Subject: Bob Pollard

• Guided By Voices

  August 26, 2004

• Bright Eyes

  I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)

  January 20, 2005

• The New Pornographers

  September 29, 2005

• Smells Like Indie Spirit

  Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

  December 30, 2004

• Wing Command

  Once content to write alone, Dean Fertita now soars with his band on the run.

  July 19, 2001

• Turning away brohams, a Rooftop Vigilante gears up for tonight's Guided By Voices tribute.

  I always have the best interviews with Zach Campbell. The guitarist and singer of Lawrence's Rooftop Vigilantes was working the door at the Jackpot on a slow Monday night when I popped into to discuss his side gig in a Guided By Voices tribute band. The group - unnamed as of the interview - will play this Friday at the Jackpot as part of a diverse bill that also includes rappers Approach, Info Gates, and Negro Scoe. Zach Campbell is our kind of soldier.We'll get to the GBV stuff in a minute, b

  May 22, 2009

• Incoming: Iain Ellis & Daniel A. Hoyt reading at the Raven, August 15

  Iain Ellis, of whom the Wayward Blog has spoken before, is doing a reading with Daniel A. Hoyt at The Raven Bookstore in Lawrence on August 15 at 7pm, as part of what they are calling "The 2009 Ad Libri Per Aspera Tour." Sarah McGreer HoytDaniel A. Hoyt​A short biography of both, courtesy of Mr. Hoyt: Iain Ellis and Daniel A. Hoyt met at The Replay Lounge in Lawrence, Kansas, in August of 2000. During the next four years, they shared many rounds at the Replay, hours and hours on the baske

  August 6, 2009

• 2009 Ad Libri Per Aspera Tour

  August 13, 2009