This Weeks Shows!

I am going to be brief but there are some really good shows this week if you are able to catch them.

For those who aren't put off by him yet, Ryan Adams is sure to bring his swagger to his show Tuesday, July 31st at Red Butte. Don't really know where you can get information on this one but it may be worth searching out.

Blitzen Trapper is bringing their brand of schizo-americana to Kilby Court on either Wednesday, August 1st (on Pollstar and the band's Myspace) or Friday, August 3rd (on 24tix and Kilby Court's website). Try both nights, it will be worth your efforts.
As for free shows, Peter, Bjorn and John along with Apostle of Hustle will be part of the Twilight Concert Series at Gallivan Center on Thusday, August 2nd.

Lastly, local alt-country band Atherton are having a CD release show along side Paul Jacobsen at the U of U on Friday, August 3rd.

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Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation

Blitzen Trapper
Wild Mountain Nation
(2007, Lidkercow Ltd.)
8.0/10

Coming out of relative obscurity, Blitzen Trapper have created a schizophrenic tapestry of everything from blazing 70’s Americana to 90’s lo-fi indie. Wild Mountain Nation is Blitzen Trapper’s identity crisis, but somehow they seem comfortable with that fact. Spawning comparisons that span from CCR and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to Pavement and Sebadoah, to My Morning Jacket or Band of Horses, Blitzen Trapper have compiled there influences into their own unique voice. Even with it's ADHD tendencies, Wild Mountain Nation scores high with each track creating the most perfect mixtape of blistering lo-fi rock and Americana that you will find anywhere. The Portland band seems to know when to reel in their spastic nature, though, and say “enough” before anyone starts to get annoyed. Clocking in at just over a half hour in 13 songs, Wild Mountain Nation will excite without testing your patience. Overall it is a great mess of an album containing some of the best songs put to tape so far this year.

-Mr. Thistle

Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation