There’s Nothing Wrong with Love is the classic second full-length album from Built to Spill, released by the Pacific Northwest indie label Up Records on September 13th, 1994. Now, a day before its 30th anniversary, you can secure a new pressing of the album on a limited edition “Up Records Blue” vinyl. 
 
The enduring There’s Nothing Wrong with Love features the songs “In the Morning,” “Car,” “Distopian Dream Girl,” “Big Dipper,” and “Twin Falls.” The record features the lineup of Doug Martsch, bassist Brett Nelson, cello from John McMahon, and late drummer Andy Capps, with Phil Ek producing.
 
Built to Spill’s current lineup of Martsch, bassist Melanie Radford, drummer Teresa Esguerra, and cellist McMahon are on the road celebrating the 30th anniversary of the album by playing it in its entirety for adoring fans.
 
Those tour dates continue with a show tonight, September 12th, in Charleston, SC, at the Music Farm and run through September 29th in Sacramento, CA, at Harlow’s. Along the way, the band will see support from Miniaturized (September 12th -September 17th) and current Sub Pop (and former Up Records) labelmates Quasi, who are also celebrating the 30th anniversary of Featuring “Birds” (September 18th-September 29th). Please find a complete list of dates below.
 

 
There’s Nothing Wrong with Love was wonderfully received by critics upon its release. It earned “Best Albums of 90’s” notices from outlets including Pitchfork, PASTE, SPIN, and Consequence of Sound.
 
There’s Nothing Wrong With Love is available to order now from Sub Pop Mega Mart, Bandcamp, the band’s live shows, and select independent retailers (while supplies last!). 
 
You can also watch/listen to the There’s Nothing Wrong With Love playlist, featuring official videos for “In The Morning,” “Car,” “Fling,” and “Big Dipper” via the Up Records YouTube channel.
 

“Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch put Boise, Idaho, on the musical map with sprawling guitars, nasally vocals and heartfelt lyrics. Before the group fleshed out their sound with the guitar bits, BTS won over listeners with these straightforward, poignant songs. It’s an intimate glimpse inside one of indie rock’s great songwriters before he found himself.” 90 Best Albums of the 90’s” - PASTE
 
“True or false: Doug Martsch is the Peter Frampton of 1990s indie? Sure, he might not have the hair, the tight pants, or the voice box, but it’s difficult to think of another soul more worthy of resident guitar god; maybe J Mascis, but he never brought the pop side like King Framp. That’s the side most in evidence on There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, before Martsch started bringing the sprawl in spades. Humble, wry song-tales about heads-up-seven-up, Albertson’s stir-fry, and Bowie-hating stepdads abound, while earnest tracks like “Twin Falls” and “Big Dipper” set the pace for the entire Northwestern indie-pop scene.” Top 100 Albums of the 1990’s” - Pitchfork
 
“…Their second full-length and first genuinely great record…There’s Nothing Wrong With Love is the sound of scrappy mountain manchildren toying with their powers, pushing the limits of their form, setting the table for future tours de force.” STEREOGUM
 
“The second album by Boise, Idaho’s Built to Spill was the cuddliest little guitar epic of the decade. Just as the luster was wearing off the grunge gold rush, singer guitarist Doug Martsch challenged slacker cynicism with basement-band symphonies that turned his own private Idaho into indie rock’s last unknown territory.” “Greatest Albums of the 90’s” - SPIN
 
“…Love is an absolute classic from the decade, setting the pace for the band in the way their debut just barely missed. Youthful stories combine with sweet melodies and sweeping guitars from Martsch. Really though, it’s the story of all our suburban lives. There’s something comforting in the record’s ability to be relatable on such a universal level…Listen and try it yourself, because not many records are capable of this.” “Dusting ‘Em Off” - Consequence of Sound

Built to Spill

There’s Nothing Wrong With Love
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Tracklisting:
1. In the Morning
2. Reasons
3. Big Dipper
4. Car
5. Fling
6. Cleo
7. The Source
8. Twin Falls
9. Some
10. Distopian Dream Girl
11. Israel’s Song
12. Stab

Today, September 12th, Clipping shares the official video for the new song “Run It,” directed by Lawrence Klein. The fast-paced visual, which stars the group (Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson) as a jet-setting international criminal export organization, was shot across three continents and six countries (US, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, India, and the Czech Republic). “Run It” was written and produced by Clipping, mixed by Steve Kaplan, and mastered by Levi Seitz at Blackbelt Mastering.
 
“Run It” is from Clipping’s forthcoming new album, a long-in-the-works Hip-Hop and Cyberpunk project, due worldwide from Sub Pop in 2025. This is also the first new material since the release of the group’s acclaimed horrorcore series Visions of Bodies Being Burned (2020) and There Existed An Addiction To Blood (2019), also available from Sub Pop.
 
Clipping will appear at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival on Saturday, March 29th, 2025. Tickets for the fest are on sale now—additional tour dates to be announced soon.

Sub Pop is proud to present “John Waters Covers ‘The Singing Dogs’ “Jingle Bells’” b/w “It’s a Punk Rock Christmas,” a new 7” single available ahead of “A John Waters Christmas,” his annual holiday tour. The single will be released worldwide on November 8th through, you guessed it, Sub Pop.
 
The A-side single features a parody version of The Singing Dogs’ “Jingle Bells’,” which takes the Christmas classic on a howling turn that should delight (and possibly dismay) dog owners everywhere. Meanwhile, the B-side, “It’s a Punk Rock Christmas,” is a raunchy spoken word yarn about the lack of the punk rock spirit during the anxiety-provoking season.

The new single was produced by Grammy-winner Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, The Good Ones [Rwanda], poet Raymond Antrobus, Parchman Prison Prayer) who produced all of Waters’ previous three singles. Brennan states, “In producing John’s annual Christmas tour for over twenty years, it seemed almost negligent that he didn’t have a Christmas record. Everyone from U2 to Justin Bieber to William Shatner to Bob Dylan does, and John’s wit couldn’t be a more fitting cheer for the annual holiday music canon.”
 
The Pope of Trash has also announced his annual “A John Waters Christmas” comedy tour, which begins Sunday, December 1st, in Santa Cruz, CA, at Rio Theatre and ends Thursday, December 19th, in Baltimore, MD, at Baltimore SoundStage. Tickets for these shows are on sale now.
 

 
“John Waters Covers ‘The Singing Dogs’ “Jingle Bells’” b/w “It’s a Punk Rock Christmas” is available to preorder on Clear with Red and Green Swirl vinyl from Sub Pop Mega Mart in North America, MM2 in the UK and Europe, and select independent retailers worldwide.       
                          
“John Waters Covers ‘The Singing Dogs’ “Jingle Bells’” b/w “It’s a Punk Rock Christmas” follows the 2022 release of “It’s In the Book” (which features Waters covering a stand-up routine recorded and made famous by midwestern-US comedian/actor/musician Johnny Standley in 1952), and his 2021 single, “Prayer to Pasolini” (his tribute to the legendarily controversial Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini). Both singles are also available from Sub Pop.

John Waters
“John Waters Covers ‘The Singing Dogs’ Jingle Bells”’ b/w “It’s a Punk Rock Christmas” 

Tracklisting:
A. “John Waters Covers ‘The Singing Dogs’ Jingle Bells”’
B. “It’s a Punk Rock Christmas”