Robert Pollard & The Boston Spaceships at The Parish

Indie rock godfather Robert Pollard can fit a lot of hats atop that unruly mop-top of his. Lately, he's gained much notoriety as an esteemed collage artist, but he will forever be remembered as the drunkenly brilliant (or brilliantly drunk) frontman and insanely prolific songwriter for Guided By Voices, Dayton OH's greatest musical export and ground zero for home-recorded lo-fi indie rock. GBV dissolved in 2004, but Pollard has continued releasing solo albums at the dizzying rate of three or four per year. 2008 has seen, in addition to two Pollard LPs and one EP, the emergence of yet another Pollard project, the Boston Spaceships. Although the songwriter stresses that the Spaceships are a true band (and indeed the rhythm section is made up of indie rock vets Chris Slusarenko and John Moen), they bear all the hallmarks of Pollard's British Invasion-obsessed sound: windmill-ready guitar riffs, indecipherable lyrics, and song lengths averaging about two and a half minutes. The Spaceships take over the Parish tonight and, assuming they live up to their mission statement, they will "rock hard, have fun, and drink Miller Lite." Detroit strummers The High Strung warm it up.

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