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Night Vision by Kiwi Jr., live at WFUV

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Guided By Voices & Kiwi jr Live Show Review: 6/1, Thalia Hall, Chicago

From left to right: Bobby Bare Jr., Mark Shue, Robert Pollard, Kevin March, & Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Robert Pollard sure has a way of making audiences feeling special. No, I'm not just talking about giving them their money's worth with regular forty-plus-song sets. As Guided By Voices walked out to chants of "G-B-V!" on Saturday night at Thalia Hall--a chant the band itself invented in studio on Propeller opening track "Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox"--Pollard let the crowd know that it was Chicago itself who were the very first to chant the band's initials back at them, on their tour for 1993's Vampire on Titus. Perhaps it was a plea to continue supporting the band as they continue to release records, often upwards of 3 per year. "We can't just rest on our laurels!" Pollard proclaimed upon introducing "Serene King", the first single from their upcoming album Strut of Kings, the band's 41st (!) record. And rest on their laurels they don't, as evidenced by the band's 40th anniversary celebration last fall, and, really, by every show they continue to play.

Gillard

The year's shows so far for Guided By Voices are opportunities for many fans, even diehards, to hear live for the first time the songs from the band's 40th album, last November's Nowhere to Go but Up, as well as those released so far from Strut of Kings. As has been the case with this current lineup since 2016, the new material is often the highlight of the set, the songs the band is most excited to play. On Saturday, swinging opener "The Race Is On, The King Is Dead" proved to be more raw than its sweeping string-laden studio version from Nowhere to Go. It stood out has having a more urgent live sound without flourishes and could become a setlist regular in that vein, like "The Rally Boys". Elsewhere, Pollard's vocals were more upfront in the mix on prog songs like "Jack of Legs" and "Song and Dance". And two of Nowhere to Go's highlights certainly showcased the band's dynamism: "How Did He Get Up There?", with its choppy riffs and syncopated verses, and "For the Home", Doug Gillard's introductory guitar prelude giving way into a mammoth rhythm riff from Bobby Bare Jr. and drums from Kevin March.

Pollard

Even at 66 years old and less than two years removed from a busted knee, Pollard's still on stage crushing Miller Lites, taking swigs from a bottle of Jose Cuervo (which he somehow passed to the crowd reaching over the Thalia Hall photo pit), and launching high-kicks. If the crowd shows enthusiasm on its own, pogoing during career hits like "Game of Pricks" and "I Am A Scientist", it seems like Pollard takes the effort to amp them up with his leg up in the air for newer songs like Welshpool Frillies cut "Romeo Surgeon". The rest of the band, too, finds ways to subtly shift tunes night by night. Gillard's riffs on Tremblers and Goggles by Rank song "Boomerang" were a bit more bluesy than I recall, while the end call and response between Pollard and Bare Jr. during Pollard solo cut "Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft" was straight up soulful, emulating the studio version's vocal layers. GBV are also careful not to oversaturate their material. Pollard joked that this would be the last time we'd hear Surrender Your Poppy Field's slow-burning "Volcano"--it won't going to make the cut on subsequent tours--but only after playing "Planet Score", a Motivational Jumpsuit cut that has found its way back into the rotation 10 years later. So, you never know.

From left to right: Mike Walker, Jeremy Gaudet, Brian Murphy, & Brohan Moore of Kiwi jr

Opening again for GBV, just like last September, was Toronto indie rock band Kiwi jr, culling from their three very good records. I thought of their opening set as a victory lap of sorts, the band now 3 years into their record deal with Sub Pop, having opened for 90s indie rock royalty like GBV and The Lemonheads. Live, they're becoming increasingly crispy, with wonderfully chintzy sounding synths introducing "Unspeakable Things", drummer Brohan Moore providing an appropriately wavy rhythm on "Salary Man", the band seamlessly diving into a galloping breakdown during the middle of "Waiting in Line". Vocalist Jeremy Gaudet's annunciation is increasingly Malkmus-esque, breathing out the final syllables of a melisma or laughing a tossed-off line like "nothing to worry about" on "Guilty Party". Yet, what separates him is his acerbic wit, clear as day even over the band's jangle. "It might take another year / It might take a shot-gunned beer / It might take a rifled deer / Head shot, night vision, sex tapе, head shot / Turn it out," from dark closer "Night Vision", sounds unexpectedly anthemic when coming from Gaudet's deadpanned delivery. Oh, and best of all, Kiwi jr played two new songs, the melancholy "I Want To Live in a World Like Polly" and the impressive "Blowin' Up". The latter started Cars-esque and punky before sporting a mid-song hip-hop drum beat with a synth freakout. If Kiwi jr continues to take the GBV route and morphs into something more kinetic, I don't think anybody will complain.

Murphy

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CHRISTMAS TREE BONNIE

FNAF belongs to Scott Cawthon

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RobMoro TV | Boeckner - 'Dead Tourists'

Boeckner are set to release their self-titled full-length debut this Friday. Coinciding with that release is the drop of a video for latest single ‘Dead Tourists’. If you are a fan of Dan Boeckner’s work with Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Operators, and Divine Fits, you won’t want to miss this solo outing. This track from the album was co-written by the talented Jeremy Gaudet of labelmates Kiwi…

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2023 Creative Work

It goes without question that the thing I worked on the most this year was DECK—the 52 song, 4 Album project coming in late 2024 from Hallelujah The Hills—but as I put this list together I was surprised how much else I managed to make this year. Some of it, like the Morphine liner notes, had been finished for over a year, but most of it was all produced and released in 2023. I am so truly grateful to be able to continue to follow my curiosity and imagination, create so many things both alone and with my friends, and have interested listeners and readers following it all. It's a dream. Thank you.

