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September 24, 2011
French Quarter Tour Diary - Week 1
I won't attempt to explain the amalgam of esoteric in-jokes that manifested into the tour poster seen above. There's a perfectly good but lengthy explanation for why the four of us chose to put John Fogerty's head on a French Quarter t-shirt, gave him dice for eyes and exhorted the viewer to ... More >>
Music
March 10, 2011
The Dodos @ The Duce
I won't attempt to explain the amalgam of esoteric in-jokes that manifested into the tour poster seen above. There's a perfectly good but lengthy explanation for why the four of us chose to put John Fogerty's head on a French Quarter t-shirt, gave him dice for eyes and exhorted the viewer to ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2010
Built To Spill - Ripple (Grateful Dead Cover) Live at Marquee Theatre 10/26/10
Song: Built To Spill, "Ripple" (Grateful Dead Cover) a bootleg from Tuesday's show at Marquee Theatre. Context: The bootleg of BTS's Tuesday show in Tempe (shared in the comments section of my review) on Tuesday is awesome. This was my favorite moment of the show, just because it was such an unex ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2010
Built To Spill at Marquee Theatre Last Night
Built To Spill Marquee Theatre, Tempe Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Built To Spill's Tuesday show at Marquee Theatre was one for the die-hards. While the hips kids paid upwards of $100 to watch Damon Albarn's Gorillaz cartoon/art-rap spectacular down the theater formerly known as Dodge, a crustier s ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Built To Spill - Pat
Song: Built To Spill, "Pat"Context: BTS is scheduled to perform at Marquee Theatre tonight. Built to Spill - Pat
Music
October 21, 2010
Built to Spill Returns to Headliner Status After Opening For Kings Of Leon All Summer
Song: Built To Spill, "Pat"Context: BTS is scheduled to perform at Marquee Theatre tonight. Built to Spill - Pat
Blogs
October 21, 2010
Sufjan Stevens, Gorillaz, Built To Spill, and More in This Week's Issue
Marzuki StevensSufjan's building what could become an experimental indie pop empire with his new album.Now Sufjan Stevens has gone in another direction with his new album The Age of Adz, Christian rock fans are realizing they set bar a little too high for Sufjan Stevens. He's done with the concep ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2010
Built to Spill (Oh, Yeah, and Kings of Leon) at Cricket Pavilion on 7/10/10
Kings of LeonFinally playing on a stage befitting their status as one of the best rock bands of the past 15-20 years, Built to Spill put on an excellent show at Cricket Pavilion Saturday night, and, as a bonus, they even brought along some plucky, young, Southern rock upstarts from Nashville to c ... More >>
Music
July 8, 2010
Built To Spill
Kings of LeonFinally playing on a stage befitting their status as one of the best rock bands of the past 15-20 years, Built to Spill put on an excellent show at Cricket Pavilion Saturday night, and, as a bonus, they even brought along some plucky, young, Southern rock upstarts from Nashville to c ... More >>
Calendar
July 8, 2010
Built to Spill
Kings of LeonFinally playing on a stage befitting their status as one of the best rock bands of the past 15-20 years, Built to Spill put on an excellent show at Cricket Pavilion Saturday night, and, as a bonus, they even brought along some plucky, young, Southern rock upstarts from Nashville to c ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
The Prids Bring Sexy Rock Music and Silly Haircuts to The Rogue Bar Thursday
I'm not generally a fan of angular haircuts or leering, dramatic promo photos, but in the case of a band like Portland-via-Omaha-via-Saint Joseph band The Prids, it's easy to push at that superficial stuff to the side and just focus on the goods: smart, guitar-driven pop music, with sexy boy-gir ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2010
Hate Kings Of Leon? You're Going To End Up Wanting To Go To Their Show Anyway. Peep These Openers.
Luke Holwerda"Your favorite band wants to open for us and your girlfriend would probably love to hook up with us. Our Sex is on Fire, bitches."Sure, Kings of Leon suck. Hard. Soooooo hard. But damn it if the only legitimate arena-ready act born of the early naughties garage rock revival doesn't k ... More >>
Music
January 7, 2010
Year in Music: Our List of the 10 Best Albums of 2009 Sadly Features No Local Music
Luke Holwerda"Your favorite band wants to open for us and your girlfriend would probably love to hook up with us. Our Sex is on Fire, bitches."Sure, Kings of Leon suck. Hard. Soooooo hard. But damn it if the only legitimate arena-ready act born of the early naughties garage rock revival doesn't k ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2009
Top 10 Albums of 2009: Mike R. Meyer
Up on the Sun is counting down the days until the unveiling of music editor Martin Cizmar's personal Best of 2009 list with some other lists from Phoenix New Times' stable of excellent freelancers. Today we bring you a list from Mike R. Meyer, a New Times contributor, wannabe musician, video game en ... More >>
Music
October 8, 2009
Built To Spill
There Is No Enemy
(Warner Bros.)
