Jeffrey Lewis (born November 20, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and comic book artist.
Early life
Lewis was born in New York City and grew up on the
Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets.
Traditionally an im ...
.
He attended
State University of New York at Purchase
The State University of New York at Purchase (commonly Purchase College or SUNY Purchase) is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It was fo ...
, graduating in 1997 with a degree in Literature. His Senior Literary Thesis was on the comic book ''
Watchmen
''Watchmen'' is an American comic book Limited series (comics), maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins (comics), John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 a ...
''.
Lewis also lectured on the topic of ''Watchmen'' at the Institute For Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2000, and the text of his lecture ("The Dual Nature of Apocalypse in Watchmen") was published in the book ''The Graphic Novel'', edited by Jan Baetens, in 2001.
Starting in 2000, he spent about two years living in
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co ...
, playing
open mic
An open mic or open mike (shortened from "open microphone") is a live show at a venue such as a coffeehouse, nightclub, comedy club, strip club, or pub, usually taking place at night, in which audience members may perform on stage whether the ...
nights, working odd jobs and distributing his autobiographical comics to local coffee shops.
Music
Several of his musical influences have been acknowledged in his songs such as "Williamsburg
Will Oldham
Joseph Will Oldham (born January 15, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Flophouse, Palace Br ...
Horror", "The History of
The Fall" and "The
Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song", concerning the song by
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...
. Lewis' lyrics are complex and literate, often combining a nihilistic world-view with a hopeful message and sharp wit. Growing up on the
Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets.
Traditionally an im ...
of
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
, his songs are also highly informed by his home surroundings, with songs name-dropping places such as
Williamsburg, the
FDR Drive and the
East River
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens ...
.
Lewis is often regarded as part of the
antifolk
Anti-folk (sometimes referred to as unfolk) is a music genre that emerged in the 1980s in response to the remnants of the 1960s folk music scene. Anti-folk music was made to mock the perceived seriousness of the time's mainstream music scene, a ...
movement, foremost because he was one of the many bands and performers (including
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches were an American indie group founded by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson. Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004. The appearance of their song "Anyone Else but You" in the film '' Juno'' ...
,
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song "Anyone El ...
,
Diane Cluck
Diane Cluck is an American singer-songwriter. She describes her music as "intuitive folk". She currently resides in Virginia.
Early life
Cluck was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She began taking piano lessons at the age of 7, and was classi ...
,
Regina Spektor
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (russian: Регинa Ильинична Спектор, ; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian–born American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in ...
,
Major Matt Mason USA
Major Matt Mason USA is the recording project of Matt Roth, an American musician and record producer active in the anti-folk and DIY music scene of New York's East Village.(May 28, 2004). "Matt at front of 'anti-folk'", ''Coventry Evening Teleg ...
and
Lach) who played in the 1990s at New York's
SideWalk Cafe
The SideWalk Cafe was a music venue and restaurant/cafe in East Village, New York City founded in 1985. It became a known venue for its underground music scene, and in particular, was known as being the center for Anti-folk in the United Stat ...
and its biannual antifolk festivals and
open mic
An open mic or open mike (shortened from "open microphone") is a live show at a venue such as a coffeehouse, nightclub, comedy club, strip club, or pub, usually taking place at night, in which audience members may perform on stage whether the ...
events. His music also possesses certain traits of a perceived antifolk style – a downbeat self-deprecating humor, an off-kilter singing style, a mixture of acoustic and 'punk' songs which feature themes of everyday occurrences and feelings. Lewis himself does not mind the 'antifolk' tag: "I think it's a cool title. The fact that no one knows what it means, including me, makes it kind of mysterious and more interesting than saying that you're a singer/songwriter or that you play indie rock."
After being signed by the British record label
Rough Trade in 2001, Jeffrey Lewis released his first official album ''
The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane
''The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favorites'' is the first album by anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis. It was released on CD in 2001 on Rough Trade Records and on vinyl in 2012 on Don Giovanni Records
Don Giovanni Records is an ...