Writing

Morphine liner notes for Light in the Attic Records' reissues of Like Swimming and The Night

Convo with Jeremy Gaudet from Kiwi JR. — The Believer music issue

Bob Dylan: Boston 1963 — The Boston Globe

Teenage Jonathan Richman and Boston’s “Spiritual Sparkplug”

The Velvet Underground's 1st show in Boston

Pet Sounds heard as ad speak that breaks down

Music

Alone in Love — new Hills single from forthcoming DECK

DECK Patreon — 26 cover songs including three public songs: "Massachusetts" "What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding" and "Auld Lang Syne"

Audio Interviews

- Camper Can Calethoven podcast (20 episodes on the DECK Patreon with Leeore Schnairsohn and Evan Sicuranza)

- Light in the Attic podcast: Morphine episode

- The Believer Radio Hour - co-DJ with Kiwi JR’s Jeremy Gaudet

- Author/Musician rountable with Vashti Bunyan and Howard Fishman

- Revolutions Per Movie podcast - SEP 2023

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Photos

Meeting Robert Pollard, a hero of mine (photo by Rich Turiel)

(Top to Bottom, left to right: 1) Hills with Eyelids, New Haven, CT 2) Hills eat chicken wings after 1st DECK recording session, Portland, ME 3) me and Hills drummer Ryan Connelly with The Hold Steady after I interviewed them live on stage at the Newport Folk Festival 4) me and Tanya Donelly after she recorded her guest vocal for a DECK song 5) me and Ry-Con prepare to record a bar choir at the Brendan Behan Pub in Jamaica Plain, MA 6) Ezra Furman and I after recording her vocals for a DECK song at Puritan Garage 7) on the Sinclair marquee 8) The Morphine reissue dream team, names and thanks found here. 9) Hills live 12/15/23 at The Sinclair, photo by Ben Stas.

And lastly, because someone always asks, here's a link to this list for the previous year.

See you soon. XO

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Cooler Returns, by Kiwi Jr. - New Release #3.

Cooler Returns, by Kiwi Jr. – New Release #3.

Cooler Returns, by Kiwi Jr.2021, Sub Pop Records. Producer: Kiwi Jr. (2 minute read) The song “Undecided Voters,” from Kiwi Jr., popped up in my Spotify feed recently, and, sadly, I’m now familiar with the creepy feeling of having a computer understand my personality and tastes, so I didn’t even think twice. I just heard the song, loved it, and thought, “I gotta hear more of this!” Cooler…

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Director/Editor/DP/Producer: Ben Rayner

Kiwi Jr. - Salary Man

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Album Review: Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns

Album Review: Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns

Words: Andy Hughes It’s easy to get a touch jaded sometimes. One can find themselves getting tired of the current post-punk revival, sick of the same four blokes dressed in jackets previously owned by their Dad’s, gurning for the camera and doing impressions of other blokes dressed like their Dad’s. Whilst we’re genre-hoppers here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, it’s true that we’ve been swept up…

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Toronto Marlies vs Rochester Americans / January 4th, 2020

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Gimme More by Kiwi Jr. from the album Football Money - Director and Editor: Sean Egerton Foreman

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[ Carinthia Parks Opening Weekend 2017 ]

Weekend one is in the books for the 2017/18 season, and what a weekend it was. We started out in The Gulch with 14 features including two kickers, something we've never had before this early in the season.

While most folks take a lap or two to get their legs under them, the C-Team and friends went straight balls to the wall right out the gate, like they hadn't skipped beat from last season. If it continues like this we're going to see some serious S&*T go down this season.

Stay tuned...

Riders in order: Shaun Murphy, Levi Gunzburg, Jeremy Ellenberg, Jake Gaudet, Rory Bruder, Jack "J-Scoot" Szkutak and Max Lyons.

Filmed/Cut Devin Bernard

Music: Jaguar Scarification Ritual - Barishi

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FESTIVE BONNIE

FNAF belongs to Scott Cawthon

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Kiwi Jr. - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)

Nice five song live recoreded for Live on KEXP at Home by Kiwi Jr. a four piece Canadian indie rock band based in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists  of Jeremy Gaudet on vocals, Mike Walker on the bass, Brohan Moore on the drums, and Brian Murphy on the guitar. The live set was filmed on location at Heat (1995) Crime/Drama and edited by Danny Alexander.

Setlist

Cooler Returns

Salary Man

Domino

Highlights Of 100

Undecided Voters

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Available both online and in print today: talking to Jeremy from Kiwi Jr. for The Believer Magazine, can you believe it? Hills are live tomorrow, Friday, at The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA.

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2019-20 Toronto Marlies Final Team Stat Leaders

Games Played: Tyler Gaudet (58)

Goals: Kenny Agostino (27)

Assists: Jeremy Bracco (30)

Points: Kenny Agostino (49)

PIM: Garrett Wilson (81)

Plus/Minus: Pierre Engvall & Egor Korshkov (+11)

Games Played By Goalie: Joe Woll (32)

Wins By Goalie: Kasimir Kaskisuo (14)

Fewest Losses By Goalie: Kasimir Kaskisuo (11)

Fewest Goals Allowed By Goalie: Kasimir Kaskisuo (71)

Saves By Goalie: Joe Woll (803)

Shutouts By Goalie: Joe Woll (2)