Jeffrey Lewis, Jack Lewis & David Beauchamp. (other members are or have been: Helen Schreiner, Anders Griffen, Emily Lacey, Jason Rabinowitz, John Kessel, Raphi Gottesman, Herman Dune, Abe Velez, Spencer Chakides, Ben Ayers, The Wave Pictures, Kimya Dawson Brer Brian, Diane Cluck and many more)
Influences
Daniel Johnston,Yo La Tengo, The Fugs, Donovan, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Can, Violent Femmes, Jonathan Richman, Pavement, Ween, Galaxie 500, Luna, Herman Dune, Beat Happening, The Fall, Olive Juice Music, Louie Louie, Smithsonian Folk Anthology, 60s psych/garage, LES punk, Krautrock, Prewar Yardsale, Dufus, comic books (Eightball, Peepshow, Berlin, Optic Nerve)
OUR DAYTROTTER SESSION IS NOW UP. We recorded these four songs during the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. Two Crass songs and two brand new ditties.
Jeffrey featured on NPR's All Things Considered (Thanks to Guy Raz for having us)
Jeff featured on NPR's WNYC's Soundcheck
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Jeffrey Lewis and his band announce support of Texan garage-psyche icon and former 13th Floor Elevator - Roky Erickson. The show will take place at the HMV Forum in Kentish Town, London. As a special bonus for fans of Jeffrey there are a limited number of discount tickets available. Tickets are available HERE until 5pm on Friday 26th June.
This site by brother Jack & drummer Dave (rarely seen by Jeff)
If you want to hear about upcoming shows send your e-mail address (and where you live) to JeffLewisBand@gmail.com. This is also the e-mail we use for this account if you want to be added as a friend
Jeff Lewis and the Jitters Flickr account. Featuring a detailed look behind the scenes on tour. Featuring appearances from Herman Dune, Menomena, Misty's Big Adventure, The Wave Pictures, The Wowz, Lisa Li Lund, Stanely Brinks and lots more.
The Jeff Lewis Bio:
Jeffrey 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, both autobiographical and fantastical, found new vent when Lewis began making up songs in the winter of 97-98. Initially inspired by the gentle psychedelic folk of Donovan, the DIY magic of Daniel Johnston, and the fearless early recordings of local folk-punk legends the Fugs, Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in 1998 and selling them, packaged in small comic books, at his soon semi-monthly shows at Sidewalk, home of New York's Antifolk scene. Lewis's younger brother Jack began playing electric bass and contributing to the shows and tapes.
When other Sidewalk performers the Moldy Peaches signed to Rough Trade Records in late 2000, they recommended Jeffrey's cassette recordings to label head Geoff Travis, and Rough Trade has since released three full-length Jeffrey Lewis CDs in America, England and Europe, garnering glowing press and a devoted following for the idiosyncratic illustrator/songwriter. Like his Rough Trade releases, and an art/music/DVD box set project (released on England's Hallso label), Lewis's shows can range between "lo-fi folk and sci-fi punk" as well as occasionally incorporating "low budget videos" (large color illustrations displayed to accompany songs).
It is only since 2002 that Jeffrey and Jack have become an "official" band, with various friends trading time in the drum seat. The Jeffrey Lewis Band has toured the US, UK and Europe sharing bills along the way with Cornershop, the Fall, Beth Orton, Frank Black, Daniel Johnston, Scout Niblett, the Mountain Goats, Radio4, Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, British Sea Power, the Fiery Furnaces, Thurston Moore, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Devendra Banhart, and others.
"The Big Apple's best-kept secret" - NME
"Jeffrey Lewis: 'The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane' - Best Indie Album of 2002; like his drawings, his music is witty, animated and true." - New York Daily News
"Bizarre but brilliant. Jeffrey Lewis could well be [New York's] ace in the hole." - Uncut
and if you know what this is, then click it, don't be scared....
hey, since you'll be in europe and so close to our budding awesome amazing supercool indie scene here, please take the short 1 hour flight from barcelona to rome!!!!
we wanna meet y'all and make wacky great music together...whether live or whatever! we'll show you the colosseum and give u a tour!
I couldn't make the Dublin gig (long story) and my friend got me a drawing by you, just want to say thanks, means a lot!! Cheered me up something good :)
Jeff, your new album is on high rotation at BLU FM here in the Blue Mountains. Just can't get past it. Bugs & Flowers does for death & decay what TSOM *never* did for hills. Lovely stuff! Come back soon. cheers- Francis.
I'm happy to announce that my new album "Songs From The Films Of David Lynch" is out now.
"Truly unsettling and perplexingly brilliant... testament to both the quality of Lynch’s soundtracks and Truax’s talents" - The Skinny
"Truax is paying homage to a kindred spirit with this album. It's the best kind of tribute – affectionate and respectful, but with its own quirks and imaginative leaps and its own distinct identity." -The Scotsman
people, i just wanted to thank you so much for EM ARE I. i've been listening to it for about three days now and i still love it, especially 'Roll Bus Roll' and 'Broken Broken Broken Heart.' and the packaging is so great! Some absolutely, staggeringly, beautiful, brilliant and concise, lyrics synced with such warm, loving music. thank you so much, guys, i hear you working hard on every song and word, and its really made a difference with me, great music for the inward thinker. i even put 'You Don't Have To Be a Scientist' on a mix i made for one of my creative writing professor's here at UCR, fiction writer Chris Abani. i'm so happy you guys are making music and i can't wait to hear what you guys are going to be playing in the years to come.
