In this week's Mic Check, we spoke to Blitzen Trapper frontman Eric Earley about his band's 10th anniversary. Here's the extended version of that conversation. Willamette Week: You guys are coming up ...

Blitzen Trapper rose to prominence in 2007 with the release of their third record, Wild Mountain Nation, and signing with Sub Pop. Since then, the band has put out a new album every year, thus ...

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Blitzen Trapper’s music has always drawn characters into the spotlight from the margins of American life. For the better part of two decades, the band’s songs have been populated with rebellious ...

Prior to dropping their peerless fourth album, Furr, Blitzen Trapper were mostly known as a scrappy freak folk band from the Pacific Northwest with an eccentric appeal that could land them coverage in ...

“I don’t know; we were just bored and had nothing to do, so we figured we’d just play some music.” These are the words of Eric Earley, singer/songwriter for Portland, Ore.’s Blitzen Trapper, and they ...

Blitzen Trapper front man Eric Earley waxes nostalgic on occasion about time spent homeless on the streets of Portland, Ore. Sleeping by the river … hiding knives ...