New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Warner Bros. Records) - Boise, Idaho's Built to Spill, one of modern rock's most endearing and enduring iconic rock mainstays, will hit the road for an extensive U.S. headlining tour beginning in August. The tour - which kicks off on August 20th with a show in Oregon with Warner Bros. Records label-mates The
Flaming Lips - criss-crosses the country through the fall before concluding November 20th in Seattle.
Built to Spill will be previewing tracks from their upcoming studio album There Is No Enemy, their seventh, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records on October 6th, 2009. Vocalist/guitarist Doug Martsch spent three and a half years writing the songs, which he recorded with drummer Scott Plouf, guitarist Jim Roth, and bassist/guitarist Brett Nelson. There Is No Enemy is the band's first album since 2006's You In Reverse. Previous studio albums include 2001's Ancient Melodies of the Future, 1999's Keep It Like A Secret, and their major-label debut, 1997's Perfect From Now On.
For more about Built to Spill, please visit their website https://www.builtospill.com/ or MySpace page at www.myspace.com/builttospill.
Built to Spill's upcoming tour dates are as follows:
8/20 Troutdale, OR Edge Field (w/ The Flaming Lips)
8/22 Santa Barbara, CA Velvet Jones
8/23 Los Angeles, CA Sunset Junction
8/24 San Diego, CA The Casbah
8/25 Santa Ana, CA Galaxy Concert Theater
8/26 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
8/28 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Festival
8/29 Arcata, CA Humboldt State
9/18 Boise, ID Hyde Park Street Fair
9/19 Murray, UT Murray Theatre
9/20 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
9/21 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
9/23 Omaha, NE Slowdown
9/24 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
9/25 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre
9/26 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
9/27 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
9/28 Bloomington, IN Bluebird Nightclub
9/29 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
10/01 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
10/02 Newport, KY Southgate House
10/03 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Hall
10/04 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop
10/06 Toronto, ONT Lee's Palace
10/07 Toronto, ONT Lee's Palace
10/08 Ithaca, NY State Theatre
10/09 Cambridge, MA Middle East
10/10 Cambridge, MA Middle East
10/11 Cambridge, MA Middle East
10/12 New York, NY Webster Hall
10/13 New York, NY Webster Hall
10/14 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/15 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/16 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
10/17 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
10/18 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
10/20 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
10/21 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall
10/22 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
10/23 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
10/24 Austin, TX Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
10/25 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
10/27 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
10/28 Tucson, AZ Dry River
10/29 TBA
10/30 TBA
10/31 TBA
11/01 TBA
11/13 TBA
11/14 TBA
11/15 Eugene, OR WOW Hall
11/17 Bellingham, WA The Nightlight
11/18 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
11/19 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
11/20 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
