As a member of Polvo and Helium, singer & guitarist Ash Bowie helped paint the indie rock landscape of the 1990s. Following over ten years of silence, Polvo return to the stage in May, but don't call ...

What prompted you to re-form Polvo, besides Explosions in the Sky asking you to play All Tomorrow's Parties? It was really the ATP invitation that got us to re-form. We never ruled out playing ...

Guitarist Ash Bowie kneels to check his tuning once more, then stows the guitar on a nearby rack. The clouds break briefly, and Brylawski hops down the stage’s stairs, headed for a nearby tent.

As Polvo’s anticipated Cat’s Cradle show approached on Saturday, the sun hanging heavily over the late afternoon horizon, guitarist Dave Brylawski and bassist Steve Popson took a break after ...

Speed Stick is a new supergroup made up of veterans from the Carrboro, NC indie rock scene. The core lineup is Ash Bowie (Polvo), Charles Chace (The Paul Swest), Laura King (Bat Fangs, Flesh Wounds), ...

North Carolina’s Polvo get their reformation on “I’d like to think I play more tastefully,” Polvo’s Ash Bowie told Pitchfork earlier this year, “but of course that’s a euphemism for becoming older and ...

Math rock has always been a hard genre to pin down. Its bounds flirt with prog-rock, noise and post-rock, the genre’s roots extending all the way from ’70s progressives like Yes and Genesis to ...

As previously announced, Polvo are reuniting to play some shows, but now that includes some U.S. tour dates to0…. In May, original members Ash Bowie, Dave Brylawski and Steve Popson will be joined by ...

About halfway through Polvo’s triumphant appearance at the Bell House last night, someone in the crowd yelled out, “It feels so good to be 20!” Yup–the nostalgia was thick and palpable as the band ...

The two guitars that front the indie rock band Polvo often sound downright alien, what with the weird tunings, serpentine riffing and stop-start unpredictability. The North Carolina quartet, which ...

Polvo's algorhythmic time signatures, angular riffage and Eastern influences painted the dissonant North Carolina band into a corner called "math rock" throughout the '90s. But after repeatedly ...