Built To Spill

Built to Spill - Crescent Ballroom - 5/7/13

Built to SpillCrescent BallroomMay 7, 2013 Built to Spill is something of an anomaly. Part grunge, part punk, part indie-rock quirkiness, the band encompasses all these elements without completely embracing any one for too long. That's what made Built to Spill's Crescent Ballroom show so appealing ... More >>

Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

One of the bands you can see this week around Phoenix has a famous song called "A Praise Chorus." Another of the bands you can see this week titled the first song of their first album "Penis." See which one of those bands is Jimmy Eat World after the jump!

Built to Spill's Future Is Getting Hard to Predict

Grouplove @ Crescent Ballroom

My Stolen MP3 Collection Got Stolen

My house got robbed over the summer and among the items taken were my laptop and iPod. I had backed up none of my data. I would estimate I lost somewhere around 12,000 songs. It also feels safe to estimate that 95 percent of my MP3 collection was not purchased. It obviously sucked at first, losing ... More >>

Source Victoria Covers Built to Spill

See also: Download: The World Record's Sublime Guitar Rock Hit "She's Not a Liar" See also: Take Cover: Bogan Via Covers Department of EaglesWishful thinking often leads to wishful drinking. The results are usually disastrous, but in Source Victoria's case, it resulted in a great Built to Spill cov ... More >>

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 >>

The Dodos @ The Duce

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 >>

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 >>

Built To Spill - Pat

​ Song: Built To Spill, "Pat"Context: BTS is scheduled to perform at Marquee Theatre tonight. Built to Spill - Pat

Built to Spill Returns to Headliner Status After Opening For Kings Of Leon All Summer

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 >>

Built to Spill (Oh, Yeah, and Kings of Leon) at Cricket Pavilion on 7/10/10

Kings of Leon​Finally 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 >>

Built To Spill

Built to Spill

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 >>

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 >>

Year in Music: Our List of the 10 Best Albums of 2009 Sadly Features No Local Music

Built To Spill

There Is No Enemy
(Warner Bros.)

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 >>

Deer Tick

Deer Tick

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 >>

Tremulants

Born Ruffians

Born to Rock

No Age

Nouns
(Sub Pop)

Amplified Amore at RockNRollDating.com

TrEmUlaNtS

Helicopter Moon
(self-released)

Free Throw

Built to Spill front man Doug Martsch on playing basketball, watching television, and getting poked in the eyeball

Band of Horses

It really is everything all the time

Tapes 'n Tapes

The Loon
(Ibid Records)

Top 10 best sellers at Stinkweeds, 12 West Camelback Road

Chart-busters for the week

Minus the Bear, Rocky Votolato

Northwest passages

dios (malos)

R.J. should worry

The Thermals

Throwing genre labels out the window

Definitive Jux Tour

New York hip-hop spins in Tempe

The Heavenly States

Not your average pop-rock band

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Basement Ax

Built to Spill's Doug Martsch is a guitar hero for a generation not interested in 'em

Doug Martsch

Now You Know (Warner Bros.)

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

Annual Retentive

The 10 best rock 'n' roll records of '99

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

Growing Pains

After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love

Recordings

Critics' Choice

A year-end recap of the albums that made it worthwhile to own a stereo in 1997

Merge Slowly

Superchunk matures without junking its indie ideals