Nashville Music Blog

​Built to Spill's new album There Is No Enemy (their first in three years after 2006's You In Reverse) comes out Oct. 6. They've scheduled a fall tour that kicks off in Oregon in 10 days, taking these masters of bendy, heartfelt bombast down the West Coast and to states like Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. States just like ours, only in cities that will make us feel like shit when we find out that they won't be playing in Nashville, but Memphis. What's Memphis ever done for anybody? I kid. Hey, would it make you feel even worse to know that the dates immediately after the Memphis appearance are with Dinosaur Jr.? Because they are.

Anyhoo, hit the road Oct. 21 to hear songs off the new record that frontman Doug Martsch has described as "pretty poppy" and "with lots of guitars." Sounds like a real departure. Full schedule after the jump-a-tron.

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 *
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

*w/Dinosaur Jr.