Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage (NYC, Don Giovanni Records) Songwriter and comix artist Jeffrey Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in New York City in 1998; his critically acclaimed, unusual and word-dense songs lead to Jeffrey signing to Rough Trade Records in 2001 (record label of The Smiths, The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, etc.). Creating a brilliant style of scuzzy urban indie-rock-folk, like a 21st Century mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger and R. Crumb, Jeffrey has played countless gigs all over the world, both solo and with bandmates, including playing as the opening act for bands like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall, Dr. Dog, Pulp, Roky Erickson, The Vaselines, and more.
Currently at 19,700,000 Spotify streams. His most recent official album is “Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage: Bad Wiring” released on Don Giovanni Records (USA) and Moshi Moshi Records (internationally) in November 2019 (garnering rave reviews), but Jeffrey has also digitally self-released three DIY albums from his apartment since the pandemic started. Jeffrey continues to wring folksy spiel and garage bohemianism from his ramshackle guitar, whether with his full band or solo, while sometimes incorporating his often politically subversive visual artwork and cartoons into live appearances. Some of these audio/visual projects have been hosted on History.com, such as “The Story of Sitting Bull,” a Jeffrey Lewis illustrated song which won a Webby Award in 2011 for “Best Writing on the Internet;” Jeffrey's “The Story of Keith Haring” was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in 2021.
As of 2022 the 4-piece line-up of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage includes Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard, Mem Pahl on bass and Brent Cole on drums.
Local support from Insects on the Bough, and Lxs Perdidxs. Doors @ 7pm Music @ 8:15pm. 21+
"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" (****) - Rolling
Stone
“Jeffrey Lewis is an amazing musician, and if you don’t know his
songs you probably have a hole in your heart that can only be
filled by his words... I did!” – Regina Spektor
"Hands down my favorite contemporary songwriter" - Ben
Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)
“Jeffrey is the best pure songwriter I know of... 'Sad Screaming
Old Man’... is one of my favorite songs ever written” - David
Berman (Silver Jews)
“Ramshackle and beautiful noise... Lou Reed’s natural
successor as punk poet of the New York streets” - Louder Than
War
"Bizarre but brilliant" - Uncut
"Dazzling" - Mojo
"Jeffrey is the only artist I've sent fan mail to.” - Jens Lekman
"Really great and impressive and inspiring and exciting...
There's not a lot of people that can tell a story and use
language like that in music." - Will Oldham