Subject: Built To Spill

• The Only Mash-Up That Matters

  October 6, 2006

• Good Friday: DallasLovesCash, Bridges and Blinking Lights, Nightwish

  November 9, 2007

• Perfect, now

  March 18, 1999

• Tom Waits for no one

  March 25, 1999

• Put up a fight

  March 25, 1999

• Scene, heard

  October 14, 1999

• Best live music venue

  September 21, 2000

• Best CD store (new)

  September 21, 2000

• Chomsky

  August 16, 2001

• Scene, Heard

  September 27, 2001

• Best of the Best

  January 3, 2002

• Failure Plus

  April 11, 2002

• Grand Archives

  March 6, 2008

• Dove Hunter, Doug Burr, Bridges and Blinking Lights

  Friday, February 15, at the Double Wide

  February 14, 2008

• Flying Squirrels

  March 9, 2006

• Independence Day

  What's indie rock? Who cares? Here are 10 great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition.

  December 28, 2006

• Perfect

  From Now On

  Older, wiser, and

  with a longer beard,

  Doug Martsch spills his "Conventional Wisdom"

  October 19, 2006

• Shapes and Sizes

  Shapes and Sizes (Asthmatic Kitty)

  July 20, 2006

• Music Mentor

  Casual music listeners shouldn't suffer from the boredom of radio and MTV

  April 20, 2006

• Dios (Malos)

  Dios (Malos) (Startime)

  November 10, 2005

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Plus: The Glasgow School, History Lesson

  October 6, 2005

• Rain or Shine

  We drove to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in ponchos, but we left wearing surgeon's masks

  September 29, 2005

• Built to Last

  Doug Martsch runs the biggest little band on Earth

  September 22, 2005

• Odds & Ends

  Rubber Gloves will soon be able to pour one out for the indie-rock homies

  August 11, 2005

• Odds & Ends

  Sara Radle's off to L.A.; LM5 calling it quits; Rubber Gloves gets anew look

  May 12, 2005

• Good Records Birthday Celebration

  Saturday, February 19, at Good Records

  February 17, 2005

• Cab Fare

  Death Cab for Cutie are the kings of rock. Sort of.

  November 6, 2003

• Now He Knows

  Built to Spill's Doug Martsch takes a solo side trip, after waking up with his mind on Jesus

  October 17, 2002

• Photo Finish

  Death Cab for Cutie sees itself as just a guitar band. You might not agree.

  November 8, 2001

• Out & About

  Built to Spill

  September 27, 2001

• Melody Maker

  Built to Spill's Doug Martsch might claim to be an amateur on the six-string, but don't let him fool you

  June 28, 2001

• Scene, Heard

  It's a big fuckin' deal

  March 15, 2001

• Out & About

  Caustic Resin

  December 7, 2000

• Your Bruises

  Death Cab for Cutie is just trying to stay healthy long enough to pay for a broken windshield

  October 26, 2000

• The weak in rock

  December 30, 1999

• Tell me when it's over

  The world might not be coming to an end, but maybe it should be

  December 30, 1999

• Silver Scooter

  September 2, 1999

• Distant Gig Alert: Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill at the Granada Theater on October 22

  We've gone a few weeks now without our (once) weekly Show Announcements posting about, go figure, upcoming shows that get announced each week. Sorry for the lapse there, folks--it'll make its way back soon enough, promise. In the meantime, let me use this post as an excuse to spread the word that, on Thursday, October 22, at the Granada Theater, Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr. will be rolling through town for a show for which the theater has yet to start selling tickets. Which is awesome because

  June 29, 2009

• Today In Music News: The Libertines May Reunite, Built To Spill Divulge Album Deets and Miles Davis Gets 8-Bit'ed

  Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 20, 2009...Pete Doherty is this close to getting The Libertines back together.  All that's left is the pesky business of convincing the front man you won't steal his equipment (again) and sell them for drugs and to go along with the plans.Built To Spill spill their guts about their new album and tracklist. Bizarre jazzbos of the Nintendo generation rejoice:  Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is

  August 20, 2009

• Throw Me the Statue, The Brunettes, Nurses

  September 10, 2009

• Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets to Catch Throw Me The Statue Tomorrow Night at The Cavern

