side of the record label ends this entry.

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elsantodelrock · 1 year

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Gramercy Arms: Yesterday's Girl

Gramercy Arms es el colectivo musical establecido en Nueva York por Dave Derby (The Dambuilders), quien en colaboración con artistas como Lloyd Cole, Kevin March (Guided by Voices, Shudder to Think, The Dambuilders), Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, Cobra Verde, Death of Samantha), Sean Eden (Luna), Mark Lizotte (Diesel), Phoebe Summersquash (Small Factory), Rainy Orteca (Joan As Police…

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prettyinnoise · 1 year

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Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (LP) (2022 Repress) (09.12.2022)

Sie können einfach nicht anders, die alten Schwerenöter, die sich mit dem Ex-Guided by Voices-Gitarristen Doug Gillard an der 2ten Klampfe verstärkt haben. Die ewige Flamme von Liebe, Trennung, Versöhnung und Menschlichkeit lodert in den Texten hell, mit einem leicht melancholischen Flimmern in Chords und Gesang innerhalb der Songs. Aber hey, die sind richtig gut unterwegs auf ihrem 8ten Album…

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xe1gqp · 2 years

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17 de agosto de 1960, El grupo The Beatles, que entonces eran cinco, se subían por primera vez a un escenario, en el "Indra Club", un cabaret de Hamburgo de segunda categoría, y que sigue existiendo. Los Beatles dieron luego centenares de conciertos en la ciudad alemana entre 1960 y 1962. Para celebrar este 50 aniversario, cuatro músicos estadounidenses de distintos grupos, Ira Elliot (Nada Surf, Maplewood), Erik Paparazzi (Cat Power), Mark Rozzo (Maplewood) y Doug Gillard (Guided By Voices), crearon en 2009 el grupo "Bambi Kino", del nombre del cine de Hamburgo especializado en westerns y películas pornográficas, en el que los Beatles se alojaron en sus inicios, en una habitación sin ventana, ni baño, ni calefacción. Un museo se abrió en 2009 en Hamburgo para celebrar el culto de los Beatles. El edificio de cinco pisos relata el inicio de los "Fab Four", cinco jóvenes músicos ingleses de entre 17 y 20 años (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe y Pete Best), sin Ringo Starr, al que conocieron en Hamburgo. El año pasado, Paul McCartney había iniciado su gira europea en esta ciudad. (view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2aZvZ30) (en Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChXfo6cL0B6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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guerrilla-operator · 3 years

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#guided by voices #robert pollard #indie rock #alternative rock #indie pop #lo-fi #nate farley #doug gillard #tim tobias #rock #indie #pop

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sinceileftyoublog · 2 years

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Square Roots 2022: 7/8-7/9

BY JORDAN MAINZER

In its first incarnation since the pandemic, Lincoln Square’s preeminent summer street festival, Square Roots, continued its penchant for expanding the average person’s definition of “roots” music. This year’s lineup, with the likes of Bob Mould and DEHD, made the case for punk being just as big of a part of America’s roots as any type of music, while still showcasing the best of the Midwest in folk and indie rock.

Ten years ago, the best reason to see Mould would be to hear a pitch-perfect mix of classic songs from Hüsker Dü, Sugar, and his perennially underrated solo career. But over the past six years, specifically, he’s been on a real heater. 2016′s Patch the Sky is potentially his best post-Workbook solo record, and unlike last time I saw him, Friday night, he played both “Voices in My Head” and “Black Confetti”, the former a nice change of tempo after a flurry of Hüsker Dü heavyweights like “Never Talking to You Again” and “Celebrated Summer”. 2019′s Sunshine Rock had its moments, and Mould burned through one of its unabashed highlights, the unintentionally Yeah Yeah Yeahs quoting title track. And as this will be the first year Mould will be able to fully tour his pummeling protest album, 2020′s Blue Hearts (Merge), it was the solo album from which he thankfully pulled the most. Bassist Jason Narducy offered soaring harmonies on “Siberian Butterfly” and screams on “Next Generation”, while “Forecast Of Rain” and “The Ocean” played the role of “Voices In My Head” in the set, a break before the flurry of madness.

