Blitzen Trapper drop light-hearted and playful new video for "Dance With Me"; Announce West Coast and European Tour

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Last year, the Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper accomplished a unique feat for a rock band who has been releasing albums and touring for the better part of two decades: a staged musical titled Wild & Reckless that ran for 28 performances at Portland Center Stage.
 
The album Wild & Reckless was born from the stage production that the band spent the better part of a year producing and was released as a companion to their 2008 breakthrough album Furr to much critical acclaim in early December. The half musical, half rock-opera dealt with heroin abuse, desperation, true love and western power structures. The story evoked a bygone era of Portland with this sci-fi love story, featuring a rock-and-roll score that paired unreleased songs with favorites from the band’s catalog. 

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Following the success of the production, the band took 7 original songs from the production and developed the theme further into the 12 songs that comprise the new album Wild & Reckless.
 
Frontman Eric Earley also sees the record as a companion and extention of their 2008 album Furr. "Wild and Reckless” is something like a cross-eyed stepchild to Furr, in that it chronicles the darker dystopian stories of rural and suburban west coast death-drive via a riffing psychedelic landscape. Ten years after Furr with all its talk of murder and the end of the western world, it seems there's more to tell."
 
Blitzen Trapper is Eric Earley (songwriter/singer), Erik Menteer (guitar, keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums, vocals), Michael Van Pelt (bass) and Marty Marquis (keyboard, vocals). Wild & Reckless was produced by Eric Earley and Michael Van Pelt and was recorded by Gregg Williams at The Trench, in Portland, Oregon.  It was mixed by James Brown (Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon, Blitzen Trapper's All Across This Land) at The Union.
 
Wild and Reckless is out now in Europe on British indie label Lojinx. Out on heavyweight vinyl LP, CD & digital. The band will be playing a selection of venues across Europe to promote the release during April 2018.
 
Wild & Reckless tracklist:
 
1) Rebel
2) Wild & Reckless
3) Forever Pt. 1
4) Joanna
5) No Man's Land
6) Stolen Hearts
7) Dance With Me
8) Love Live On
9) When I'm Dying
10) Baby Won't You Turn Me On
11) Forever Pt. 2
12) Wind Don't Always Blow
 
Tour Dates:
February 16th: San Jose, CA - The Ritz 
February 17th: Costa Mesa, CA - The Wayfarer 
February 19th: Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge 
February 20th: Tucson, AZ - Club Congress 
February 22nd: Austin, TX - Antone's 
February 24th: Dallas, TX - Three Links 
February 26th: Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf 
February 27th: Denver, CO - The Bluebird Theater 
February 28th: Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep 
March 1st: Fort Collins, CO - Washington's 
March 2nd: Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room 
March 3rd: Park City, UT - O.P. Rockwell 
April 4th: Middelkerke, Belgium - De Zwerver 
April 5th: Amersfoort, Netherlands - Flour 
April 6th: Haarlem, Netherlands - Roots of Heaven 
April 7th: Hengelo, Netherlands - Heartland Festival 
April 8th: Venlo, Netherlands - Down By The River 
April 9th: Bristol, United Kingdom - The Fleece 
April 10th: Glasgow, United Kingdom - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow 
April 11th: Leeds, United Kingdom - Brudenell Social Club 
April 12th: London, United Kingdom - Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen 
April 14th: Genk, Belgium - Little Waves 
April 15th: Groningen, Netherlands - De Oosterpoort 
April 16th: Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang 
April 17th: Kristianstad, Sweden - Kulturkvarteret 
April 18th: Oslo, Norway - John Dee 
April 20th: Stockholm, Sweden - Bryggarsalen 
April 21st: Göteborg, Sweden - Pustervik 
April 22nd: Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen 
April 23rd: Berlin, Germany - Lido 
April 24th: Leipzig, Germany - Conne Island 
April 25th: Schorndorf, Germany - Club Manufaktur 
April 27th: Carpi, Italy - Mattatoio 
April 29th: Barcelona, Spain - La Nau 
April 30th: Valencia, Spain - Loco Club 
May 1st: Madrid, Spain - El Sol 
 
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