{"id":912,"date":"2010-10-27T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/10\/built-to-spill-in-la.html"},"modified":"2010-10-27T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:09:00","slug":"built-to-spill-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/10\/built-to-spill-in-la.html","title":{"rendered":"Built to Spill in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TMhc8JaIQhI\/AAAAAAAABAM\/csVFgeQDb2Q\/s1600\/Built2spill.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TMhc8JaIQhI\/AAAAAAAABAM\/csVFgeQDb2Q\/s320\/Built2spill.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>IS Built to Spill the best indie rock band going? That&#8217;s always hard to say. But of the indie bands that broke in the 90s, this Boise collective that resembles a team of lumberjacks has put on the most consistently inspiring shows I&#8217;ve seen. With their two- and three-guitar attack, they manage to take interplay to places even Television didn&#8217;t dream. Their gig at the Echoplex not long ago was devastating, loud and precise at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2006\/jun\/29\/news\/wk-pop29\"><span><span>HERE<\/span><\/span><\/a><span> is my piece on the band from a few years back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really think of us as virtuosos,&#8221; singer-guitarist Doug Martsch, a mellow, pickup-basketball-and-Noam-Chomsky kind of guy, told me. &#8220;It&#8217;s more about a feel than putting out a bunch of notes; it&#8217;s about emotions coming out of the guitar.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>They&#8217;re at the El Rey Thursday night.<\/span>    <br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IS Built to Spill the best indie rock band going? That&#8217;s always hard to say. But of the indie bands that broke in the 90s, this Boise collective that resembles a team of lumberjacks has put on the most consistently inspiring shows I&#8217;ve seen. With their two- and three-guitar attack, they manage to take interplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213,40,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boise","7":"category-indie","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}