“Weird? Very… but also downright inspiring” (four of five stars) – Rolling Stone

“One of our cleverest, hardest-working, most underrated songwriters” – Magnet

“Ideas burst from Jeffrey Lewis… ramshackle fuzzbomb jams… inspirational.” (four of five stars) – The Guardian

“Hands down my favorite contemporary songwriter” – Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)

“[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.” – Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)

“Ramshackle and beautiful noise… Lou Reed’s natural successor as punk poet of the New York streets” – Louder Than War

“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

JEFFREY LEWIS & Los Bolts:

Born and raised New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis is a comic book artist and indie-rock musician, treading in the musical realms of Yo La Tengo/Jonathan Richman/Velvet Underground.  Beginning with homemade cassettes in the late 90s, and moving on to touring the world and releasing “proper” albums on Rough Trade Records since 2001, Jeffrey’s career has included sharing bills and tours with the likes of The Vaselines, The Fall, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Roky Erickson, The Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston, Devo, Pulp and many other luminaries.  In between his contemplative folk narratives and garage indie-punk songs Jeffrey is known for including illustrated songs in concert, sometimes covering historical topics (like “The History of Cuba”), or strange flights of fancy (like “The Creeping Brain”).  Current band incarnation Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts features Mem Pahl on bass and Brent Cole on drums.  Rough Trade Records (label of The Smiths, The Strokes, etc.) has released the seventh Jeffrey Lewis album, “Manhattan,” mixed by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., War on Drugs), widely acclaimed as the best Jeffrey Lewis album to date; Jeffrey has self-published twelve issues of his comic book series Fuff, and Jeffrey’s writing, illustrations, comic books and music have been featured by The New York Times, NPR and The History Channel (among other places).