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After OKX, our 10-year cover tribute to the Radiohead classic OK Computer, we soon began narrowing the list of prospects for our next celebratory project: sifting, sorting, debating, etc. But when we…   Read Story »

Blitzen Trapper On "Star Me Kitten" "R.E.M. were a huge part of my adolescence. Green was the first cassette I ever bought with my own money. When Automatic came out, I remember being intrigued by…   Read Story »

Although we're holding off on giving any album with an Of Montreal song called "I Just Wanna Have Fun" a G-rating, the rest of the For The Kids Vol. III comp that made headlines last week seems more…   Read Story »

As if Kidz Bop, Pastor Of Muppets, and those half a dozen indie Jr. comps from All Together Now to Play weren't enough, the third volume of For The Kids hits the shelves in a couple months. Some…   Read Story »

Portland's Blitzen Trapper have been self-releasing music on their Lidkercow Ltd label since 2003, but it wasn't until their third full-length, this year's Wild Mountain Nation, that their madcap,…   Read Story »

The synth-and-jangle "Sci-Fi Kid," from the ever-killer Wild Mountain Nation, gets straight club-kid raver treatment here on remix Tuesday, with Principal Participant building a different sort of…   Read Story »

The cool thing to do with vids these days is drive your viewers to seizure (see: M.I.A.), so pop your anticonvulsant drugs and press play on Portland genre-bending outfit Blitzen Trapper's clip for…   Read Story »

Last thing we heard from Portland's left-field kitchen-sink country rockers Blitzen Trapper, they gave Heart's "Crazy On You" a Kevin Barnes-styled makeover. But now we get to talk up the band's…   Read Story »

Another cover for your dreary Friday. This one comes from the sonic alchemists of Blitzen Trapper, who generally enjoy taking country conceit and twisting its corners with whatever accoutrements they…   Read Story »