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	Doug Martsch: Concerts and Music Events on washingtonpost.com's City Guide
		Doug Martsch's penchant for playing with sound and venturing in new musical directions drives everything he works on, so it's hardly surprising that the Built to Spill frontman takes another turn on his first solo project.
		Martsch's off-kilter poetry and enigmatic musings give way at times to songs with an understandable language of defiance.
		Martsch, who played everything on the disc himself -- save for a few cello parts and other odds and ends -- hints here at what could be next for Built to Spill, the Boise-based band he guided along the fringes of alternative rock's huge successes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/cityguide/profile?id=1076892&p=print (514 words)

	Doug Martsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doug Martsch, a native of Boise, Idaho, is best known for his distinctive vocals and guitar style in the band Built to Spill.
		Martsch's guitar style blends rock, pop, blues and folk.
		His influences include J Mascis, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Caustic Resin, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Neil Young.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doug_Martsch (145 words)

	Built to Spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Former Treepeople lead Doug Martsch formed Built To Spill in 1992 with Brett Netson and Ralf Youtz as the band's original members.
		In an interview with Spin magazine, Martsch stated that he intended to change the band's lineup for every album, with Martsch being the only permanent member.
		[2] In late March 2006, however, frontman Doug Martsch suffered a detached retina that required surgery, causing the band to cancel its appearance at the South by Southwest music festival and postpone several of their tour dates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Built_to_Spill (806 words)

	Doug Martsch - PopMatters Concert Review
		Martsch is the unlikeliest of heroes, a guitar deity who quietly maneuvers through his solo acoustic set as if he's in his living room, four-tracking with headphones on, pajama-clad, unshaven.
		Martsch is a master at making other people's music his own; the Clash and Smiths covers sound contemporary alongside his original material.
		And tonight Martsch is the consummate storyteller: a true voice, high and nasal, stringing together the pieces of his musical past and present.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/m/martsch-doug-021120.shtml (804 words)

	Built To Spill-Bio
		During the late 80's and early 90's Doug Martsch was a member of the Boise pop punk quartet Treepeople.
		Doug claims that he didn't have much to do with the project which was mostly the brainchild of producer Phil Ek.
		Martsch is also involved in a collaboration with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening, Ralf Youtz, and Wayne Flower called the Halo Benders.
	members.tripod.com /~truk2112/btsbio.html (425 words)

	emplive.org - Create - Elements of a Song - In the Studio with Built To Spill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DOUG MARTSCH: Perfect from Now On was basically a bunch of little parts all getting stuck together onto a record.
		PHIL EK: Doug didn't have a band at the time, and so he got this drummer to come in and do the drums, and he was going to do everything else on it but drums, and that was probably just too much of a handful for him.
		And then Doug would go back and re-listen to it, and be a little bit more particular — pick like a five-second part, like, "Oh, that's a good part" — and dump these all down onto one master cassette tape.
	www.emplive.org /create/built_to_spill/rehearsing.asp (1312 words)

	emplive.org - Create - Elements of a Song - In the Studio with Built To Spill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Melody and guitar parts are pretty important to a song, and so obviously Doug's going to be a little bit more connected to the way he wants them to sound.
		DOUG MARTSCH: I was working on doing some overdubs at home for the new record and I was getting really burned out on it and didn't really feel like I was having any luck.
		DOUG MARTSCH: I've recorded enough that I've realized that the less pre-conceived ideas you have about how the song is going to be recorded, the better off you're going to be because you can end up just spending so much time and energy trying to get your vision across and never succeeding.
	www.emplive.org /create/built_to_spill/collaboration.asp (1376 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Built To Spill :: This Meaning Will Self-Destruct (Page 1)
		Many of the lyrics Martsch and his wife patched together out of sometimes-random, meter-fitting phrases for the new album deal with embracing the possibility that every gesture, ideology or utterance is freighted with inaccuracies.
		Martsch acknowledges that portions of the new tracks are, to him, “about the administration, Republicans, right-wingers, people who spend all their time trying to deceive people.
		Martsch may distrust the concrete authority of language and its abusers, but one word that his music has helped rescue from marketplace propagandists is “epic.” His 13 years of guitartistry—17 if you count his stretch in Treepeople—definitely qualify Built To Spill for maximum rotation within the painfully imaginary Classic Indie Rock radio format.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=2980 (445 words)

