Cool Love #1 7" available now!

For your enjoyment in the New Year, pick up a copy of the limited edition, Nation-era 7" vinyl “Cool Love #1”. A few heavy-hitting outtakes and the fabled live version of Jericho on the B-side. Analog ear candy…

"Christmas is Coming Soon" download here!

We wanted to give all of you a little something this holiday season: Our buddies at Birds Sometimes Dance, a Norwegian blog, put together a free Yuletide compilation featuring the old BT tune “Christmas is Coming Soon” among some great others. Scroll down to “Last ned!” to download the .zip file.

We also want to thank all of our amazing fans: those who came to our shows, who bought our music, who wrote us sweet emails, who covered our songs, who baked us cookies, and those who generally spread the BT love all around. You all are the best and we couldn’t do it without you.

Our best wishes to errbody - and we’ll come rock you in the New Year!!!

much much love,

- the Trappers

Super-duper stoked to do our 5th(!) Daytrotter session. Here it is - hope you dig it and special shout outs to Sean and the whole Quad City crew.

Hey all! We’ve got a few exciting dates with the legendary Guided By Voices coming up on the East Coast before we head to Old Europe to support our new single “The Tree”. We will be playing a slew of club dates and a couple of festivals before we call it quits for the year and hibernate a bit. We would love to see your shining faces in the crowd!

- mike

Hey All! As we prep for our upcoming tour dates and languish in the fading summer sun, we want to bring you a sweet-ass remix of Dragon’s Song! It’s a total rethinking of the song by Portland wunderkind Michael Bruce, replete with a summery Reggaeton feel to help you eek the most out of these weeks before the leaves change. Download it, share it and check out Michael Bruce’s bandcamp page - dude is tha bomb!

Hope you are getting your back-to-school fashions pressed and in order, you’re trapper keepers full of wizard and pegasus 3-ring tab dividers, and you’re calendars open for when we hit your town!

Much love,

M.Trapper

And here’s the full crew doing “Sadie” for WFUV’s The Alternate Side.

Here’s Marty, Brian, and Eric performing a stripped-down version of “Below The Hurricane” for Explore Music.

NPR is streaming our set at Newport Folk Fest for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy!

Video: Dragon's Song on Fallon

Here’s video from last week’s “Dragon’s Song” performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. You can also watch the whole episode here. Enjoy!

(via The Audio Perv)

Win a spot in the audience at BT's Fallon gig

On June 17^th, the Trapper will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and if you happen to live in the New York area, you’ve got an opportunity to be right there in the audience for it – possibly even on camera!  See, there’s this special reserved area called the Band Bench, right behind the band and just for mega-fans, and Fallon is giving away spots on said bench.  Just go here and enter your info, and make sure to include the band code BTZ.  If all goes well, you’ll be within smelling distance of six very talented guys whilst they perform live for you and an audience of millions.  Or to put it visually:

Good luck!

- Matt