Jeffrey Lewis

He formed a band called Jeffrey Lewis & the Rain and recorded "WWPRD," a song about Russian anarchist punk group Pussy Riot, which accompanied a comic strip of the same name that was published in London newspaper The Guardian. Lewis assembled a new band called Jeffrey Lewis & the Jrams, who recorded an album in a single day in early 2014; the album included a spoken recital of "WWPRD," recorded live the previous year. Lewis returned to Rough Trade in 2015 for his next album, Manhattan, which was credited to Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts. In 2018, Lewis released Works by Tuli Kupferberg, credited to Jeffrey Lewis & the Deposit Returners, an ad hoc group including Peter Stampfel and Steve Espinola. The album featured interpretations of 15 songs by Kupferberg, a poet and activist who was one of the founding members of the Fugs; Lewis once collaborated with Tuli, illustrating an autobiographical piece for the collection The Beats: A Graphic History. Bad Wiring, a more existentialist outing billed to Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage, appeared in 2020. ~ David Jeffries & Paul Simpson, Rovi

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