For me, two of the most important bands of the 90s were Pavement and Guided By Voices.  Pavement has already started touring, and even played Fallon and Colbert, and now Guided By Voices have returned to the stage and are playing together.

Last night the band played at the Palladium Showroom in Dallas and played two hours worth of classic GBV songs.  As evidenced by the great performance of Game of Pricks, Guided by Voices still sound great even as they have aged.  Although they were notorious for having sloppy live performances these videos sound like GBV prime on their albums Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes.  Below is the much loved Bee Thousand track Tractor Rape Chain, which they included in their set.

Phenomenal.

-PK

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Fantastic video for a fantastic song.  The video follows a person trying to deal with an evil shark who follows him everywhere.  The band members also make appearances in the video so watch out for them.

-PK

This is a song off of Deerhunter’s recent album Halcyon Digest, which, for me, was one of the most refreshing releases of the year.  As the indie world is being engulfed by synthed out lo-fi bands, some good and some terrible, Deerhyunter chose not to jump onto this trend.  Halcyon Digest is accoustic (at least relatively), and not necessarily experimental at all, which leaves room for the band’s real strong point to shine, their song writing.  Every song on the album, whether 2 minutes long or 7, is entertaining throughout, without any gimmicks of originality that lose their novelty after two or three listens.  One of my favorite songs on Halcyon Digest was “He Would Have Laughed” which you can stream below.

-TC