12 Facts About Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper released its third album, Wild Mountain Nation, in 2007 to much acclaim from critics such as Pitchfork Media, The Nerve, and Spin Magazine.

Band that would come to be known as Blitzen Trapper began life under the name Garmonbozia in the year 2000.

On December 2, 2003, the band returned to radio station KPSU and recorded their first live show under the Blitzen Trapper name, playing songs from their first album and previewing some - including "Leopard's Will to Live" and "40 Stripes" - from their next.

In September 2007, acclaimed indie studio Daytrotter conducted their first interview with Blitzen Trapper and invited the group to perform four acoustic tracks; this was the start of a long relationship between the band and the studio.

In September 2008, Blitzen Trapper released their first record for Sub Pop records, Furr, to near-universal critical acclaim.

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Club called Furr Blitzen Trapper's "most focused album yet" in its A- review, while Pitchfork gave it another 8.

Blitzen Trapper was invited by influential rock band Pavement to play the All Tomorrow's Parties festival on May 15, 2010, an invitation Earley later remembered fondly: "We toured with Stephen Malkmus [of Pavement] and he was a big hero of mine in high school, so that was really fun.

Blitzen Trapper released American Goldwing on September 13, 2011, to mainly positive reviews.

Blitzen Trapper prepared its seventh studio album, with a somewhat new direction.

On October 1, 2013, Blitzen Trapper released their seventh album, appropriately titled VII, on Vagrant Records, their first album with a new label since 2008's Furr.

Rather than release a physical album or an album through media outlets such as iTunes, Blitzen Trapper made Live In Portland downloadable for free, or as a "name your price" download through the website Bandcamp.

Blitzen Trapper's first new recording of 2016 was a song titled "Summer Rain, " released as part of Amazon's "Sounds of Summer" playlist.