The Fire Note Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2025
2025 proved to be another challenging year for music lovers, with so many standout releases that shaping this list pushed us in all the right … Read more
Guided By Voices: Thick Rich And Delicious [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesThick Rich And DeliciousGBV Inc. [2025] “A loud, lean, and irresistibly catchy reminder that Guided By Voices still own the art of the … Read more
Fire Track: Guided By Voices – “Phantasmagoric Upstarts”
Guided By Voices Turn Up the Volume with “Phantasmagoric Upstarts” — A Fuzzy Fever Dream from Their Upcoming Album Guided By Voices are back with … Read more
Rip Van Winkle: Blasphemy [Album Review]
Rip Van WinkleBlasphemySplendid Research Records [2025] “Rip Van Winkle delivers a surreal stage play in album form—and it sticks the landing.” Album Overview: Blasphemy is the … Read more
Guided By Voices: Universe Room [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesUniverse RoomGBV Inc. [2025] “A labyrinthine album from the Dayton, Ohio institution that reveals new melodic charms with each additional listen” Album Overview: … Read more
The Fire Note Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2024
2024 has been an outstanding year for music, with a steady stream of exceptional releases making this year’s list one of the most challenging to … Read more
Doug Gillard Reflects on the Return of Children’s Crusade
In a nostalgic nod to Cleveland’s gritty post-punk scene, Doug Gillard, best known as the guitarist for Guided By Voices, has just reissued A Duty-Dance … Read more
Fire Track: Guided By Voices – “I Am A Scientist (30th Anniversary Version)”
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Guided By Voices’ 1994 lo-fi classic, Bee Thousand, the band is sharing the newly recorded version of “I Am A Scientist” in high … Read more
Various Artists: Collapse The Collectors [Album Review]
Various ArtistsCollapse The CollectorsSilly Moo Records [2024] Album Overview: I will be the first to admit that I have traditionally been a tough critic of … Read more
Guided By Voices: Strut Of Kings [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesStrut Of KingsGBV Inc. [2024] Album Overview: Guided By Voices, spearheaded by longtime leader Robert Pollard, has been a prominent figure in the … Read more
Fire Track: Guided By Voices – “Cavemen Running Naked”
Last month, Guided By Voices (the ever-evolving act led by Robert Pollard) announced their next LP, Strut of Kings (due June 28 via GBV Inc).Building on 40 years of GBV history, the … Read more
Fire Track: Guided By Voices – “Serene King”
Guided By Voices (the ever-evolving act led by Robert Pollard) have announced their next LP, Strut of Kings (due June 28 via GBV Inc). Building on 40 years of GBV history, … Read more
Rip Van Winkle: The Grand Rapids EP [Album Review]
Rip Van WinkleThe Grand Rapids EPSplendid Research Records [2024] Album Overview: Rip Van Winkle was originally announced as a mysterious Robert Pollard project. Now, with … Read more
Fire Track: Rip Van Winkle – “Prose Kaiser”
Mysterious Robert Pollard project in limited edition (1000 LPs, 1000 CDs) IYKYK. In stores Friday February 23rd (Splendid Research Records SR-1) Pre-order at Rockathon
The Fire Note Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2023
2023 was a great year in music! Solid release after solid release made this year’s list one of the hardest to put together in TFN’s … Read more
Guided By Voices: Nowhere To Go But Up [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesNowhere To Go But UpGBV Inc. [2023] Sixteen. That’s how many albums the current lineup of Guided By Voices has managed to release … Read more
Fire Track: Guided By Voices – “For The Home”
Guided By Voices (the ever-evolving act led by Robert Pollard) has announced details on their third album of 2023 (and 39th overall), Nowhere To Go … Read more
Circus Devils – “Here We Are” [Video]
Formed in 2001, the psychedelic rock trio Circus Devils features vocalist Robert Pollard, backed by brothers Todd Tobias and Tim Tobias. In their first album … Read more
Fire Track: Tobin Sprout – “Bad Scenes”
On September 15th, former Guided By Voices guitarist and co-songwriter Tobin Sprout will release a two-LP set of 28 unreleased demos, live recordings, and alternate … Read more
Guided By Voices: Welshpool Frillies [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesWelshpool FrilliesGBV Inc. [2023] Figuring out how to rate a new Guided By Voices album is hard. Do I compare it against the … Read more
Guided By Voices – “Meet The Star” [Video]
The ever-prolific and always active Guided By Voices is back at it again with their second release of 2023, a brand new full-length record entitled … Read more
Gramercy Arms: Deleted Scenes [Album Review]
Gramercy ArmsDeleted ScenesMagic Door Record Label [2023] Gramercy Arms is a NYC musical collective brought together around the songwriting of Dave Derby, who keeps the … Read more
Guided By Voices: La La Land [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesLa La LandGBV Inc. [2023] After releasing two excellent albums last year (Crystal Nuns Cathedral and Tremblers and Goggles By Rank), Guided By … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2022
The music world has been slowly uncoiling from the pandemic which gave us another onslaught of great 2022 releases this year. This created another tough … Read more
Guided By Voices: Scalping The Guru [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesScalping The GuruGBV Inc. [2022] If you were to poll fans of Guided By Voices what they thought were three consecutive years that … Read more