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Blitzen Trapper hails from Portland and as of this very moment has one of the most bad-ass band logos I’ve ever seen.  Get a good look at it on the cover to their latest LP Furr.

Here’s the most excellent track “Gold for Bread” off that album.  Go buy it on Sub Pop.  (I feel extra compelled to support Sub Pop after going to the EMP in Seattle)

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Eastbound & Down is pure comedy gold.  It’s a new series on HBO starring Danny McBride (Pineapple Express, The Foot Fist Way) and Will Ferrell’s an executive producer.  If you click through to that link and watch the preview video it looks like he’s also acting in the series.

I just grabbed a rough cut of the pilot episode by torrent and it is FUCKING FUNNY.  Everybody needs to PVR this shit immediately – looks like it’s coming out in February. This alone might be reason enough for me to finally bow down to (i.e. bend down in front of) the cable company and subscribe to HBO.

Maximum bonus points for using Freddy King’s “Going Down” for the show’s opening… in the pilot I saw at least.  I’m so pumped about this track that I’m going to include it here for your listening pleasure.  Possibly the most bad-ass Freddy tune ever recorded.

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This track will be queued up on the iPod (if I’m paying attention) as we hit Portland en route to San Francisco next week on our road trip.  It’s a duet with Jack White from her 2004 album Van Lear Rose.  White produced and played on the album and it features 2/3 of the Greenhornes supplying the bottom end.  Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence also happen to be the rhythm section for White’s other (and much more famous) band The Raconteurs but I gotta give props to the Greenhornes when I can.  Dual Mono is one of my desert island discs.

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