If you’ve cracked open a single issue of Ghettoblaster, you are well aware of our continual fascination with all things Robert Pollard. So you can bet your face that we were excited when a Guided By Voices announced a reunion for a one-off show in Las Vegas for Matador’s 25th anniversary.

But now the news has reached us that our Ohio heroes will be touring as well. Hear that faint squealing noise? That’s the sound of our collective electric joy rising up over the heat of summer.

From ActiveDayton.com:

Although no dates are confirmed, GBV will follow that reunion show with some United States dates. This will be Pollard’s first tour since the Boston Spaceships outing in 2008 and the first GBV shows since disbanding in 2004.

“I’m not sure this will end after this particular tour,” [Pollard] said. “But after this has run its course, that’s the end for Guided by Voices. My justification for even doing it was, we’re old, but we’re not completely feeble yet. We can still do it a little bit, so we better do this before that happens.”

Robert Pollard‘s We All Got Out of The Army and Abita‘s Harvest Series: Pecan.

Sometimes a good album needs a good beer. Sometimes a good beer needs a good album. Sometimes you just need the closest beer at hand and whatever’s already in the stereo.

Richard Meltzer, Robert Pollard, Smegma Antler & Vom’s The Completed
Soundtrack for the Tropic of Nipples and Wooden Shoe’s New Bremen Giant
Pumpkin Ale

Sometimes a good album needs a good beer. Sometimes a good beer needs a good album. Sometimes you just need the closest beer at hand and whatever’s already in the stereo.

My goodness, he's blasted off!

If Robert Pollard can do it, so can you! Issue 23 features all the stuff you see on this image of the cover, along with stuff you can’t read ’cause the resolution’s too low!

Now reaching 20% more of y’all – additional magazines headed out to Borders, Barnes and Noble, a number of other chains, as well as both of America’s remaining independent record stores (go out and support them).

You can read more about it on the In Print page.