Guided By Voices, meanwhile, are used to Mould’s challenge. They’ve released two of three planned albums in 2022, and both are some of the strongest with the Robert Pollard-Doug Gillard-Bobby Bare Jr.-Mark Shue-Kevin March lineup. Both Crystal Nuns Cathedral and Tremblers And Goggles By Rank (Guided by Voices Inc.) continue the band’s prog rock-inspired streak. A few songs on the former are bolstered by cello from Chris George, like the slow-lurching, yet mammoth “Eye City”. Saturday night, GBV played what I thought would be the most challenging of those to pull off life, “Climbing A Ramp”, which is almost entirely built on George’s strings. That said, Gillard, who rips solos with the best of them, carried the song to the end and right into his masterpiece “I Am A Tree”. I would have liked to have heard a song like “Re-Develop”, with its soaring vocals around acoustic-to-electric guitar lines, or “Never Mind The List”, a tune that has the potential to become a crowd shout-along for years to come. “Go inside, let us play / And I’ll always throw another list away,” sings Pollard on that one, perhaps referring to the band’s time-honored tradition of giving away their setlists at the end of shows.

Tremblers And Goggles By Rank, on the other hand, basks in the lyrical non-sequiturs that define GBV, returning from the rare moments of thematic clarity on Crystal Nuns Cathedral. As it’s the more recent of the two, the band played from it more than they did any album, even Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes. They led off the set with the choppy “Unproductive Funk”. “Boomerang” was the clanging respite between anthems “Tractor Rape Chain” and “The Best of Jill Hives”. Of the two The Who Sell Out-inspired tunes on Tremblers And Goggles By Rank, Pollard and company opted for the power pop of “Alex Bell” over the album’s pseudo title track. While “Alex Bell” is a name portmanteau of two of the co-founders of Big Star, its ambitious structure is certainly a far cry from the ear candy of Chilton and Chris Bell. I was perhaps most surprised to hear 6+-minute Tremblers closer “Who Wants To Go Hunting”, which makes use of pianos and timpani; Gillard at least triggered some noise for good measure.

The two bands that played before Guided By Voices on the festival’s main stage have been following formulas that work for them for years, kind of like GBV themselves (well, up until these past few years’ delving into prog rock). But instead of indie rock ditties, Chicago’s DEHD thrive with lovelorn surf punk and Minneapolis’ The Cactus Blossoms with languid country folk. The former recently released their fourth studio album and Fat Possum debut Blue Skies, produced by the band’s singer/guitarist Jason Balla and mixed and mastered by heavyweights Craig Silvey and Heba Kadry, respectively. Indeed, Blue Skies combines the ethos of previous records like Flower Of Devotion with more tools at the band’s disposal, from the personnel involved to access to more instruments. It’s their best record yet, but its success is more due to the band refining what they do to a science. “Run, baby run” and “Walk, baby walk” are calls that pervade two of the live highlights from the new album, bopping even more than “Dream Baby Dream”. The former comes from Blue Skies lead single “Bad Love”, which combines almost all of the things DEHD do well: Emily Kempf’s bellowing vocals, Balla’s twangy guitars, drummer Eric McGrady’s two-snare gallop. “Run, baby, run / Run from the bad love / New love baby, come on honey, gimme some,” is a paean to the optimism of summer crushes, tailor made for a festival set.

The Cactus Blossoms played greatly from their most recent album One Day (Walkie Talkie), whose best songs combine dark themes with breezy instrumentals. Despite the googly eyed choogle of a song like “Desperado” or the retro sway of “I’m Calling You”, the brother-led band isn’t all roses, and One Day exemplifies their complexity. Take a track like “Ballad of an Unknown”, soft psychedelia that’s actually a story about a vagrant suffering from society’s lack of care, the opposite of hippie idealism. On “Is It Over”, Jack Torrey and Page Burkum sing, “All washed up, you're bound to fall / Just waiting for the curtain call,” a sense of fatalism hovering above their pleasantries. Of course, listening to the band in a crowd of people drinking good beer is pleasant, not lost on The Cactus Blossoms. One Day’s “Everybody” was a surefire set highlight despite its absence of Jenny Lewis (who guests on the studio version). “Everybody tryin’ to do what’s right / Everybody stayin’ up all night / Everybody waitin’ for the light,” is a simple, but true sentiment, especially heartfelt delivered in unison with a buzzed crowd. And of course, You’re Dreaming centerpiece “Change Your Ways Or Die” is the best tick-tock chug this side of the late, great Walkmen.

Overall, Square Roots continues to be the best street festival of the summer thanks to its cohesive identity. I can’t wait to see what comes in 2023.

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