The most important part of this post is this: on Monday, July 11th, somebody stole a couple guitars, amp heads, a shitty keyboard, clothes, and some other little stuff from Blitzen Trapper’s van right off twentysomthing and NE Alberta. What’s worse, this happened on their home turf, Portland, during a one-day stop over in the midst of their first ever West Coast tour. If you hear of anyone hawking or recently having come into posession a collection of gear resembling this one please email me. I should have more specific info like brand names, models, etc pretty soon, in the meantime just please report anything that sounds like a possible match. I know it’s a long shot but you never know, right?

THAT SAID: WTF?!?!?!? What is it with Portland stealing gear from Portland bands? This same thing has happened to the Decemberists right after they got back from a much larger tour AND Brian from Nudge and other people who I don’t remember. These bands play all over the country and don’t have problems – why does it always seem to be here where this stuff happens? Effed up if you ask me.

Speaking of me, I’m back from my brief tour spell and knee-deep in booking this festival (which is shaping up to be pretty amazing). We ended up not getting a show to replace that Bellingham show, instead ended up getting irie in a gem shop, wandering aimlessly around Olympia, playing happy hour ping pong, doing tai chi by the harbor, asking every shitty bar in town if they needed a band for the night. They didn’t, so we went and saw Millions at the Capitol Theater (pretty cool, pretty cheese).

The shows themselves were fun and the band is sounding awesome. I urge anyone reading this to go see them on the rest of the tour. The KEXP in-studio dealy was rad and I got to meet the incredibly nice ladies who call themselves Three Imaginary Girls. They were in the studio playing some records, including PDX locals the Binary Dolls, which is super cool in my book. I always thought the name Three Imaginary Girls was a reference to their publication solely existing on the internet (hence “imaginary”) but turns out it’s a Cure song. I said as much and lost 5 million rock points right then and there.