''. Also that year (in February), Lewis was visited by
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song "Anyone El ...
while living in
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co ...
. Over the week she stayed there, they wrote five songs. These songs were later re-recorded with a full band and released by K Records under the moniker "
The Bundles
The Bundles were an anti-folk music group formed in 2001 by Jeffrey Lewis and The Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson. Their members included, in addition to Lewis and Dawson, Lewis' brother Jack, Brooklyn-based drummer Anders Griffen, and indie rock musi ...
," on an album of the same name, in 2010.
In 2003 Rough Trade released the album ''
It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through,'' credited to Jeffrey Lewis with Jack Lewis and drummer
Anders Griffen
Anders Griffen is a drummer, composer, and trumpet player from Brooklyn, New York. Griffen works in a range of contexts including folk, jazz, pop, improvised music, and modern dance theater.
Career
Griffen is known for his work with songwriters a ...
. His third Rough Trade record, ''
City and Eastern Songs
''City and Eastern Songs'' is the third album by anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis, though is credited to Jeffrey & Jack Lewis, Jeffrey's brother. Though Jack Lewis had contributed vocals, bass and songwriting to Jeffrey's two previous albums, th ...
'', was released in the UK in November 2005 and in the US in September 2006. Most of Lewis's albums also include his brother,
Jack Lewis, who wrote or co-wrote and sang and played bass on a number of the songs. In October 2007, Rough Trade released ''
12 Crass Songs'', a Jeffrey Lewis album consisting entirely of songs written by the British punk band
Crass
Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk s ...
, reworked to match Lewis's antifolk style.
He has also performed and collaborated with
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song "Anyone El ...
of
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches were an American indie group founded by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson. Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004. The appearance of their song "Anyone Else but You" in the film '' Juno'' ...
as well as
Diane Cluck
Diane Cluck is an American singer-songwriter. She describes her music as "intuitive folk". She currently resides in Virginia.
Early life
Cluck was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She began taking piano lessons at the age of 7, and was classi ...
. Some of his hand-drawn comics appear in the cover art of his CD releases.
In June 2008 Jeffrey Lewis with his brother Jack were the support act for
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks in Europe. Other well-known acts that Lewis has performed shows or whole tours with include
The Presidents of the United States of America,
Devendra Banhart,
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following P ...
,
Black Dice
Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, New York and consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but subse ...
,
Adam Green,
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moo ...
,
R. Stevie Moore
Robert Steven Moore (born January 18, 1952) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who pioneered lo-fi (or "DIY") music. Often called the "godfather of home recording", he is one of the most recognized artists of the cas ...
,
the Fall,
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song "Anyone El ...
,
Beth Orton
Elizabeth Caroline Orton (born 14 December 1970) is an English musician, known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit, Andrew Weatherall, ...
,
Frank Black
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. F ...
,
the Fiery Furnaces
The Fiery Furnaces are an American indie rock band, formed in 2000 in Brooklyn, New York.. - ''In 2000 they moved Brooklyn... and began playing as the Fiery Furnaces late in the year''. - Allmusic The band's primary members are Matthew and Eleanor ...
,
Daniel Johnston
Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded a ...
,
Scout Niblett
Emma Louise Niblett (born 29 September 1973), better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Niblett debuted in 2001 with her first full-length studio album '' Sweet Heart Fever'', and ...
,
the Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats are an American band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite the ...
,
Dr. Dog
Dr. Dog is an American rock band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its lineup consists of Toby Leaman (bass guitar), Scott McMicken (lead guitar), Frank McElroy ( rhythm guitar), Zach Miller (keyboard), Eric Slick ( drums), an ...
,
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches were an American indie group founded by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson. Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004. The appearance of their song "Anyone Else but You" in the film '' Juno'' ...
,
Cornershop
Cornershop are a British indie rock band best known for their single "Brimful of Asha", originally released in 1997 and, in a remixed version, topping the UK chart in 1998. The band was formed in 1991 by Wolverhampton-born Tjinder Singh (singe ...
