The GBV Project — Week 46: Crystal Nuns Cathedral
The Release: Crystal Nuns Cathedral (LP—GBVi, 2022) In the summer of 1998, my friends and I saw Frank Black and The Catholics atRead More…
Year: 2025
The GBV Project — Week 45: It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!
The Releases: It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! (LP—GBVi, 2021) In 2007, I embarked upon a year-long project to liRead More…
The GBV Project — Week 44: Earth Man Blues
The Releases: Earth Man Blues (LP—GBVi, 2021) Any serious attempt to peek into the artistic mind of Robert Pollard will quickly Read More…
The GBV Project — Week 43: Styles We Paid For
The Releases: Styles We Paid For (LP—GBVi, 2020) Studying the history of rock/pop journalism reveals a longstanding fascination Read More…
The GBV Project — Week 42: Mirrored Aztec
The Releases: Mirrored Aztec (LP—GBVi, 2020) This past week I had a friend—and Strange Currencies contributor—in town for a Read More…
The GBV Project — Week 41: Surrender Your Poppy Field
The Releases: Surrender Your Poppy Field (LP—GBVi, 2020) / Volcano (Single—GBVi, 2020) / Man Called Blunder (Single—GBVi, 2020) Read More…
Catalog Crawl: Guided by Voices (The EPs)
Music nerds love ranked lists. Music nerds love thoughtful commentary. Music nerds love carefully curated playlists. Catalog Crawl provides all oRead More…
The GBV Project — Week 40: Sweating the Plague
The Releases: Sweating the Plague (LP—GBVi, 2019) / Heavy Like the World (Single—GBVi, 2019) While working through this year-lRead More…
The GBV Project — Week 39: Warp and Woof
The Releases: Warp and Woof (LP—GBVi, 2019) / Wine Cork Stonehenge (EP—GBVi, 2018) / 100 Dougs (EP—GBVi, 2018) / 1901 Acid Rock (EPRead More…
The GBV Project — Week 38: Zeppelin Over China
The Releases: Zeppelin Over China (LP—GBVi, 2019) / You Own the Night (Single—GBVi, 2018) This has been a weird and disturbingRead More…