  The Cavern's concert calendar has been a little bit dry of late, but that changes somewhat this weekend with Saturday night's lineup of Throw Me The Statue, The Brunettes and Nurses rolling through town as part of an impressive touring triple-bill. In this week's paper, contributor Chris Parker champions the virtues of the Seattle-based headliners, Throw Me The Statue, favorably comparing the act to a marriage of The Shins, Belle & Sebastian, Built To Spill and The New Pornographers. And t

  September 11, 2009

• Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To See Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill on Thursday, October 22, at the Granada Theater

  We've been geeking out about the upcoming Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill double-bill at the Granada for months now (four, to be specific), and now that it's almost here, well, really, we can hardly contain ourselves--which, I promise, is meant to read far more honestly and less facetiously than it does.And we're pretty stoked about this, too: The Granada Theater's just hooked us up with two free pairs of tickets to hand out to a couple of lucky DC9 readers today--which very easily could be you,

  October 9, 2009

• Gig Alerts: Trees Gets Busy With The Local Show Concert Series Tonight, And A Free Show From The Donnas Tomorrow Night

  ​A couple interesting shows over the next two night's at the still freshly re-opened Trees in Deep Ellum. Tonight, for instance, marks the second week of the Best DJ in Town's new weekly concert series at the venue. Continuing along the theme of his Sunday night "The Local Show" on KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge, Mark Schectman is now booking every Wednesday night at Trees with local bands only. And it's something of a competition, too, combining online voting and crowd reaction to determine a weekly

  October 21, 2009

• Built to Spill

  October 22, 2009

• Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr.,Lou Barlow & the Missing Men

  October 22, 2009

• Gig Alert: Lou Barlow's Free In-Store Performance at Good Records

  Lou Barlow​We're all pretty excited around here--and rightfully so, I'd say--about the Built to Spill/Dinosaur Jr. show at the Granada Theater this evening. No doubt you are, too.I just hope you have your tickets already--over the weekend, we'd heard sales to the show had already reached 900 tickets. So you can pretty much rest assured that the 1,100-capacity room at the Granada will be sold out tonight.So, then, for those who might end up left out, this should come as a nice little treat: At

  October 22, 2009

• Poster of the Week: Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Barlow And The Missingmen At The Granada Theater Thursday

  ​Round Rock artist Todd Slater designed this week's featured poster, which promotes tonight's bill of Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Barlow and the Missingmen at The Granada. Look closely and you'll see that the ants crawling all over the woman's face; the design was inspired by the lyric to BTS's "Aisle 13," which includes the lines "One day I'll come home to find you covered with ants 'cause you're so sweet." I'd thought that was a really dark verse, implying the narrator feared he'd f

  October 22, 2009

• Last Night: Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr. at the Granada Theater

  Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr., Lou Barlow & The Missing Men, Disco DoomGranada TheaterOctober 22, 2009 Better Than: a Thursday evening at home in your rocking chair.​ At his Good Records performance held earlier last night, Lou Barlow expressed his love for playing in the endangered venue of the record store. "I love playing record stores," he said. "It's like playing in a church--it's one of the only places where no one talks through the set." Well, Lou can add the Granada Theater to t

  October 23, 2009

• Picture Show: The Donnas, Rockett Queen Rock Trees

  Caity ColvardThe Donnas at last Thursday's free Trees show.​ Those not headed to last Thursday night's monster Built to Spill/Dinosaur Jr. double-bill had another nice little option--and a free one, no less--in the Hornitos-sponsored (and thus free) show from The Donnas and DFW's own Rockett Queen at Trees.And, boy, did the stars come out, among them a contestant from Paris Hilton's My New BFF and, I think, some guy from Daisy of Love. Or so I'm gathering from Caity Colvard's slideshow of Thur

  October 26, 2009

• In A Piece Written For Paste, Lou Barlow Equates Good Records To A Church

  ​In case there was any doubt that Nic Hernandez was spot on about Lou Barlow's in-store performance at Good Records last week, Barlow himself confirmed as much today. While out on the road right now with Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill, Barlow, who is playing at least two sets a day on this tour (one with Dino and a second with a set own solo material opening each show), is keeping a diary of his experiences for Paste's Web site.And, just as Nic had quoted Barlow as saying in his review, Barlo

  October 30, 2009