Click here to celebrate the most fun holiday in the Gregorian calendar with a playlist full of (non-rubbish) scary tracks. 1. She Made My Blood Run Cold – Ike Turner 2. Monster Mash – The Beach Boys 3. The Frighteners – Joe Innes & the Cavalcade 4. Thriller – Michael Jackson 5. Werewolf Bar...
The title of Lach’s show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe embodies his philosophy not just towards music but arts and culture in their broadest sense: Up the Anti! The founder of The Fort, an early home to the ragtag bunch of musicians kicked out of the Lower East Side’s folk clubs for being too...
This Friday sees the opening of “DIY is all you need”, a free exhibition celebrating music and DIY culture in Deptford, London. Organised by Folie à Deux and Broken Sound, the exhibition will include artwork from Jeffrey Lewis, Rachael Dadd, Rozi Plain, This is the Kit, Alessi’s Ark and more. And the works will be accompanied...
I once watched a programme about the making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Actually, it was either a programme about Thriller or American Werewolf in London, though it doesn’t matter. Apparently, immediately after seeing American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson picked up his phone and called his management with the request that he wanted become...
After the release of this album “A Turn In the Dream-Songs” on Rough Trade a couple of weeks ago. New York pro-folk legend Jeffrey Lewis is heading out on tour across the UK. The album was recorded in the UK with members of Johnny Flynn’s band The Sussex Wit and the Wave Pictures. Jeff...
The leaves have browned and are falling in Central Park, busloads of tourists are flocking in for the storybook ‘autumn in New York’ experience, and the countdown is on to the Hallowe’en Parade. Jeffrey Lewis, meanwhile, should be home by Christmas. He bases himself in Manhattan, collects his mail from Cooper Station Post Office on...
Frankly, by now we should be used to Jeffrey Lewis’ musical left turns. After albums of Crass covers, multimedia sing-songs about the rise of communism and just about the most disparate set of song subjects across a career (falling asleep on a Greyhound bus or being raped by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy for example) it...
Brian’s recently gotten to thinking about how much of the music he loves is about the cities, suburbs and plains of the U S of A. He was going to do you a playlist about the whole darn country, but realised that that was biting off more than he could chew (which isn’t much...
We came across Ben Phillips through his intriguing artwork on Peggy Sue’s releases. But his involvement with the London folk crowd doesn’t stop there. The Camberwell-based artist has been prolific over the past few years, providing artwork and posters for Daniel Johnston, Rachael Dadd and Alessi’s Ark. We got in touch with him over...
Most will know him best for singing charmingly odd little ditties about mosquitos, oral sex and ghouls; but anyone who has spent time hanging about the merch stall at a Jeffrey Lewis gig will also know that he is a highly talented artist and has produced all manner of comic books and illustrated histories of...
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