,
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players were an American indie-rock/art pop family band. It consisted of main vocalist Jason Trachtenburg, his wife Tina, and their only child, Rachel.
Overview
The band's members consisted of father, Jason T ...
,
Wooden Wand
Wooden Wand is the stage name of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. The style of music recorded by Toth and his many incarnations has drawn on a variety of both conventional and ex ...
,
the Cribs
The Cribs are a British indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, that formed in 2001. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths guit ...
,
Danielson
Danielson is an American rock band from Clarksboro, New Jersey, that plays indie pop gospel music. The group consists of frontman Daniel Smith and a number of various artists with whom he collaborates. Smith has also released solo work as Br ...
,
Herman Dune
Herman Dune is a Swedish-French act based in San Pedro, Los Angeles. The band has been described as Indie rock, Anti-folk, Folk rock, Alternative rock, Americana, and Alternative country.
History
Herman Dune was established as a trio with brot ...
,
Los Campesinos,
Roky Erickson, and
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff in 1993. For the duration of their professional career, the band consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass guitar), Cian Ciaran ...
.
''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' has published his writings and graphic works.
''The New York Times'' online Op-Ed page "Measure For Measure" hired Jeffrey Lewis to write a number of short essays on the topic of songwriting, some of which he drew in comic book form. All went up on ''The New York Times'' website at intervals from 2008 to 2013.
Lewis has created a number of illustrated historical songs, usually sung while flipping through accompanying books of color drawings, including ten such pieces which are in use by
The History Channel
History (formerly The History Channel from January 1, 1995 to February 15, 2008, stylized as HISTORY) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney ...
on their website.
In November 2011 ''The New York Times'' ran a feature article on Jeffrey Lewis in the Arts section of November 23, written by
Ben Sisario
Ben Sisario is an American academic, author, and journalist.
Career
He is a staff reporter for ''The New York Times'', covering music and culture. Sisario is also the author of ''Doolittle'' (2006) a non-fiction book in the 33⅓ series about t ...
.
Lewis published a comic strip in ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'' newspaper in London. It was entitled "What Would Pussy Riot Do?" and it was printed on the occasion of a new release of a single with the same title.
In a January 2018 "MusicMakers" interview with
Adafruit
Adafruit Industries is an open-source hardware company based in New York City. It was founded by Limor Fried in 2005. The company designs, manufactures and sells a number of electronics products, electronics components, tools and accessories. It ...
, Lewis announced he was working on numerous new projects, including "Writing a new issue of my comic book series, mastering an album I recorded of covers of
Tuli Kupferberg
Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg (September 28, 1923 – July 12, 2010) was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, publisher, and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs.
Biography
Naphtali Kupferberg was born into a Jewish, Yi ...
songs, mixing an album I recorded in collaboration with
Peter Stampfel
Peter Stampfel (born October 29, 1938, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter.
Stampfel is best known as a member of the Holy Modal Rounders, a psychedelic folk band that he founded with ...
, and working on writing and recording new songs with my band for my own next album. Remastering and repackaging my old 2005 album “City & Eastern Songs" for a deluxe vinyl re-issue."
Artwork and writing
![Jeffrey Lewis Rough Trade East 2011 (6231844461)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Jeffrey_Lewis_Rough_Trade_East_2011_%286231844461%29.jpg)
Jeffrey has his own comic book series titled ''Fuff'' (formerly called ''Guff''). The series ended in 2020 with issue 12. In 2021 the ''Complete Fuff Comix Collection'' was released, a bundle of all 13 issues with an exclusive dust jacket and 3 page bonus comic.
In March 2009, he designed the cover to the sixth issue of ''
Bearded'' magazine.
