Iron & Wine announces more tour dates

By Elizabeth Hendley at 8:06 AM on August 4, 2008

Sam Beam & Co. are already hitting the European festival circuit hard, and they'll return Stateside to play a slew of dates...  read more

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Blitzen Trapper to release Furr this fall

By Valentina Tapia at 10:08 AM on July 29, 2008

Portland, Ore.-based Blitzen Trapper will release its fourth album, Furr, on Sept. 23. It will be the band's Sub Pop debut, following last year's Wild Mountain Nation....  read more

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SXSW 2008: Blitzen Trapper - "Wild Mountain Nation"

By Culture Clubbers at 12:35 PM on April 21, 2008

Click above to watch Blitzen Trapper performing "Wild Mountain Nation" live at the Paste and Stereogum Dell Lounge party at SXSW 2008. Video courtesy of our friends at GameTap....  read more

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Blitzen Trapper tours extensively, releases many albums

By Liz Lawson at 6:06 PM on February 21, 2008

It's been business as usual for the ubiquitous boys of Blitzen Trapper, who recently signed to grunge-turned-indie-music-loving label Sub Pop. Determined to truly turn the United States into a Wild Mountain Nation, the band has taken to the road, and will be on the move, zig-zagging across a better part of the country well into April, with stops at the requisite spring festivals (Langerado and SXSW, we're looking at you). Labelmates Fleet Foxes will join them on the road for the entire tour (with the exception of the very beginning and the very end, sorry Portland, but really - you...  read more

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Blitzen Trapper takes the reins on mega tour

By Jeremy Goldmeier at 2:14 PM on January 9, 2008

Here is where Blitzen Trapper's training wheels come off. No more playing the role of unknown undercard to bands like The Hold Steady and Two Gallants. No more begging half-interested crowds to buy merch. And no more of this "aww, shucks" gratitude for just being here. This spring, Blitzen Trapper tackles its first headlining tour, and it's time to get serious. The band's grueling schedule includes a stop at the previously reported Langerado Music Festival, as well as a three-night residency at SXSW '08. Fleet Foxes play support for the majority of the trek. Who knows? They could be the...  read more

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Blitzen Trapper - "Wild Mountain Nation"

By Culture Clubbers at 1:29 PM on January 8, 2008

Click above to watch "Wild Mountain Nation" from Blizen Trapper's new album Wild Mountain Nation out now on LidKerCow Ltd....  read more

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Blitzen Trapper unveils new video, tours Europe

By Jeremy Goldmeier at 4:21 PM on November 19, 2007

One night this past summer I watched shaggy unknowns Blitzen Trapper open for The Hold Steady at a Columbia, Mo. gig. Shortly thereafter, the hipster media overlords at Pitchfork gave the band's Wild Mountain Nation a glowing review. You know what that means: I heard them before they got famous, chump! But music geek bragging aside, it's safe to say that Blitzen Trapper isn't your typical "blog hype" band. The New York crowd, for example, seems pre-packaged for maximizing immediate buzz and then fizzles out by album #3. Meanwhile, Blitzen Trapper was out blazing its own trail on two self-released...  read more

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Blitzen Trapper to tour with Two Gallants

By Kasia Galazka at 12:24 PM on August 2, 2007

Just having finished a nationwide tour with David Vandervelde, Blitzen Trapper is hitting the pavement again. If you’re anything like us, you just had an overwhelming desire to sing a little ditty along the lines of “on the road again...” But if you’re a busy commuter and just mentally told us to shove it, well, the band's self-released album Wild Mountain Nation will delight their international fans when it's released October 22. Just keep them away from Santa’s transportation come December: August: 1 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ Kilby Court 3 - Seattle, Wash. @ The Crocodile Cafe^ 5...  read more

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New video, remix from Blitzen Trapper

By Eric Lach at 12:00 AM on July 12, 2007

Recent Subpop signees Blitzen Trapper make the kind of music that we imagine lumberjack hipsters would listen to if they existed. The band has released a new video for “Woof & Warp Of The Quiet Giant’s Hem.” The band members pretend to play video games in an arcade using their guitars instead of joysticks and buttons. After you recover from the seizure, turns out the video is pretty kick ass. Also, Minotaur Shock (under alternate remix name Kingswood) remixes “Sci-Fi Kid”from Wild Mountain Nation. The original is like the illegitimate grunge offspring of the Grateful Dead, but, what do you...  read more

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