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Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts in Jamaica Plain, MA, Nov 24, 2018

JEFFREY LEWIS & Los Bolts (NYC, Rough Trade Records)

SAT Nov 24
Jamaica Plain, MA
Deep Thoughts
138b South St, 02130
All-ages!
8pm!
With Bong Wish and Request Freebird!
BYOB
$10
(only 70 tix available!)
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Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts (NYC, Rough Trade Records) play a crazy, original mix of scuzzy urban indie-rock, literate lyrics and comic book punk, like a 21st Century mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger and R. Crumb. Jeffrey has done tours in Europe and America and Australia and Asia and elsewhere, a few tours every year since 2001, as well as sometimes playing as the opening act for bands like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, The Fall, Pulp, Roky Erickson, The Vaselines and other luminaries. Jeffrey has released seven critically acclaimed albums on Rough Trade Records, in addition to occasional self-releases and projects on other labels (like K Records and Don Giovanni), and Jeffrey continues to self-publish his art and writing in an ongoing underground comic book series called Fuff. With current Los Bolts bandmates Brent (Moldy Peaches) Cole on drums and Mem (Cat Tatt) Pahl on bass, recent band projects include a covers album called Works by Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) on Don Giovanni Records, and a brand new full-length original album recorded in Nashville with producer Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo), with title and release date tba!

"Jeffrey Lewis is slowly but surely on a trajectory to immortal cult-status."- Line of Best Fit
"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 Reeds natural successor as punk poet of the New York streets - Louder Than War
"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" (four of five stars) -Rolling Stone
"Lewis's catchiest and finest album (gets an A rating) - Robert Christgau
One of our cleverest, hardest-working, most underrated songwriters - Magnet
The Big Apples best-kept secret.... Genius-gone-ignored mind-blowing."- NME
"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
Ideas burst from Jeffrey Lewis ramshackle fuzzbomb jams inspirational." (four of five stars) - The Guardian
"How come Jeffrey Lewis isn't huge? There's no doubt that he's one of the best lyricists currently producing music - The Portland Mercury