I tracked down Blitzen Trapper and the idea was to interview them. What actually ensued could, I suppose, be called an interview…these guys are hilarious and a breath of fresh air in the music scene. In this video you will hear the boys talk about Sasquatch, Yakima, the Blitzen Bat Cave, The Hold Steady and a Seattle-based record label. Then they discuss their superpowers, how the length of a tour should be determined by how long one’s beard becomes and how they had to sell their tambourine player on the way to SXSW. Finally they discuss Holocene’s diseased, cancerous lung…you’ll have to watch and listen…oh and yes, they wrestle me to the ground….click the image to play.
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Wrestling!…come on that wasnt wrestling! I was expecting some fine greco-roman shit next to that lady who was in the background.
July 10th, 2007 at 6:16 amI forgot the oil…..
July 10th, 2007 at 12:08 pmBlitzen Trapper are probably the best band out of POrtland right now….
July 11th, 2007 at 10:21 pmso sub pop it is, congrats to the Trapper’s Its interesting how Portland doesnt really have a sub pop. Why is that exactly? I wonder how sub pop is doing in this current state of the music industry?
July 12th, 2007 at 9:40 amdid you hear that it was Sub Pop? That was the inference but it wasn’t confirmed to me….
July 12th, 2007 at 10:38 amTHIS IS GOD AND IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED!
July 12th, 2007 at 11:47 am[...] I guess it’s all in a week’s work when you’re repping for the Wild Mountain Nation. Blitzen Trapper has been dropping Dave Allen and, as Mr. Allen reports briefly on his Pampelmoose blog, picking up a shiny new contract with the mother of all Northwest indie labels, Sub Pop. I should mention that I haven’t actually seen the clip yet (something about codecs and Macintosh and…DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS!), but it appears that the band tackles the Portland music figure/Gang of Four’er at the end of their video interview (let me know, would you, while I smash my laptop?). [...]
July 12th, 2007 at 4:42 pm“Its interesting how Portland doesnt really have a sub pop. Why is that exactly?”
I’m wondering why we want “a sub pop.” Do you honestly think Seattle has “a sub pop” anymore?
If you’re referring to Sub Pop of yore, then I’d reply that we do indeed have one, nay, several (I suppose excepting that they specialize in music, not fashion). If you’re looking for Sub Pop of current, it may just take Warner (or one of the other majors) to buy out a Portland label and wave it around as their indie-music flag…or second flag in Warner’s case.
July 13th, 2007 at 7:04 pmI believe that today’s Sub Pop is merely a brand name, not the company is was pre the Warner deal. The owners got while the going was good back in the early 90′s, pocketed their money and left the label to float along for a while with the corporate folks at the helm. Things have changed now and there have been some cool bands released by Sub Pop but nowhere near the pace at its height when it was synonymous with the words “grunge”, “flannel” and “Seattle”. With Portland all grown up and having more cool bands per square foot than Seattle the last thing we need in town is a Sub Pop.
July 14th, 2007 at 8:10 am