Built To Spill are gearing up to release their eighth studio album this spring. Warner Bros. confirm to Stereogum that the new album will be titled Untethered Moon, and it will be out in April. This is the band’s first album since 2009′s There Is No Enemy. Check out the tracklist below. 01 “All Our [...]

In a couple of months, the compilation Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One will pay tribute to the most neglected period in Robert Zimmerman’s career. (This is, of course, a relative thing; the Reagan-era version of Bob Dylan still gave us “Most Of The Time” and one fifth of “Handle With Care.”) The...

The strangest musical moment of my adult life came when I discovered that a lot of my friends were jam band people. It’s not like they kept it a secret, but they didn’t really make a point of talking about it either. Looking back, it made a lot of sense. Living in a post-freak-folk world, [...]

US band will perform alongside The Flaming Lips and Built To Spill in Oklahoma later this month    

You may have heard of The Electronic Anthology Project last year when Brett Netson (of Built To Spill and Caustic Resin) used his electronic side-project to reimagine Dinosaur Jr. as gorgeous synth pop. Now he’s done the same to Death Cab For Cutie. This might seem like a less strange pairing considering Gibbard is one [...]