Guided by Voices - Live from Austin, TX

Given Robert Pollard's skewed but enthusiastic embrace of rock classicism (evidenced by his shared obsession with The Beatles and The Who), it's surprising that Guided By Voices never got around to releasing that staple of rock & roll traditionalists, the double live album (beyond giving their blessings to a couple of authorized semi-bootlegs, Jellyfish Reflector and Crying Your Knife Away). But two years after Pollard retired Guided By Voices, the band finally gets the twin-disc concert document treatment with Live From Austin, Tx, which preserves the 30-song set Gbv played during a November 2004 taping of the PBS series Austin City Limits on their farewell tour. Read More