Comics
*''Reflections on Tomorrow thus a yesterday Flower Shall Doom'' (1998)
*''The Worldwide Comix Scavenger Hunt vol 1'' (1998–2003)
*''Reflections #2'' (1998–2003)
*''Trip to Key West'' (1999)
*''1999 European Travel Diary'' (1999)
*''Jeff's Austin Diary'' (2001)
*''Come to My Show'' (2004) (reissued as "Fuff # 0" in 2011)
*''Guff # 1'' (2004) (reissued as "Fuff # 1" in 2005)
*''Guff # 2'' (2005) (reissued as "Fuff # 2" in 2008)
*''Guff # 3'' (2005) (reissued as "Fuff # 3 in 2008)
*''Fuff # 4'' (2006)
*''Fuff # 5'' (2006)
*''Fuff # 6'' (2007)
*''Fuff # 7'' (2008)
*''Fuff # 8'' (2010)
*''Fuff # 9'' (2014)
*''Fuff # 10'' (2014)
*''Fuff # 11'' (2016)
*''Fuff # 12'' (2020)
*''Complete Fuff Comix Collection'' (2021)
*''The Art of Touring'' (2007) (A compilation book featuring a comic story that also appears in Fuff # 6)
*Comic book press kit for Mountain Goats' album ''
Heretic Pride'' (2008)
*The chapter "Tuli Kupferberg" in ''The Beats: A Graphic History'' (2009) (co-author)
Discography
Albums and EPs
*''When Madman Was Good - Version One'' (1997)
*''When Madman Was Good - Version Two'' (1998)
*''Indie-Rock Fortune Cookie'' (1998)
*''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1999)
*''The Only Time I Feel Right Is When I'm Drawing Comic Books'' (2000)
*''I Am, Of Course, Glad'' (2000)
*''Kimya Dawson And Jeff Lewis'' (2001)
*''Songs From Austin'' (2001)
*''Diane Cluck And Jeffrey Lewis'' (2001)
*''
The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane
''The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favorites'' is the first album by anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis. It was released on CD in 2001 on Rough Trade Records and on vinyl in 2012 on Don Giovanni Records
Don Giovanni Records is an ...
'' (Rough Trade, 2001)
*''Guitar Situations: Musical Conduct'' (2002)
*''AntiFolk Collaborations Volume 1'' (2002)
*''
It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through'' (Rough Trade, 2003)
*''Jeffrey Lewis "Four Seasons" Box Set'' (Hallso, 2004)
*''
City and Eastern Songs
''City and Eastern Songs'' is the third album by anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis, though is credited to Jeffrey & Jack Lewis, Jeffrey's brother. Though Jack Lewis had contributed vocals, bass and songwriting to Jeffrey's two previous albums, th ...
'' (Jeffrey & Jack Lewis) (Rough Trade, 2005)
*''Gas Money EP'' (2005) (split with
Schwervon!)
*''Tapes From The Crypt'' (2006)
*''
12 Crass Songs'' (Rough Trade, 2007)
*''City and Eastern Tapes'' (2008)
*''
'Em Are I'' (Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard) (Rough Trade, 2009)
*''The Bundles'' (K Records, 2010)
*''
Come On Board'' (Peter Stampfel & Jeffrey Lewis) (2011)
*''A Turn in the Dream-Songs'' (Rough Trade, 2011)
*''Hey Hey it's... The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band'' (2013) (with
Peter Stampfel
Peter Stampfel (born October 29, 1938, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter.
Stampfel is best known as a member of the Holy Modal Rounders, a psychedelic folk band that he founded with ...
)
*''Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams'' (2014)
*''
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
'' (Rough Trade, 2015)
*''...Did Not Choose the Tracks...'' (PIAPTK, 2016)
*''A Loot-Beg Bootleg'' (Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams) (2016)
*''Works By Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010) ''(Jeffrey Lewis & The Deposit Returners) (Don Giovanni Records, April 2018)
*''13 Fall Songs'' (Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts) (2018)
*''Bad Wiring'' (Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage) (2019)
*''2019 Tapes: Cowardly & Brave & Stupid & Smart & Happy-Ever-After & Doomed'' (Jeffrey Lewis) (2020)
*''2020 Tapes: Shelter-at-Homerecordings & Pandemos'' (Jeffrey Lewis) (2020)
*''Both Ways'' (The Jeffrey Lewis &
Peter Stampfel
Peter Stampfel (born October 29, 1938, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter.
