
Through non-stop touring over the last two years and a pair of very strong albums (their latest, Furr , on Sub Pop), Portland's Blitzen Trapper is accumulating a critical amount of deserved buzz behind their music. Straddling genres of expansively golden CSNY rock, the wide-open folk underpinnings of the wilderness, and the squalling rock of fellow Portlanders Pavement, their music delights simply in its unpredictability. I sat down with half of the band when they were in Denver a few weeks ago, playing a very sold-out [...]