Blogs
August 10, 2009
Built To Spill Fall Tour Has Tucson Date, Three Open Nights After Tucson Date
We can't tell you Built to Spill is coming to Phoenix yet -- but we're very hopeful we will be soon. Doug Martsch's gloriously jammy indie rock outfit has announced their fall dates and is scheduled to play Tucson on October 28. The critically-lauded group has three open dates (October 29 an ... More >>
Music
July 2, 2009
Deer Tick
We can't tell you Built to Spill is coming to Phoenix yet -- but we're very hopeful we will be soon. Doug Martsch's gloriously jammy indie rock outfit has announced their fall dates and is scheduled to play Tucson on October 28. The critically-lauded group has three open dates (October 29 an ... More >>
Calendar
July 2, 2009
Deer Tick
We can't tell you Built to Spill is coming to Phoenix yet -- but we're very hopeful we will be soon. Doug Martsch's gloriously jammy indie rock outfit has announced their fall dates and is scheduled to play Tucson on October 28. The critically-lauded group has three open dates (October 29 an ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2009
Paul McCartney MGMT, Le Tigre Christina Aguilera, Kurt Cobain's Ghost on Stage
NME: Paul McCartney: 'I want to work with MGMT' - video Pitchfork: Radiohead Open Digital Store, Sell In Rainbows CD 2 Electric Mustache: Mp3: Rock Plaza Central "(Dont You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men" Rolling Stone: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Nixes Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar Spin: Jack White ... More >>
Calendar
May 14, 2009
Tremulants
NME: Paul McCartney: 'I want to work with MGMT' - video Pitchfork: Radiohead Open Digital Store, Sell In Rainbows CD 2 Electric Mustache: Mp3: Rock Plaza Central "(Dont You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men" Rolling Stone: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Nixes Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar Spin: Jack White ... More >>
Music
April 2, 2009
Mondegreen
NME: Paul McCartney: 'I want to work with MGMT' - video Pitchfork: Radiohead Open Digital Store, Sell In Rainbows CD 2 Electric Mustache: Mp3: Rock Plaza Central "(Dont You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men" Rolling Stone: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Nixes Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar Spin: Jack White ... More >>
Music
October 16, 2008
Born Ruffians
NME: Paul McCartney: 'I want to work with MGMT' - video Pitchfork: Radiohead Open Digital Store, Sell In Rainbows CD 2 Electric Mustache: Mp3: Rock Plaza Central "(Dont You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men" Rolling Stone: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Nixes Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar Spin: Jack White ... More >>
Calendar
October 16, 2008
Born to Rock
NME: Paul McCartney: 'I want to work with MGMT' - video Pitchfork: Radiohead Open Digital Store, Sell In Rainbows CD 2 Electric Mustache: Mp3: Rock Plaza Central "(Dont You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men" Rolling Stone: Guitar Hero: Van Halen Nixes Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar Spin: Jack White ... More >>
Music
June 26, 2008
No Age
Nouns
(Sub Pop)
Blogs
June 11, 2008
Amplified Amore at RockNRollDating.com
Nouns
(Sub Pop)
Music
August 23, 2007
TrEmUlaNtS
Helicopter Moon
(self-released)
Music
March 22, 2007
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
(Sony)
Music
July 6, 2006
Free Throw
Built to Spill front man Doug Martsch on playing basketball, watching television, and getting poked in the eyeball
Music
June 29, 2006
Band of Horses
It really is everything all the time
Music
May 25, 2006
Tapes 'n Tapes
The Loon
(Ibid Records)
Music
April 27, 2006
Top 10 best sellers at Stinkweeds, 12 West Camelback Road
Chart-busters for the week
Music
March 16, 2006
Band of Horses
Three-trick ponies
Music
March 9, 2006
Minus the Bear, Rocky Votolato
Northwest passages
Music
January 5, 2006
Freestyle Fellowship
Sometimes awesome live bands also make magic in the studio
Music
November 17, 2005
dios (malos)
R.J. should worry
Music
January 13, 2005
The Thermals
Throwing genre labels out the window
Music
April 8, 2004
Definitive Jux Tour
New York hip-hop spins in Tempe
Music
October 23, 2003
The Heavenly States
Not your average pop-rock band
Calendar
May 15, 2003
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Not your average pop-rock band
Music
May 15, 2003
Basement Ax
Built to Spill's Doug Martsch is a guitar hero for a generation not interested in 'em
Music
September 26, 2002
Doug Martsch
Now You Know (Warner Bros.)
Music
June 7, 2001
Guitar Man
Built to Spill's Doug Martsch might claim to be an amateur on the six-string, but don't let him fool you
Music
December 30, 1999
Critical Mass
Even with impending Willennium looming, 1999 proved to be a banner year for music
Music
December 23, 1999
Annual Retentive
The 10 best rock 'n' roll records of '99
Music
April 8, 1999
Secret Society
Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch may be a modest family man, but his fans can't resist putting him on a pedestal
Music
March 25, 1999
Growing Pains
After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love
Music
February 11, 1999
Recordings
After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love
Music
January 1, 1998
Critics' Choice
A year-end recap of the albums that made it worthwhile to own a stereo in 1997
Music
October 2, 1997
Merge Slowly
Superchunk matures without junking its indie ideals
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