Tonight in Baltimore Rams Head Live has great show with Iron & Wine and Blitzen Trapper. Down in DC the 9:30 Club has the Eagles Of Death Metal and The Duke Spirit while the Black Cat has a great show of Little Joy and The Dead Trees. Finally in Philly Margot and the [...]
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Noise Pop is a festival thrown in San Francisco....that starts this Wednesday until Sunday. While everyone bites their teeth for SXSW, San Fran welcomes a niche pick of indie bands like Magnetic Fields, M. Ward, Blitzentrapper, and British Sea Power, to various venues...I've never been but thought I'd check it out this year....Some bands I am looking forward to?Blitzen Trapper is southern rock ...
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Portland, Oregon collective Blitzen Trapper have announced the release of a new EP as well as a rather giant tour of America and Europe. The band were selling a six-track CD on their tour in 2008 that featured unreleased material and it is this material plus an old track that featured on their debut LP Furr that will make up the EP.
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Blitzen Trapper have a new EP out that you can listen to exclusively on LALA (embedded below). The song “Black River Killer” sounds like a cover of soemthing. It’s a good song, maybe just has a timeless feel, but I can;t help but thinking Tom Petty on this one.Black River Killer EP - Blitze…Related:Songs to [...]
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I didn't even know this was coming out, but Lala is offering an exclusive listen to Blitzen Trappers new Black River Killer EP. The seven song EP features Furr standout "Black River Killer" backed with 6 previously unreleased songs that the band has been distributing on CD-R's at their live shows. Check it out here.
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The wonderfully talented Blitzen Trapper are kicking off an extensive U.S. tour Feb. 22. The Portland group is a collection of gentle, introspective talented fellows with a fondness for the 1960s, '70s, folk, country and wandering, bearded rock and roll, all of which is reflected in the rawness and twang of their soulful live set. Tour dates - 2/22 Seattle, WA Univ. of Washington #2/28 San Fran...
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Sometimes (although rarely), music videos make me like the song more. This is one of those cases. It's not like this video is amazing or anything, but it just seems to fit the feel of the song and compliment it well. Blitzen Trapper - Furr PigeonsandPlanes
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Our third day of the Pickathon Indie Roots Festival appropriately started at the Woods Stage with Deep Dark Woods. After a week of listening to this year’s Winter Hours, it was exciting to see how Deep Dark Woods would sound live. Lead singer and guitarist Ryan Boldt harkens back to Neil Young’s early recordings as he glides through a sad and beautiful album of wandering men and unfaithful wom
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i’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sinbut they say it’s never too late to start again♫ Blitzen Trapper- Black River KillerI just realized that my last two posts were a bit electro-dance-club heavy so I’ll slow it down a bit here… for both of our sakes. Blitzen Trapper hail from Portland, Oregon, and have a handful…
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Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer
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Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper released a seven song EP yesterday featuring the band's previously released murder ballad "Black River Killer" and six tracks previously only available on CD-Rs sold on tour. The material may be recycled for some, but for others it's a chance to sit down with some of the band's most accessible songs. "Big Black Bird" and "Silver Moon"—with their booming drums .
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US band Blitzen Trapper will head out on tour to Australia later this year.Critics and fans have compared their music to just about everything; there have been calls to even coin a new genre. Blitzen Trapper's Pavement-meets-Southern rock sound, grabs influences from The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Big Star and Frank Zappa while playing in a scene that spawned The Shins, Fleet Foxes and Elliott ...
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Video: Blitzen Trapper - "Black River Killer" New video for one of the highlights of last year's Furr. The very literal video ("Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still wide") has an O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
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“Black River Killer” is by far my favorite track on Blitzen Trapper’s latest album, Furr (our favorite album of 2008). Here’s the video and some mp3’s.Blitzen Trapper – FurrBlitzen Trapper – Gold for BreadVideo: Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer
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MP3: Blitzen Trapper - "Black River Killer" from Furr as well as the Black River Killer EP, which contains six additional songs, previously available as a tour-only CDR that the band has been selling themselves. We posted the video last...
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