GBV Guitarist Doug Gillard at DeVille Tonight

To the list of wonderful things we can thank the late, great indie band Guided By Voices, add guitarist/songwriting Doug Gillard. Musically, Gillard's style hews closely to the skewed, British Invasion-obsessed guitar pop of his old band. But, minus the towering weirdness of GBV frontman Robert Pollard, the tunes are more straightforward (and, dare we say, intelligible) without being any less catchy. In fact, the hard-charging "For What I've Done" and coldly elegant "Time Is Nigh" (both currently unreleased but available to listen on MySpace) stand toe-to-toe with anything GBV, or, for that matter, Big Star or The Kinks, ever recorded. He's a ripping guitar player, too, so head out to DeVille tonight for what promises to be a hot set we barely even saw coming. And on hump day, no less!

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