New tour dates, a Record Store Day Exclusive, and a new video

Spring has finally started to arrive in Portland, and with it we have tons of news to bring you - first, we’ve added all sorts of new shows for this summer across the United States and Canada. These include a trek across the Midwest and back through the familiar stomping grounds of California; supporting Wilco for a stretch across the mountain states and Minnesota; heading off on a series of headline dates across the country; then finally meeting up with Wilco again for a special Friday night show at the venerable Newport Folk Festival. Check the full dates here to find out more and get tickets. If, tragically, you don’t see your hometown on the list, don’t fear - there will be many more dates announced to close out 2012 in the next couple months.

In the immediate future, we have a sweet special edition exclusive 7” vinyl release coming out for Record Store Day - which is tomorrow! This release is limited to 1800 copies and was pressed on yellow vinyl. One side has a special Trapper twist on the classic “Hey Joe” while the other has a previously unreleased BT original, “Skirts on Fire.” Check out the list of participating stores and pick up your copy.

In addition, our good friend Luke Norby and drummer Brian Adrian Koch, composed a gorgeous video for American Goldwing track “Stranger In A Strange Land,” which you can see above. It features landscapes found in Nome, Alaska, where there are no indigenous trees or mountains within plain sight, interspersing footage of the Iditarod finish line, the Bering Sea, and singer Eric Earley with shivery hand-held pans in 20 below zero conditions. Lastly, thank you to everyone who made it out to shows in March & April. If you weren’t there, we played all sorts of shows and sessions at SXSW that you can still check out. You can see an exclusive performances of “Fletcher” & “American Goldwing,” as well as an entire set at the Hype Hotel. We will see you soon!

Our 12th anniversary as a band. Come out and celebrate with us. Get your tickets here.

The Lost Last Leg Episode 6 from our Fall 2011 tour has been found! And it’s a bruiser. Check it out above - and the rest of last year’s video diary entries on our YouTube channel here (plus, there is other fun video stuff there).

We are, of course, about to hit the road again, our our way to the inimitable zoo that is SXSW, with stops in CA, AZ, NM and a bunch of ski towns. Tour dates are here. And starting April 1, we will cavort about the enchanting island-continent of Australia, communing with marsupials and dingos, and bringing along our tunes to the people of Oz. Those dates are here too.

We hope to see all your pretty faces out there on the road this spring!

Goods news! From the depths of winter, we’re able to start releasing news about touring plans for the coming months - and we hope to see all of you out there. Starting in early March, we’re going to spend a month crossing the Western half of the country with our good friends the Parson Redheads, including a very eventful stop by SXSW in Austin (for the first time since 2009!), before making our way back to Portland. Tickets for these shows are all on-sale now. Click here for a complete list of dates and tickets. If you don’t see your hometown on the schedule, fear not - there will be many more show announcements to come in 2012.

In the meantime, we have a couple items to tide you over through these cold months. First, here is a free download of our new single “Might Find It Cheap” and a great track from the Parson Redheads, called “Burning Up The Sky.” Second, our new video for American Goldwing track “Takin’ It Easy Too Long” premiered on Paste earlier today. This video was directed by our very own drummer, Mr. Brian Adrian Koch. Check it out!

See you soon,

BT

Might Find It Cheap

Our newest video, an amalgam of a host of shots from our last tour - Portland, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Pioneer Town, Washington D.C. - and other places that we can’t even remember now. Hope you enjoy - and go get yourself a free download of the song right here.

Happy Holidays all y'all - thanks for making this another fantastic year. We love yous…

Our Late Show perfomance on December 8, 2011.

Greetings from New York City! So many things to share, but to start, we are debuting our new single “Might Find It Cheap” TONIGHT on The Late Show with David Letterman. Tune in at 11:35 PM (10:35 central) to CBS to see the performance! To celebrate we have a special gift for all of you - a free download of “Might Find It Cheap.” Get it below!

Episode five is alive! We are heading to Pioneer Town for one last show in California…

Episode 4 of the tour video blog!