Information Leafblower (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Sunday: The Mars Volta @ Ram's Head Live: Imagine a combination of Prince, James Brown and the worst prog rock you have ever heard. That's The Mars Volta. One guy was playing the flute! Visually compelling, but basically unlistenable. Not...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
One of the centerpieces of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival was the “Don’t Look Back” series, which featured several bands playing one of their classic albums in its entirety. The guests included Thurston Moore (playing his solo album Psychic Hearts), Meat Puppets (who took on Meat Puppets II) and Built to Spill, who ran through [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Photo: Jason Bergman for RollingStone.com At 12:38 a.m. this morning, My Bloody Valentine walked onstage at Kutsher’s Country Club to play their first American concert in 16 years. In brief: It was seriously, incredibly, mind-numbingly loud. Perched in front of several Marshall stacks and a screen flashing psychedelic images, the band turned out 90 minutes of [...]
Aural States (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Wednesday, September 24, Ram’s Head Live is proud to welcome Built to Spill and Meat Puppets, two offshoots of the 2008 All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, which has probably gone down as having the most stacked lineup of a festival in recent rock music history. Built to Spill will perform their 1997 Warner Brothers debut, Perfect [...]
IndieMuse.com (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Last night I saw Built to Spill for the third time in the past 3 years. The first time I saw them at Lollapalooza and they were supporting You In Reverse, the second was in Boston when they were just touring for the sake of touring, and this third time they played Perfect From Now [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
If music fans have any single person to thank for the recent trend of live performances of entire albums, it’s UK concert promoter Barry Hogan. Since 2005, Hogan’s All Tomorrow’s Parties series has seen the Stooges play Funhouse, the Lemonheads run through It’s a Shame About Ray and Sonic Youth tackle all of Daydream Nation. [...]
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
In what started out as a live-in Old West motion picture set built in the 1940s, where a number of Westerns and early television shows were filmed including The Cisco Kid, Pioneertown, CA will be hosting a different breed of entertainer ...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
It's easy to lump this Portland-based band into the mix with Shiner, Built to Spill and Sunny Day Real Estate, because it has played with all of them. But it's still alive, unlike two of those bands, and its latest...
Billboard (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
What began as an idea for Built To Spill, Modest Mouse and Love As Laughter to record a collaborative album covering each other's songs has now morphed into something else entirely.
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Former Treepeople member, Doug Martsch and fellow Built to Spill band mates head to the Academy on November 10. The indie rock band will treat fans to songs their most recent album, Perfect from Now On, on sale now. Also, check out special guests on the night Disco Doom. The Academy, November 10. Tickets €20 including booking fee. Built To Spill: Stop the Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw06bRjHks4...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
photos by Chris Graham Michael Showalter & the gorge, Sasquatch 2008 Michael Showalter was at Sasquatch last year too. More pictures from Monday (day three of Sasquatch) below.......
Paper Thin Walls Bullhorn (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Built To Spill spill new album details and fall tour info. Turns out it was hidden in Doug Martsch's beard the whole time!
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
" /> A man needs lovin'. A woman needs a man to love. I sense that Built to Spill has not aged well. Frontman Doug Martsch's beard and general "aloof lumberjack" vibe were visionary, of course, but there isn't a straighter guitar-humping Freedom Rock arrow in the whole '90s Magnet -reading quiver. Not enough of an Afropop influence for these polyglot times, alas. And yet, amid the nostalgia-trip orgy...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Reading some quotes from Doug Martsch, frontman of Built to Spill, I can't help but think that his speeches and promises are no different than other leading musicians — empty promises. “I was convinced the American people wanted something new and different,” said Martsch in Beloit, WI, while explaining the announcement of his upcoming tour. “They didn't want an announcement that was about tearing each...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Though they're currently in L.A. jamming out their follow-up to 2006's You in Reverse , Built to Spill have another album on their minds lately: 1997's Perfect From Now On , Pitchfork's 22nd favorite album of the 1990s . As your next credit card statement will likely remind you, Doug Martsch and company will head to upstate New York way off in September to perform the noodly neo-classic at the inaugural...
