A couple of months ago, I caught Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard opening for ultra-British talk-rockers Art Brut at the Mercury Lounge in New York, which struck me as unlikely, to say the least. This is a dude who sings in a nasal, simplistic, and subtly brilliant style to narrate his hand-drawn comic books, which he refers to as “low-budget Netflix.” It turns out Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos
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DiS premières the new video from musician and illustrator Jeffrey Lewis. Jeffrey Lewis has made this video for only $99. In it, he's constructed a time lapse, large scale illustration, while his performance is rotoscoped into a comic book cartoon. The video is for the Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard track 'To Be Objectified' taken is from the album 'Em Are I, which is released in the UK on the 20t..
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Okay, let's ditch this boring stuff: Jeffrey Lewis is an underground comic book artist/anti-folk hero who releases his rekkids on Rough Trade and does cool shit like draw comics and write funny folk songs that sound like Jonathan Richman if he had a sizeable package. He also put out an album of Crass covers (TMT Review) (bad ass!) and is releasing a new album called Em Are I sometime in '09. Oh...
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When anti-folk singer/songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis comes to your city this fall, expect to hear the brand new sequel to the song "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror," a track from 2005's City & Eastern Songs. According to various inside sources here at TMT, Lewis' new song is tentatively titled "Greenpoint Tim Harrington Grandeur." However, it is also rumored that he could be exp...
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Back in the early part of 2001, I was privileged to see Jeffrey Lewis at his first ever concert in the U. K. He'd just stepped off a plane, into the Rough Trade record shop, but because of extreme jet lag, he wasn't able to tune his own guitar.
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Jeffrey Lewis is both a man and a legend. If I could practise making babies with anyone right now, it would be him. He manages to hold his audience suspended: there is never much talking at a Lewis show for fear of missing some gem of a rhyme or phrasing that has the ability to make an audience member smile while at the same time ripping out their still beating hearts and waving it in their fac...
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Jeffrey Lewis with Rachel Lipsontracks: Graveyard, Spirit of Love. 7 inch Vinyl2nd Pressing (of 500) 7 inch vinyl released by nowhere fast records 2002.Jeff Lewis was raised on New York's Lower East Side by loving beatnik parents. Having no television in the tenement apartment, he became a comic book fanatic before even learning how to read. A life-long love of writing and drawing comic books, ...
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He may be thinning on top and the wrong side of 30, but Jeffrey Lewis is undoubtedly the current king of hip and quirky anti-folk
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Anti-folkster Jeffrey Lewis has made this amusing short video to help celebrate Rough Trade 's 30th Anniversary.
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For Jeffrey Lewis the guitar is the telephone, microphone, megaphone. It's all just transit for words and he has plenty, boy, packing the cars and jumping the rails, surprising, straightforward with optimistic specifics about the ways we live in the world. Played live these words come with pictures projected and painted on sheets, but the draw is still his spoken-sung story - of politics, love,...
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So it looks like I might be going to the "End Of The Road festival":http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com/I am WAY excited. It does mean sleeping in a tent, but then I get to see Low and The Dirty Three and Calexico and Bill Callahan and The Mountain Goats and Jeffrey Lewis and Kurt Wagner and British Sea Power and Jason Molina....Anyway, brag brag brag. But really this whole post is just so that...
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As promised, here is a song from the new Jeffrey Lewis album 12 Crass Songs. I have so say that the packaging for this CD is great. It has an autobiography of JL and his love of Crass in JL comic form. LOVEY.And the songs are all pretty great.
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| 1 Don't Let the Record Label Take You out to Lunch |
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| 2 Back When I Was 4 |
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| 5 If You Shoot the Head You Kill the Ghoul |
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