Polvo is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band formed in 1990 and is fronted by guitarists/vocalists Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski, with Steve Popson playing bass guitar and Brian Quast playing drums. Eddie Watkins was the band's original drummer, but did not rejoin the band upon its reunion in 2008, after breaking up in 1998.
The band was critically acclaimed from the outset, at least among those critics who were into non-traditional/underground rock. The band's name means "octopus" in Portuguese and "powder" or "dust" in Spanish.