Built to Spill at Belly Up Tavern

“Friday at Belly Up. Boise indie rock catalog playing the…”

Some guitar leads earn the right to go on as long as they feel like going on, and Doug Martsch's are the argument for the whole practice. Melodic, patient, loud enough to stay honest across a road trip's worth of miles. He has been running the Boise catalog since 1992, a band that built its following one drive at a time instead of one radio spin at a time, which is why this room fills with people who own the records on vinyl and are now in their forties, standing beside the ones who learned the catalog from them. Belly Up is the right size for that in this county: six hundred capacity, close enough to read the setlist taped to the floor, a room where nobody is more than a few rows from anything. Bring the friend who put There's Nothing Wrong With Love on every mixtape they ever made for anybody. They have been waiting a very long time to hear it in a room this size.