Slacker rock pioneer Doug Martsch is taking his ever-changing creative vehicle, Built to Spill, back on the road to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s 1994 sophomore album, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love. The Idaho-based act will be stopping in the District on September 9th to perform their seminal LP in its entirety at the 9:30 Club.
Driven by Dinosaur Jr.-esque guitar tones and Martsch’s whiny, yet endearing vocals, the record is a collection of deeply heartfelt coming-of-age tales that acts as a much more earnest alternative to Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand – two other genre-defining albums released in 1994. While the band’s two-month run is not a reunion of the original 1992 lineup, frontman Martsch has invited John McMahon – the studio cellist featured on There’s Nothing Wrong With Love – to accompany him alongside Built to Spill newcomers, bassist Melanie Radford and drummer Teresa Esguerra. Thirty odd years later, Built to Spill is still an incredibly tight live act and There’s Nothing Wrong With Love remains a perfect album for any college kid who simply misses home.
You can grab tickets here! Doors are at 7:00pm.
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