Built To Spill Bring "Oh Yeah" To Letterman

Last night Built To Spill capped a sold-out four-show run in NYC -- two at Webster, followed by a more intimate pair at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg. I ventured out in the Noreaster for it, and, surprise, a Built... CONTINUE READING BUILT TO SPILL BRING "OH YEAH" TO LETTERMAN»

Posted on October 16, 2009 in Video (20 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill | David Letterman

Stream The New Built To Spill

You've heard "Things Fall Apart" and "Hindsight" and stared deeply into There Is No Enemy's nighttime sky: Fill in the gaps of BTS's kinda blue seventh album (10/6, Warner Bros) at MySpace.... CONTINUE READING STREAM THE NEW BUILT TO SPILL»

Posted on October 2, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill

New Built To Spill - "Things Fall Apart" (Stereogum Premiere)

When Doug Martsch spoke with Jessica, he talked about aging gracefully: We have a bunch of records out. There's no hurry for us to sell music. We can put out a a record every five or six years, and that's... CONTINUE READING NEW BUILT TO SPILL - "THINGS FALL APART" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»

Posted on September 21, 2009 (15 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill | VUK

Outside Lands 2009 In Photos

Last year, San Fran's inaugural Outside Lands festival featured Radiohead, but also power outage issues. This year: No Radiohead, but abundant electricity. Trade-offs! While Thom was twisting words at the Reading and Leeds fests in the motherland, Golden Gate park... CONTINUE READING OUTSIDE LANDS 2009 IN PHOTOS»

Built To Spill's There Is No Enemy Album Info

Built To Spill's seventh full-length There Is No Enemy is out this October. When Doug Martsch spoke with Jessica in June for a detailed Progress Report he mentioned the collection was fairly collaborative: While he wrote all the songs on... CONTINUE READING BUILT TO SPILL'S THERE IS NO ENEMY ALBUM INFO»

Posted on August 18, 2009 in Album Art, Tour Dates (29 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill

Capitol Hill Block Party 2009 In Photos

This past weekend, Seattle roped off a couple of blocks on Pike Street to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, inviting everyone from Sonic Youth to Micachu to the Jesus Lizard to help fill out a strong roster of artists.... CONTINUE READING CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY 2009 IN PHOTOS»

Siren Festival 2009 In Photos

The Voice's annual indie rock fest gave audiophiles the second good reason to visit Coney Island last week, bringing out everyone from Spank Rock to Future Of The Left to Built To Spill on a sunny Saturday afternoon. We sent... CONTINUE READING SIREN FESTIVAL 2009 IN PHOTOS»

Progress Report: Built To Spill

NAME:Built To Spill PROGRESS REPORT: Doing final mixing for There Is No Enemy at Kingsize SoundLabs in Los Angeles with producer David Trumfio About five years went by between the release of Built To Spill's fifth album, Ancient Melodies Of... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: BUILT TO SPILL»

Posted on June 9, 2009 in Progress Report (17 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill | Q-Tip

Doug Martsch Talks Fantasy Hoops

Joining Stephen Malkmus in our series of Indie Rockers Talk Fantasy Hoops that I didn't realize was a series until today, the Built To shredder finally spills his deepest fantasy basketball secrets. The name of Doug's league with SM? Plastered... CONTINUE READING DOUG MARTSCH TALKS FANTASY HOOPS»

Posted on January 30, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Built To Spill | Doug Martsch | Robin Pecknold

Built To Spill Cover M.I.A. In Italy

It's fun to think that alongside resurrecting the careers of the Freaks And Geeks cast and becoming a Hollywood brand unto himself, Judd Apatow has indirectly inspired Doug Martsch to cover Ms. Arulpgrasam by making "Paper Planes" so pervasive that... CONTINUE READING BUILT TO SPILL COVER M.I.A. IN ITALY»

Posted on October 27, 2008 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Built To Spill | M.I.A. | The Shins

All Tomorrow's Parties NY: Kutsher's Scares, Doug Martsch Wails

By Scott Lapatine & Brandon Stosuy The hilarious setting for My Bloody Valentine's first US show in 16 years is a crusty Catskills resort that's already inspired more than enough The Shining jokes for one weekend. While the facility itself... CONTINUE READING ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES NY: KUTSHER'S SCARES, DOUG MARTSCH WAILS»

My Bloody Valentine Finally Coming Back To The States, Curating Quite A Party

16 years! It's been a long time to wait. For some of you it's probably been a lifetime. All that ends this fall, though, confirmed via tonight's news that's caused music bloggers countrywide to faint face first into their keyboards:... CONTINUE READING MY BLOODY VALENTINE FINALLY COMING BACK TO THE STATES, CURATING QUITE A PARTY»

Tomorrow Is Record Store Day

When's the last time you want to an actual record store? Like where you have to walk through a door and can't just click "download"? Yes, we live inside a blog, but record stores are pretty great. Brandon worked at... CONTINUE READING TOMORROW IS RECORD STORE DAY»

New Built To Spill Tracks

Thanks guys for being patient with us today, the server is getting hammered (wonder why?). So here's a quick and cool treat for ya: The Built To Spill fellas surprised us with a couple of singles they put together --... CONTINUE READING NEW BUILT TO SPILL TRACKS»

Posted on July 11, 2007 (15 comments)
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