In 2019, Built To Spill celebrated 20 years of Keep It Like A Secret with an anniversary tour. Today, they announced two anniversary shows to celebrate 30 years of There’s Nothing Wrong With Love with Yo La Tengo, one in Portland and one in Seattle.

Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie recently told a story about Doug Martsch on Damian Abraham’s podcast Turned Out A Punk. I can’t confirm if the events of this story actually took place, but it’s worth telling anyways.

Later this summer, Doug Martsch’s long-running indie rock institution Built To Spill will return with When The Wind Forgets Your Name, their first album for new home Sub Pop. This time around, Martsch is backed up by Lê Almeida and João Cases, two members of the Brazilian jazz-rock band Oruã, but all the early tracks from the album ...

A couple months ago, Built To Spill announced their first new album in seven years, When The Wind Forgets Your Name, the follow-up to 2015’s Untethered Moon and their first for Sub Pop after 20 years on Warner Records. So far, we’ve heard two tracks from it — “Gonna Lose” and “Understoo...

Later this year, the real BTS, the transcendent Idaho indie rock institution Built To Spill, will release When The Wind Forgets Your Name, their first album for new label Sub Pop. Frontman Doug Martsch produced the record, and the LP features him playing with Lê Almeida and João Casaes, two members of the Brazilian band Oruã. (When BTS tour l...