The quintet from Dayton, Ohio, are crossing North America in support of their upcoming release, Isolation Drills, due in stores April 3.

So far, they have more than 30 dates lined up and more stops are likely to come.

The band will celebrate the record’s release with an in-store appearance at vaunted indie shop Amoeba in San Francisco on April 3, the day after their concert at the Fillmore.

GbV has been around in one form or another since the early 1980s, and some reports claim the band has seen close to 40 musicians pass through its ranks.

Still, the brainchild of ex-schoolteacher Robert Pollard has maintained a hard core following all these years – evidenced by a nearly sold-out string of club dates last year. They also opened a series of shows for Cheap Trick in 1999.

And despite all the personnel changes, Guided by Voices has also built up a prodigious discography – averaging close to two albums a year since 1997.

A box set released last year, Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft, is a collection of more than 100 unreleased recordings that reportedly span 25 years.