As I mentioned last month, AD is again presenting shows in New Orleans on the regular. Up next: Blitzen Trapper and Wye Oak at One Eyed Jacks, Sunday night, October 4th.
We are giving away several pairs of tickets to NOLA based AD readers.  Hit us up in the comments with your name and email address.  [...]

Blitzen Trapper’s Furr has turned out to be one of the year’s strongest albums, and the band is presently on tour supporting it with the Parson Redheads. Aquarium Drunkard is presenting both the hometown date, here in Los Angeles at the Echo, and down south in San Diego at the Casbah. We have some [...]

Ahoy. Just returned to L.A. after a long weekend in Austin for the third annual Fun Fun Fun festivus, and, yes, as expected it was indeed “fun.” The vibe and atmosphere was very low-key compared to many a festival, and of course it all felt very Austin. It was also the last of [...]

Blitzen Trapper is one of a handful of bands that we’ve constantly referred to as refining and exploring classic rock traditions in a new way. AD sat down via phone with Blitzen Trapper front man Eric Earley to discuss their first major-indie release, comparisons to Pavement and Dylan, archaic words, and that special confusion [...]

Blitzen Trapper’s 2007 release, Wild Mountain Nation, was hailed as an ideological heir to Pavement’s Wowee Zowee – all jumbled genre and sprightly chaos. And the same could be said of Furr, their latest, but for completely different reasons. Unlike Pavement’s scattershot vision of American indie-rock, Blitzen Trapper are recalling the genre-melding exercises of Bob [...]