You think Ron Artest and Bruce Bowen are tough defenders? Well hippied-out Built to Spill frontman (and journeyman small forward) Doug Martsch will deny you the lane again and again if you dare step to him one-on-one. Just try playing Built to Spill Jams. Doug also blew my mind last night at Brooklyn's finest rock venue/pierogi restaurant, Warsaw. Between the early-autumn head cold and the Zywiec, my brain was putty in his Fender-bending hands. (Thanks to Kim T.A.G. for keeping me semi-conscious.) A bit of preaching-to-the-choir liberal self-righteousness aside, the show was fantastic. Space-freak guitar solos abounded, and set-closer "Carry the Zero" nearly brought the house down. Other highlights included a continuous slide show featuring cute and bizarre art (including a lot of stuff by You in Reverse cover artist Mike Scheer... Not Maurice fucking Sendak, stupid guy standing next to us); a kickass version of "Goin' Against Your Mind," and a feedback-drenched, face-melting "Randy Described Eternity" encore... which, admittedly, I couldn't make it all the way through. We could still hear the geetars squawkin' behind us as we walked on home.
Anyway, Mike nabbed a bunch of good pix, and they're up at his AOL Indie Music Blog post.
Speaking of beer-induced fugue states, this is potentially disastrous news. Dedicated beer drinkers may be forced to resort to THIS:
Finally, ASTRO-BOY is a man-whore!! [Thanks Caleb]
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