Pitchfork: Guided By Voices Reschedule Gigs, Record New Album; Pollard Reteams With Todd Tobias For Solo Album

Guided By Voices Reschedule Gigs, Record New Album; Pollard Reteams With Todd Tobias For Solo Album
Pollard's vertebrae refixed with permanent-bond earthquake glue

Our favorite "I write songs faster than Dean loses percentage points" musician is back--ahem-- in the fray. Guided By Voices' captain of fade, Robert Pollard, recently sustained another injury to his back, causing him to cancel a number of January tour dates. Fortunately, Pollard has been recovering, and is expected to continue rocking out crowds come March. Rescheduled dates:

03-05 Dallas, TX - Trees
03-06 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
03-08 Columbia, MO - Blue Note
03-09 St. Louis, MO - Mississippi Nights
03-11 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's
03-12 Louisville, KY - Headliners
03-13 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird

In the meantime, GbV has been at Waterloo Studios in Kent, OH (birthplace of Universal Cycles and Truths) recording their next album, according to Matador and the band's official website. Fifteen songs have been recorded with Todd Tobias producing, and the album is expected for release sometime around the summer of this year.

Furthermore, Pollard has set a March date for his next solo release, Fiction Man. Pollard penned the tunes, while Tobias provides instrumentation (much in the same vein as Pollard's collaboration with Doug Gillard, Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department). Neither source reported whether the release will be on Fading Captain, Matador, or another label. The next Fading Captain release will be a CD edition of Circus Devils' third album, Pinball Mars, which was first released on vinyl last Halloween.

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