	Zydeco Birmingham
		From the outset, the band was a vehicle for singer/songwriter/guitarist Doug Martsch, who revived the concept of the indie guitar hero just as Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis -- another important influence -- was beginning to fade from the limelight.
		Martsch had grown up in Twin Falls, ID, where he formed his first band, Farm Days, with bassist Brett Nelson and drummer Andy Capps while in high school during the mid-'80s.
		Martsch formed a new lineup of Built to Spill with former Lync rhythm section James Bertram (bass) and Dave Schneider (drums), but this incarnation existed only for a series of live gigs in America and Europe during 1995, which included a stint on the second stage of that summer's Lollapalooza tour.
	www.ticketbiscuit.com /zydecobirmingham/EventPage.aspx?EID=2891 (1029 words)

	Morphizm.com -- Built To Spill Live
		So it was armed with the knowledge that Martsch and Co. might stretch their already long songs longer that I headed to the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, stoked to finally witness the guitar god's chops up close and personal.
		Martsch's compositions are so laced with complexities that he spent as much of what amounted to stage time — that is presence time, the period in which someone in an elevated space has to perform or otherwise distance his audience — as he did in performance time preparing for his songs.
		I was savoring the chance to see the intensity of that tune explode onstage as it does on the studio track, but Martsch played the low pro, and ended the song surreptitiously before it could reach the howling wah pedal frenzy that I had come to associate with the band altogether.
	www.morphizm.com /recommends/btslive.html (1231 words)

	Built to Spill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Martsch refused to drive across the country for a single show that wasn't originally a part of the band's itinerary.
		Martsch sings "You were wrong when you said everything's going to be all right" before quoting Shakespeare and a long procession of classic rock references.
		Martsch is as much of a music fan as he is a musician.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1999/030499/A11.BuiltToSpi.html (971 words)

	Music \| Doug Martsch
		Still hanging by a thread to his Warner Bros. contract, Doug Martsch, the quirky singer-songwriter and indie guitar hero who was embraced as a critic’s darling for his psychedelic explorations with Built To Spill (not to mention his searing live shows), veers off on his own on his first ever solo album.
		Since Martsch pretty much runs the show in Built To Spill, you wouldn’t expect a major departure here — and apart from the prevalence of acoustic guitars, you don’t get one.
		Martsch uses his music as a way of entering a free-associating trance state — which means the lyrics are almost always cryptic.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02450634.htm (285 words)

	Plan 9 - Doug Martsch : Now You Know (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Personnel includes: Doug Martsch (vocals, various instruments, guitar); John McMahon (cello); Travis Ward (bass); Daren Adair (drums).
		Doug Martsch, best known as the frontman for alt-rock darlings Built To Spill, is best known for his quirky indie-rock vision, but at a certain point he found himself getting into traditional, acoustic country blues, particularly the work of such artists as Mississippi Fred McDowell.
		Despite Martsch's inclinations, this is far from a blues album.
	www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=09362483382 (281 words)

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		Five seconds into Doug Martsch's solo debut, Now You Know, and it's obvious that this is his best work since 1997's Built to Spill album, Perfect From Now On.
		To break free from those chains, Martsch has moved his soft gaze backwards — ironically, to the blues, a genre with roots in slavery.
		Martsch's guitar playing fits perfectly with the slide-heavy country blues that he explores in songs like "Dream" and "Gone" on Now You Know.
	www.neumu.net /fortyfour/2002/2002-00193/2002-00193_review.shtml (293 words)

	Doug Martsch: Now You Know - PopMatters Music Review
		A singing voice that's both light as air and gruff, a head-in-the-clouds daydreamer's perspective that's tempered with seemingly real-life anecdotes and stories, a taste for the heady in rock, with a constant nods towards Neil Young and Crazy Horse in particular.
		Martsch's first solo album delves into a genre which has its own blend of physicality and mysticism: the blues.
		"There's no way of deciding which half of life is less inviting/awake or a dream" Martsch sings at one point, reflecting his standard probing into the workings of the universe while echoing the feel of the music itself, which often walks that beautiful line between dream-life and awake-life.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/martschdoug-now.shtml (611 words)

	Doug Martsch MP3 Downloads - Doug Martsch Music Downloads - Doug Martsch Music Videos
		Singer/guitarist Doug Martsch of Built to Spill is a major guitar wanker.
		On his first solo record, he plays some fine slide guitar, especially on "Window," where he slithers around on the instrument like he was born in Mississippi rather than Idaho, and also "Gone," which has a lovely chorus and is probably one of the finest songs he's penned.
		When he sticks with the slide guitar, Martsch's combination of down-home blues and meandering indie rock is a winning one.
	www.mp3.com /albums/549919/summary.html (345 words)

	Boise Weekly - Not Your Everyday Newspaper: Features: Feature: Built to Last
		It's been five years since Martsch and Built to Spill put out an album and the wait for a new one is finally over.
		Even though I hadn't seen Martsch in almost 20 years, when he stepped through the studio door, I flashed to a memory of the 17-year-old Martsch who used to play guitar on the front porch of his friend's house.
		Granted, he now has a little less hair on his head and a little more on his face (and a big, fl patch over his right eye as he heals from surgery for a detached retina), but the boy was still there.
	www.boiseweekly.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:160735 (2520 words)

