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No, Guided By Voices Aren’t Breaking Up — They Actually Have New Music

Guided by Voices have not broken up, despite Bobby Bare Jr. saying "we're never playing again" during a podcast appearance.

And yea, I had a lot of technical difficulties during the podcast episode.” Lou added, “they are working on a new LP but, yeah, no more live shows from what I understand.” But there’s a reason the rumors gained some traction: Guided by Voices are no stranger to breakups — they’ve called it quits more than once (they broke up in 2004 and reformed in 2010 just to stop four years later and reunite in 2016), and the lineup has shifted several times since their inception. The current lineup — Robert Pollard, Bare, Kevin March, Doug Gillard, and Mark Shue — has been in effect since 2016, and they have dropped nearly 20 albums together.

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