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  Dawes and Blitzen Trapper Play Classic Rock for Classic Town

  October 11, 2011 – For a pair of bands that embrace the down-home and rootsy, Dawes and Blitzen Trapper couldn't have chosen a better place to kick off a six-week co-headlining tour than Petaluma, California. …
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  Blitzen Trapper, 'American Goldwing' (Sub Pop)

  September 13, 2011 – Blitzen Trapper's Eric Earley performs the amazing feat of making alt-country seem fresh on the band's gripping sixth album. This Portland, Oregon quintet has long excelled at energizing rootsy sounds with trashy noise, but Earley's true trump card is smart, vivid songwriting that transcends genres. …
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  Hear Heartbreaking Blitzen Trapper Tune

  August 10, 2011 – Portland, OR, folkies Blitzen Trapper have released the second song from their upcoming album, American Goldwing (out Sept. 13). Hear "Love the Way You Walk Away" below. Set to a country-folk gallop with slide guitar and banjo, frontman Eric Earley tells the tale of a down and out guy who sleeps in a beat-up sedan down by the river and drunkenly asks the stars why he's losing his girl. …
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  DOWNLOAD: First New Blitzen Trapper Song!

  July 8, 2011 – On September 13, Portland, OR's experimental folk rockers Blitzen Trapper will release their sixth full-length studio album, American Goldwing, via Sub Pop -- and now the first taste of the LP has made its way online. …
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  FREE ALBUM! SPIN's Picks for Bonnaroo 2010

  June 5, 2010 – June 10-13 brings us Bonnaroo, the annual celebration of music in the Tennessee countryside, attended by some 80,000 fans. …
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• Blitzen Trapper, 'Destroyer of the Void' (Sup Pop)

  May 24, 2010 – It takes guts to open a record with a six-minute song that splits the difference between the soft prog of ELO and the folk pop of America, but this Portland troupe make it work. For the rest of their fifth album, they hew to a similar early-'70s aura -- nodding to a time when spacey keyboard effects and alt-country dust carried serious cachet. …
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  How They Became... Blitzen Trapper

  May 10, 2010 – Welcome to the weekly SPIN.com feature "Name That Band!" in which we get the inside stories behind the mysterious monikers of some of our favorite artists. (See past episodes of Name That Band! here.) This week: Blitzen Trapper, whose new album, Destroyer of the Void, drops on June 8. Why Blitzen Trapper: "It all goes back to the girlfriend I had in Salem, Oregon, in the 7th grade," says singer-guitarist Eric Earley. …
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  Watch: Blitzen Trapper's Country-Western Epic

  July 8, 2009 – The boys in Portland, OR, band Blitzen Trapper may seem like the slacker-type with their tattered rags and aloof 'tudes, but these dudes are downright ambitious -- just check out their new music video, a Country-Western epic about an outlaw killer, complete with elaborate costumes and sets that move from open desert to a Jerry Springer-style talk show! The video is for "Black River Killer," a country ditty off the group's latest album, …
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  New Albums from TV on the Radio, Kings of Leon, and 6 More

  September 23, 2008 – Here's a rundown of the albums available online and in record stores today: TV on the Radio, Dear ScienceRock's most visionary crew create a masterful future tableau. (READ REVIEW) Kings of Leon, Only by the NightSwaggering Tennessee boys find mad love on the moonlit road. (READ REVIEW) Cold War Kids, Loyalty to LoyaltyFormer blog darlings crank up the cranky complaints. …
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  Blitzen Trapper Live at Bumbershoot

  September 4, 2008 – Considering Bumbershoot's ever-expanding, eclectic lineup -- not to mention other local oddities like the Green River Killer, the Sasquatch, and the Aurora Bridge's Troll -- Seattleites are certainly accustomed to a little weirdness. …
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