Blitzen Trapper is known for a dizzyingly rapid-fire approach to its musical influences, channeling both the ramshackle slacker assault of Pavement and the roots-rock swagger of Creedence Clearwater ...

Even with momentum growing for Blitzen Trapper's "Furr" in the wake of strong year-end poll mentions, the Portland group's fifth album is "well underway." By Gary Graff Even with momentum growing for ...

American music can mean a lot of things to different people. It's jazz. It's folk. It's hip-hop. For the Americana band Blitzen Trapper, "American music" means the music that reminds them most of home ...

In the short film The Blitzen Trapper Massacre, Rainn Wilson, the guy who plays Dwight Schrute on "The Office", attempts to join Blitzen Trapper. When the band rejects him, Wilson performs a few ...

The alt-folk-rock band Blitzen Trapper came into its own with Wild Mountain Nation, one of 2007's best albums, but the new Furr could easily be overshadowed by comparison. As part of the band's ...

There’s a moment in Almost Famous (the greatest movie of all time) where William Miller tells Russell Hammond, lead guitarist of Stillwater, that his guitar sound is “incendiary.” That’s kind of how I ...

We headed to the Revival Stage last night to catch the later half of Blitzen Trapper’s set. We watched with dropped jaws as the band rocked through songs from their latest album, American Goldwing. We ...

Folk rockers Blitzen Trapper debuted a theatrical stage show in their hometown of Portland, OR earlier this year called Wild and Reckless. It included new original songs written just for that show, ...

Blitzen Trapper have written a musical called Wild And Reckless, and they’ll be performing it in their hometown of Portland starting next month. “It was a group of story songs that centered around ...

The first season of FX series Fargo, loosely based on the Coen Brothers 1996 film of the same name, defied expectations by being really good. The second season continues to defy, by actually being ...

Back when I was busy tearing up the Seattle youth music scene in my flannel shirt and ripped jeans, there were three questions that I would always get asked. Who are your influences? What does your ...

Blitzen Trapper are marking the 10th anniversary of their debut album by reissuing a deluxe version for Record Store Day. The new reissue includes five bonus tracks culled from the recording sessions ...