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Built to Spill and Modest Mouse might have a jam session
So you say you like Built to Spill? How about Modest Mouse? Enjoy them too? Well, boy do we have we got something for you: a Built to Spill/Modest Mouse jam session!... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCatching Up With... Built to Spill
Although Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch has been called the elder statesman of alternative rock, it’s a mantle he shoulders with a hint of chagrin. Paste recently caught up with Martsch via telephone, and the enigmatic balladeer waxed philosophic about the upcoming... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBuilt to Spill can't stop, won't stop touring
You've got to admire Built to Spill's work ethic. Fresh off of a tour last winter and spring, the Boise-based alt-rock legends recently announced their forthcoming LP and the Perfect From Now On tour, a sprawling jaunt across America and Europe that starts in September. Doug Martsch and his scrappy troop of power-pop impresarios just unveiled more shows on the European leg of this already-titanic excursion, which now stretches well into November.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSasquatch 2008: Day 3
It was the last day of Sasquatch and you bet we made it count. From shout-along choruses to Swedish showmen to bearded guitarvaganzas to British soul men to naked people to much, much more, it was all there. Read on...... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusBuilt to Spill built to tour, finish new record
When he's not busy perfecting his jump shot, Doug Martsch is oftentimes busy putting pen to paper. And apparently those latter times have been recent. His band Built to Spill, everyone's favorite gang of Boise indie-gone-major rockers, has finished laying down basic tracks for its next studio album. Made up partly of... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBuilt To Spill fuels up the tour bus for another epic trek
Back when Doug Martsch first started slinging his guitar with Built To Spill, musicians had to work to spread the gospel. None of this MySpace crap: you had to pile in the van with your smelly rhythm section and drive all over the country, hitting as many backwater outposts as you could to play dive bars and shop your album. Thank goodness for us that Martsch and his Built To Spill bandmates never grew out of that mindset. The band's touring schedule in support of 2006's You In Reverse was nothing short of Herculean, and now the group is hitting... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBuilt to Spill begins June-October tour
One of the most influential beards of our time will soon make its way across North America attached to Doug Martsch’s face. Whether or not you find Built to Spill’s hooks particularly hooking, it’s worth attending one of the band’s shows only to admire its lead singer’s expansive, yet orderly chin hair - graying near the ears, and full in the way his scalp isn’t, like a bottom-heavy Wooly Willy. The tour kicks off tomorrow in Alberta, where the official bird is the Great Horned Owl, and ends with three dates in Seattle, where the beard reigns above all flora... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBuilt To Spill
Consarnit and tarnation! What is it with that Built To Spill as a live act? read more
Found in: Concerts, ReviewsBuilt To Spill
As his band’s first album in five years looms large on the indie-gone-major horizon, Doug Martsch... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBuilt To Spill Tour Postponed
Built To Spill’s upcoming tour has been postponed, as Doug Martsch had to have emergency surgery to repair a detached retina. All tickets will be honored or refundable. Check your local outlet for details. And, while you're at it, take out your frustration in a basketball game against Doug Martsch at builttospill.com/jams. But make sure you bring your A-game—the band promises, "your a** will be sufficiently kicked."... read more
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