Guided by Voices

Wanna indie-rock your way into next year? Bob Pollard’s beery veterans are the men for the job, inspiring a particular kind of brow-furrowing, chest-pummeling devotion in the indie-rock kingdom—thanks in equal measure to Pollard’s shambling (read: inebriated) charisma and astonishing knack for drumming up pop hooks of crisp, clear beauty. Tonight's intimate Hoboken show, getting the jump on tomorrow's Irving Plaza blowout, features the band’s “classic” 1993–96 lineup.