Baltimore City Paper: Beer Thousand (May 16 - May
John Sewell looks at the direction of the band as a May 19th Baltimore appearance approaches.
Boston Phoenix
Boston's self-proclaimed "Alternative Source for Arts and Entertainment" offers Jon Garelick's take on the band's last show in Beantown.
Bulletin Board
A forum dedicated to discussion of the Dayton, OH rock group. Touted as the "official" message board site.
ChartAttack: GbV Take The Rock Geek Elitist Quiz
Matt Mernagh presents a question and answer session with the band from a meet-and-greet preshow party in Toronto.
chords and lyrics
The lyrics and some limited chord information on a plethora of early GbV tunes.
Drowned in Sound
Alex Wisgard pens a very favorable review of "Half Smiles" for drownedinsound.com.
Event profile: Atlanta's Variety Playhouse
An event profile for the band's May 16, 2001 show in Atlanta, GA. Includes reader reaction.
GBVDB - Guided By Voices Database
Searchable GBV discography and gigography site including side projects. Contains detailed release and song version info, images, credits, setlists, Propeller Art Gallery and other features.
Guided By Robert Pollard
An alternative to the official GbV site, with a separate photos section, an interview by John Chandler of Puncture magazine with Bob Pollard, and a "Guided by Doug Gillard" subsection with info on the guitarist/songwriter's other band experiences.
Guided By Voices
The official site for the band, offering MP3 and wav files of GbV studio and live recordings, info on associated members' projects, photo albums, tour dates, and the latest GbV and Fading Captain series news.
Guided by Voices News: Topix.net
News about Guided by Voices continually updated from around the net.
Heraldsphere: anthemic pop wonder
Nicholas Jaster reviews Pollard's career, the band's direction, and gives "Isolation Drills" four stars.
Hershey Chronicle
The online presence of the Hershey Chronicle, serving Hershey, Hummelstown, Palmyra and Derry Township, with Todd Thatcher's review of GbV's farewell offering, "Half Smiles of the decomposed."
Interview with Robert Pollard
From March 1999, an interview conducted over a bottle of Wild Turkey by David Rosenheim with band frontman Pollard. Larger site includes reviews of several albums, including Isolation Drills and Universal Truths and Cycles.
Largehearted Boy GBV Radio
Shoutcast stream of Guided By Voices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Includes the music of Robert Pollard and his various side projects, covers by other bands of GbV classics, complete live concerts, super-lo-fi demos and rare versions and music by associated acts like Yo La Tengo.
Matador Records
The Matador records website for Guided by Voices, the label releasing all material up to 1997 and since 2002 for the band. Includes contest, recording, merchandise and tour info.
Pitchfork
Eric Carr's extensive review of the latest from GbV, Earthquake Glue.
Pitchfork
Rob Mitchum gives his extensive take on GbV's final offering as well as dissecting Robert Pollard's career.
PopMatters: Universal Truths and Cycles
Somewhat new to the music of GbV, David Antrobus tackles the new album, "Earthquake Glue", and finds himself inspired to delve into the band's back catalog.
Robert Pollard and His Soft Rock Renegades: Choreo
Pitchfork review of the latest Rockathon/Recordhead release by Robert Pollard, featuring the former GbV mainstays Greg Demos and Jim Macpherson. Review by Matt LeMay, who gives the effort a 7.4.
Rockathon Records
Homepage of the independent label releasing most non-Matador/TVT Guided-by-Voices-related material, including some Greg Demos material.
RockNet's Roch on Music
Roch Parisien gives "Under the Bushes, Under the Stars" four stars (on a scale from 1-5).
Rockpile: Shrine to the Dynamic Years, Goodbye to
John Wenzel takes a comprehensive look at where the band stands, exploring areas like why the end of GbV and what's next (a double album featuring Pollard and Todd Tobias sarcastically entitled "American Superdream Wow".
Rolling Stone video interview
Well-produced video interview by Greg Kot with Robert Pollard Streams in Real, Quicktime and WinMedia at various bandwidths.
Salon: Sharps and Flats
A review of the Matador release "Mag Earwig" by Mark Athitakis. Includes an .aiff version of "Bulldog Skin".
Soul Shine Magazine : Time To Say Goodbye To Guide
Canadian magazine talks about GbV's reported end.
Splendid E-zine: Isolation Drills
A review by Jason Jackowiak who says, "Isolation Drills rocks harder than anything else in GBV's seemingly endless canon."
Stuff Magazing: In Bob We Trust
Lengthy interview with Robert Pollard from April 2003, by Cory Jones. Bob shares a few possible song titles while discussing the Pollard creative process.
The Phoenix Online: Isolation Drills
Swarthmore College's online student newspaper takes a look at GbV's latest disc.
The Voices, The Voices: Robert Pollard continues t
John Sewell analyzes the band's position prior to their March 1, 2001 appearance at Moose's Music Hall in Knoxville, TN.
The War Against Silence #13
TWAS, a weekly music review website, looks at 15 albums, from "Sandbox" to "Alien Lanes".
Their voices have changed
The Washington Post's David Segal reviews GbV's 2001 release "Isolation Drills".
TVT Records
Page for the band's current label, featuring the 2001 release "Isolation Drills". A scrapbook, tour dates, band news and message board are included.