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Builder

Builder plays rock music

About Me

Builder plays rock music. With so many sub-genres out there its hard to know where a band fits these days. Builder comes out of Kansas City with a sound that not only rocks hard, but also encapsulates beauty, melody and lyricism. They burnish their songs through a live show rendered as if their lives depend on it.Builder is Isaac Anderson (guitars, vocals, motivational speaking), Mike Crawford (vocals, guitar, poetry), Eric Kautzi (drums, film-making) and Vince Lavergne (bass, mathematics).Combining influences as wide ranging as Pavement, The Pixies, The Beatles, Calexico, Wilco, The Velvet Underground, New Order, early-REM, The Smiths, Elliot Smith, Neil Young, The Clash, and Broken Social Scene - Builder has crafted their own voice of yearning, lyrical songs paired with a melodic/angular twin-guitar + fluid rhythm-section sound. Their new songs are densely melodic and joyfully rocking

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Member Since: 7/17/2006
Band Website: buildermusic.com
Band Members: Isaac Anderson : - guitar, vocals

Mike Crawford : - guitar, vocals

Eric Kautzi : - drums

Vince Lavergne : - bass

Influences: Pavement, The Pixies, The Beatles, Calexico, Wilco, The Velvet Underground, New Order, early-REM, The Smiths, Elliot Smith, Neil Young, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Sigur Ros, South San Gabriel, Gillian Welch, The Clash, Miracle Legion, Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Thelonious Monk, Amiee Mann, Múm, Broken Social Scene...and on and on forever
Sounds Like: "Wee have also Sound-Houses, wher wee practise and demonstrate all Sounds, and their Generation. Wee have Harmonies which you have not, of Quarter-Sounds and lesser Slides of Sounds. Diverse Instruments of Musick likewise to you unknowne, some sweeter then any you have; Together with Bells and Rings that are dainty and sweet. Wee represent Small Sounds as Great and Deepe; Likewise Great Sounds, Extenuate and Sharpe; Wee make diverse Tremblings and Warblings of Sounds, which in their Originall are Entire. Wee rep resent and imitate all Articulate Sounds and Letters, and the Voices and Notes of Beasts and Birds. Wee have certaine Helps, which sett to the Eare doe further the Hearing greatly. Wee have also diverse Strange and Artificiall Eccho's, Reflecting the Voice many times, and as it were Tossing it; And some that give back the Voice Lowder then it came, some Shriller, and some Deeper; Yea, some rendring the Voice, Differing in the Letters or Articulate Sound, from that they receyve. Wee have also meanes to convey Sounds in Trunks and Pipes, in strange Lines, and Distances.":

- Francis Bacon - : The New Atlantis: - 1624 A.D.:

Record Label: Flat Earth Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

So long for now...

Hey everybody- We just wanted to let you know that Builder is taking an intentional hiatus. We've been really stop and start for the past year and a half and have decided to make it officially "stop" ...
Posted by Builder on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:28:00 PST

Autumnal Listening - 2006

Autumnal ListeningOk, it..s time for some new music. The leaves are the perfect mix of sunset/vermillion/ochre/brown to go with the bright cobalt-blue sky and I can smell the melancholia in the air. F...
Posted by Builder on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

Summertime listening

Hey everyone-Thought I might drop some summer listening tips on you. I was reading an interview a few months back with Daniel Lanois in Guitar Player magazine.He was talking about how certain cds can ...
Posted by Builder on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:24:00 PST