Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental country/folk/rock band associated with Sub Pop Records, Vagrant Records and Lojinx. Formed in 2000, the band currently operates as a quintet, with Eric Earley, Erik Menteer, Brian Adrian Koch, Michael Van Pelt, and Marty Marquis.

Over the course of 20 years and ten full-length albums, Blitzen Trapper has crafted a singular catalog of songs—sometimes wrapped in impressionistic imagery and scruffy, singalong melodies and other times rendered in sharp-focus, needlepoint detail and imbued with driving, electrified rhythms—that celebrate the human experience in all its triumph and tragedy.