Blitzen Trapper live in concert.
ON TOUR

Blitzen Trapper

58
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

76
%
Based on 
58
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 58 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Blitzen Trapper is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. Blitzen Trapper concert reviews describe live shows and performances as thrilling, boisterous, spacey, and cohesive.

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Latest Release

Proud Mary (Instrumental) (September 7, 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Portland, United States (2000 - present) (2000 – present)
Bio
Blitzen Trapper is an experimental rock/folk sextet which formed in Portland, Oregon, United States in 2000. The band consists of Eric Earley (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Erik Menteer (guitar, keyboards), Marty Marquis (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Michael Van Pelt (bass), Drew Laughery (keyboards) and Brian Koch (drums, vocals).
Has Performed With
The Moondoggies, Fruit Bats, Dawes

Critic Concert Reviews

Spectrum Culture (USA)

November 19, 2018
%
Furr is a thrilling trip through the minds of a band still interested in being, in their own words, wild and reckless.

mxdwn.com (USA)

November 16, 2018
%
Blitzen Trapper Live at the Lodge Room, Los Angeles

We All Want Someone To Shout For (USA)

October 22, 2018
%
Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 2, 2018

Exclaim (Canada)

September 29, 2018
80
%
27 Club, Ottawa on September 28, 2018

East of 8th (USA)

November 30, 2017
%
Blitzen Trapper at the Exit/In last Sunday was no exception—the venue packed with true fans and lovers of music, the band feeding off the crowd’s energy.

Country Standard Time (USA)

November 7, 2017
%
While they may not have an especially high profile, that may be due more to the vagaries of the music business than a lack of effort and chops.

Country Standard Time (USA)

September 27, 2016
%
Given that Blitzen Trapper's most recent release, All Across This Land, came out almost exactly one year ago with the band having played the same exact venue a few weeks later, the band had to do something a little different this time around.

Past critic reviews published in

GIGsoup (UK), Louder Than War (UK), Willamette Week (USA), The Santa Barbara Independent (USA), The Know (Denver Post) (USA) and more

Image Credit

Matt Janicki [CC BY-2.0] via Wikimedia Commons