Alialujah Choir plays Revolution Hall’s opening show.
Blitzen Trapper
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This Must Be the Place
Blitzen Trapper Reflects on Home
On VII, Blitzen Trapper reflects on home.
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Mumbo Jumbo
Mike Coykendall’s Doll House of Sound
With Chasing Away the Dots, Mike Coykendall has made a doll’s house of sound.
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Country and (Pacific North) Western
Denver Keeps Country Music Pure
Denver keeps country music pure.
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Portland’s Favorite Records of 2011
The Year: Five Records at a Time.
Portland music folks chime in on their top five records of the year.
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Release the (Record) Hounds
Record Store Day Draws Numbers
Record Store Day is like Black Friday for record nerds.
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Declaration of Our Descendants
Blitzen Trapper Destroys the Void, Saves the Day
Blitzen Trapper destroys the void, saves the day.
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Cosmic Frontier Rock
Blitzen Trapper Goes Naked, Wears Furr
Portland band Blitzen Trapper refines their sound and garners national attention.
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Rock of the Nation
Blitzen Trapper’s Sonic Conquest
In a year full of Portland bands breaking through to the national level, no one else captured the hearts—and iPod playlists—of rock fans quite like Blitzen Trapper. Their self-released third album, Wild Mountain Nation, uprooted the band’s sound from its familiar terrain of fragmentary lo-fi and relocated it to a land where breezy folk, blistering […]
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Where Is Here?
Blitzen Trapper’s Portland
We know that Blitzen Trapper calls here home. I say “here” as if I really know what that means. That’s what happens when the help is freelancing from hundreds and hundreds of miles away. Never been to Portland. Never been much west of Colorado, in fact. The Pacific Northwest is a baffler to me. Everything […]