Stampfel is best known as a member of the Holy Modal Rounders, a psychedelic folk band that he founded with ...
Band) (2021)
*''2021 Tapes: Suddenly it's Been Too Late for a Long Time'' (Jeffrey Lewis) (2021)
Singles
*"The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song" (2001)
*"Back When I Was Four" (2002)
*"Graveyard/Spirit of Love" (2002)
*"No LSD Tonight/Don't Let The Record Label Take You Out To Lunch" (2003)
*"Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror" (2005)
*"Had It All" (2005)
*"To Be Objectified" (2009)
*"Roll Bus, Roll" (2010)
*"Cult Boyfriend" (2011)
*"WWPRD/Sunbeams/The Fall of the Soviet Union" (2013)
*"LPs" (2019) Spotify
*"In Certain Orders" (2019) Spotify
*"Except for the Fact That It Isn't" (2019) Spotify
*"Exactly What Nobody Wanted" (2019) Spotify
*"Keep it Chill! (in the East Vill)" (2020) Spotify YouTube
Compilation appearances
*''Antifolk Vol. 1'' (2002) – "You Don't Have To Be A Scientist To Do Experiments on Your Own Heart"
*''Call It What You Want This Is Antifolk'' (2002) – "So Long (I'm Gonna Go Draw All Alone In My Shack)"
*''Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before'' (2003) – "Part-Time Punks"
*''The Art Star Sounds Compilation'' (2005) – "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror"
*''
Still Unravished- A Tribute to June Brides'' (2006) – "Waiting For A Change"
*''
Anticomp Folkilation
''Anticomp Folkilation'' is a 2-CD compilation album featuring a variety of artists from New York's anti-folk scene.
Sounds and Themes
This album itself has been described as incongruous yet in line with traditional Folk and Punk sensibilities.
...
'' (2007) – "The River" (with
Diane Cluck
Diane Cluck is an American singer-songwriter. She describes her music as "intuitive folk". She currently resides in Virginia.
Early life
Cluck was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She began taking piano lessons at the age of 7, and was classi ...
)
*''Tallahassee Turns Ten: a Mountain Goats Cover Album'' (2012)
*''
Audio Antihero
Audio Antihero is a British independent record label formed in October 2009 and based in South East London. They have been the centerpiece of several radio BBC, PRI and international radio stories.
History
The label's first two releases, Nos ...
Presents: "Some.Alternate.Universe" for
FSID The Lullaby Trust (formerly FSID) is a British charitable organisation aiming to prevent unexpected deaths in infancy and promote infant health. The Lullaby Trust funds research, supports families whose babies have died suddenly and unexpectedly, di ...
'' (2012) – "Dog Eat Dog"
*''Weary Engine Blues: Crossroads'' (2013) – "Farewell Transmission"
*''Audio Antihero Presents: "Regal vs Steamboat" for
Rape Crisis'' (2013) – "Infinite Monkeys"
*''Audio Antihero Presents: "Unpresidented Jams" for SPLC & NILC'' (2017) – "Dictator Seeks Reichstag Fire"
*''Punk Against Trump Vol. 2 '' (2020) – "2nd Amendment Song"
*''Coalition '' (2020) – "Oh My Little Life On Earth"
References
External links
The official Jeffrey Lewis websiteRussian-english podcast about Jeffrey Lewis in Moscow''Efe Eme'' spanish magazine interview by Eduardo Tébar
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1975 births
Living people
Songwriters from New York (state)
Anti-folk musicians
American comics artists
American folk singers
Rough Trade Records artists
State University of New York at Purchase alumni
Don Giovanni Records artists
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
American male songwriters
Jewish anti-folk musicians
The Bundles members