I know, I know... If you're at all like me, you were probably pretty stoked about a band named after Thomas Jefferson's intrepid explorers of the Louisiana Purchase, until you noticed the "e" up there that's not really on the end of William Clark's name. Then you realized the band's name refers to the correspondence between C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke, not the Corps of Discovery. (Ok, th...
I know, I know... If you're at all like me, you were probably pretty stoked about a band named after Thomas Jefferson's intrepid explorers of the Louisiana Purchase, until you noticed the "e" up there that's not really on the end of William Clark's name. Then you realized the band's name refers to the correspondence between C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke, not the Corps of Discovery. (Ok, th...
Robert Smith & Co. are still ticking (and typing), but their long, storied career's more than worthy a tribute. We mentioned Perfect As Cats: A Tribute To The Cure last month when offering up Bats For Lashes' cover of Seventeen Seconds' "A Forest." The two-disc comp also includes this cover of later-period Cure's "Disintegration" by meditative, multi-tasking post-folk Pennsylvanians Lewis & Cla...
Lewis & Clarke, the expansive folk project of Lou Rogai, is set to tour this summer with Caroline Weeks, formerly a member of Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes band. Listen to “Petrified Forest,” an almost seven-minute jam from Lewis & Clarke’s recent Light Time EP.Tour dates with Caroline Weeks:07/24/09 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church (chapel) #07/26/09 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
Lewis & Clarke are an indie mood rock band who are about to release their new EP, Light Time on May 19th.The EP is a collection of stripped down, folk-based tracks. Each song is a dreamy melodramatic tale of yearning. The tracks are delicate, yet possess an inner strength to them.The vocals are hushed, at times to the point of being nearly indiscernible ("Petrified Forest"). Coupled with th