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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Continuing their Record Store Day tradition of uncovering material in small batch, Oregon’s Blitzen Trapper are releasing a collection of songs filed away for nearly 20 years. Unreleased Recordings ...

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 ...

As the vibration of cicadas began echoing along the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina, last week, the Americana/indie sounds of Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters began to join in.

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 ...

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 ...