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Posted in music | tour dates on August 10, 2009

Built to Spill - cover songs & updated 2009 tour dates

Built to Spill @ the 2009 Siren Music Festival (more by Tim Griffin)
Built to Spill

"Over the past 17 years of touring, Built to Spill have become as famous for their cover songs as for any of their own material, having paid homage live to acts as diverse as M.I.A., David Bowie, the Talking Heads, Neil Young, Macy Gray, Modest Mouse, Ozzy Osbourne and on and on. The band is so fond of playing other people's songs that according frontman Doug Martsch, "when we play a cover it's the highlight of the evening for me every single night."

But as one would imagine for a band that has built such a reputation, BTS take the art of the cover song very seriously. "We're like a real cover band when we do covers -- we try to do it straight up for the most part," Martsch tells Spinner. "We don't make a joke out of it. We're trying to convey how great that song was in the first place."" [Spinner]

Tickets are still on sale for the four upcoming NYC Built to Spill shows. That includes the two at Webster Hall, the two at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and two-day passes for each venue. Those previously-announced October shows are part of a much larger tour. All dates, and a few videos of BTS playing covers, below...

Built to Spill cover MIA's Paper Planes

built to spill "third uncle" brian eno cover 7/7/07

Built To Spill cover Gladiator's "Rearrange"

Built to Spill covers Edit the Sad Parts! (Modest Mouse)

Built to Spill - 2009 Tour Dates
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

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posted at 9:50 AM on August 10, 2009 in music | tour dates | Comments (19)

Comments (19)

Best cover Built to Spill ever did was Talking Heads' "Dream Operator." I saw them do this during the summer of 2001... and I've been looking for a copy of a show where they played it ever since... to no avail.

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 11:06 AM

Cortez the Killer, especially live, kills it every time.

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 11:09 AM

it's weird... i got my tickets for the 15th in the mail, but not for the 13th even though they were shipped the same day... does that make sense? this is ticketmaster, we're talking about...

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 11:22 AM

My favorite BTS cover - Mr. Crowley

My favorite cover of BTS - Ben Folds doing Twin Falls

Posted by noamjamski | August 10, 2009 11:23 AM

Word on the Ben Folds!

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 11:57 AM

9/21 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre is incorrect.

Should be: *Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre*

Posted by kptron | August 10, 2009 1:30 PM

Best cover I ever heard from Built To Spill was in the mid-90's right after they got signed to Warner Bros when they did Steve Miller's "Take The Money And Run". http://www.imeem.com/people/fRIGc/music/L5Aq1spU/built-to-spill-take-the-money-and-run-live/

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 1:41 PM

Cheap Trick - Dream Police

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 1:46 PM

Freebird kills. You can download the mp3 online with a little looking. Great stuff. Also really good is their cover of Linus & Lucy. The shows at MHOW will be excellent!!!

Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2009 2:52 PM

While my guitar gently weeps was a finale at a show in 05 and it was awesome

Posted by zach | August 10, 2009 7:18 PM

hey anon 1:41 -- they were still dong that in the early 00's when i caught 'em. such a fun cover.

Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2009 9:53 AM

I dont know what show to attend !!! Lol The last one ???

Posted by Anonymous | August 17, 2009 7:40 PM

Don't forget the song he contributed to the Songs from the Big Top soundtrack, "Cracked and Crazed."

Posted by Devon Reed | August 21, 2009 7:36 PM

Brian Eno's Third Uncle was the scorching epicenter of the last tour. Even Robert Fripp would be impressed!

Posted by jeff | September 8, 2009 1:00 AM

Why do my tickets for the MHoW show on Wednesday night say "Happy Hour: 7:00-8:00pm" but it also says "doors 8pm?" What could it possibly mean?

Posted by Anonymous | October 12, 2009 10:57 AM

re 10:57
My guess is that because at MHOW as does the Bowery Ballroom opens their doors to the downstairs bar an hour or so before the actual venue doors open.

Posted by Anonymous | October 12, 2009 11:13 AM

Anon 10:57-

I've had several occasions where they claim the happy hour is being honored and it really isn't. They once told me to contact ticketmaster, or some bullshit like that.

Posted by Anonymous | October 12, 2009 11:14 AM

There is no enemy is the worst piece of crap album Doug's ever put out! I am psyched to see him play this week, but god I hope he plays anything but material from that new album.

Posted by wingwalker77 | October 12, 2009 11:51 AM

White man in hammersmith palais (the clash)....fall 03 maybe? 04? definitely NYC.......

Posted by dave cave | October 14, 2009 4:43 PM

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