	Music preview: Doug Martsch - Salon.com
		Martsch says he began experimenting with the slide guitar after hearing Alan Lomax's front-porch recordings of legendary bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell.
		Instead, Martsch's intricate fingerpicking and slide work are a foundation for his compelling, lonesome-West vocals.
		Fans missing Martsch's impressive plugged-in sound will enjoy the Built to Spill-like "Instrumental" and "Impossible." And Martsch shows off his knack for writing beautiful ballads with the folksy "Heart (Things Never Shared)," two short verses bookending a lovely slide solo that rises into the sky before gently settling back to earth.
	dir.salon.com /story/audio/music/2002/10/09/doug_martsch/index.html (249 words)

	Venus Zine: Doug Martsch
		For Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, who grew up in Boise, Idaho — a town nestled against the foothills of the Rockies — small-town music scenes are vital.
		With the Halo Benders, Martsch and Johnson were responsible for the song “Bombshelter Part 2,” one of the most powerful anti-war songs ever written.
		Martsch’s repetitive refrain eddies through frenetic distortion and propulsive drumming, setting the tone for the remainder, generating a record replete with ominous unbridled psychedelia.
	www.venuszine.com /articles/music/features/2140/Doug_Martsch (1062 words)

	San Diego CityBEAT
		Solo, Martsch is bluesier and more stripped-down than the indie rock of Built to Spill.
		Fans got a taste of isolated Martsch from the tracks included on Built to Spill's Live album.
		Doug Martsch and Mike Johnson perform at the Casbah on June 14.
	www.sdcitybeat.com /articleslamm.php?id=1482&atype= (90 words)

	Doug Martsch - Now You Know - almost cool music review
		When I first heard Built To Spill back in the day (my first exposure to the group was on their excellent Perfect From Now On release, I won't pretend to be down with them from the start), I wondered how in the heck that they managed to finesse a major-label record deal.
		It's on that untitled song that all the gloss is stripped away and Martsch actually gets down to the soul of things more than any other track on the disc.
		Still, Martsch hasn't made himself out to be a saviour or anything, and it's not really right to expect that of the release.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/805 (559 words)

	Doug Martsch: Now You Know (2002): Reviews
		When he sticks with the slide guitar, Martsch's combination of downhome blues and meandering indie-rock is a winning one.
		The aptly titled "Now You Know" shouldn't be perceived as the end of Martsch's indie rock affiliation, but the sound of an artist delving deeper, and in doing so, hitting his stride.
		Martsch continues the sub-greatness trend of his recent work, releasing another record that fails to carry the weight of the canonical two-fer that lies at the center of his career.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/martschdoug/nowyouknow (546 words)

	In Music We Trust - Doug Martsch: Now You Know
		Built To Spill mastermind Doug Martsch, during BTS's break period, decided to record a solo record.
		Unlike other rock frontman who go in to stroke their egos and record a solo record that ends up sounding like their main outlet (oft-times the solo project is the acoustic or less-rocking counterpart of the full band), Martsch wanted to do something different.
		Martsch's voice sounds spot on, timeless enough to fit right in with the era he is going for, but modern enough to not sound out of place with the rest of the music.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/54r22.html (267 words)

	C/Z Records \| Built To Spill
		Built to Spill came from unusual parents: Doug Martsch used to be the chief songwriter for the Treepeople.
		Martsch enlisted the services of guitar friend Brett Netson from Boise's misunderstood psychedelic warriors Caustic Resin (whose debut Body Love Body Hate is available from C/Z) and a mysterious percussion fella named Ralf from Eugene, Oregon.
		Martsch's motivation for recording this record was initially unknown, but considering that Doug has become one of the most lauded creative forces in the Northwest, C/Z is proud to have been the launching pad for such a prestigious career...plus, we believe this is one of the best records C/Z has ever released.
	www.czrecords.com /artist.php?ARTIST_ID=4 (268 words)

	Doug Martsch -- "Now You Know" (printable version)
		All Doug Martsch needed was a break from his band Built to Spill to once again show his prodigious talent.
		After one weak studio record and a merely decent live album, Martsch returns for his first true solo record, and it’s quite a switch from BTS’ angular, rock-heavy music.
		For most of the CD’s second half, Martsch performs full-band songs closer to prime BTS, including an incindary cover of Fred McDowell’s “Woke Up This Morning” and a climactic original called “Impossible” with a wild wah-wah solo at the end.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=29284 (201 words)

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