Blitzen Trapper

The story

Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental country/folk/rock band associated with Sub Pop Records, Vagrant Records, Lojinx, and Yep Roc. Formed in 2000, the band currently operates as a quartet, with Eric Earley (guitar/harmonica/vocals/keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums/vocals/harmonica/guitar), Michael Elson (bass/keyboard), and Nathan Vanderpool (guitar/vocals); at some shows, Michael Blake fills in for Vanderpool. Blitzen Trapper self-released its first three albums. "Wild Mountain Nation" was No. 98 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

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Records

• Live at Codfish Hollow 10.19.23 · 2025 · live
• Holy Demos Future Demos · 2021 · demo
• Waking Bullets at Breakneck Speed · 2017 · compilation
• Wild and Reckless (Soundtrack From The Portland Center Stage Production) · 2017 · compilation
• Live at Third Man Records · 2016 · live
• Mystery and Wonder · 2016 · Single · live
• Live Harvest · 2015 · live
• Live in Portland · 2014 · live
• Men and Women on the Road to Nowhere Are Still Destined: Studio Paradiso, San Francisco, CA, USA · 2014 · EP · live
• 2012-03-15: Stage on Sixth, Austin, TX, USA · 2012 · live
• 2012-07-28: Paste Ruins at Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, USA · 2012 · EP · live
• 2008-02-28: Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, USA · 2011 · live
• Sadness, Not a Cur, but a Chum: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA · 2010 · EP · live
• Where the Rifle Casings Lie With Underbrush: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA · 2009 · EP · live
• A Hundred Words for Sins, Stumbles and the Things That Keep You Up at Night and Always Will: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA · 2008 · EP · live
• Wild Is Just the Start, a Utopian Riot: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA · 2008 · EP · live
• Not Just Dressing Up Antiquity in Rags of the Same: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA · 2007 · EP · live

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Members

• Eric Earley
• Brian Adrian Koch
• Drew Laughery
• Marty Marquis
• Erik Menteer
• Michael Van Pelt
• Brian Koch
• Michael VanPelt

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with Blitzen Trapper in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with Blitzen Trapper in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like Blitzen Trapper

• Deer Tick3 sources agree
• The Decemberists3 sources agree
• Dawes3 sources agree
• The Avett Brothers3 sources agree
• M. Ward3 sources agree
• Okkervil River3 sources agree
• Wilco3 sources agree
• Langhorne Slim3 sources agree
• Ryan Adams3 sources agree
• The Head and the Heart2 sources agree
• Fruit Bats2 sources agree
• My Morning Jacket2 sources agree

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of Blitzen Trapper’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.