Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage, w/ Grasping Straws, and one more TBA

Wed Oct 16 – Olympia, WA – Wild Man (414 4th Ave E, 98501) Doors: 6:30 pm. $14 adv/$18 day-of. All ages! Tix link coming soon!

Jeffrey Lewis and his various bandmates have perfected a scuzzy, urban style of indie-folk, developing from late-90s New York City bedroom tapes into a mighty 21st Century mash-up of folksy spiel and artsy garage, like Pete Seeger meeting Sonic Youth. A born and raised denizen of the Lower East Side, Lewis’s home recordings were discovered by Rough Trade Records in 2001. He’s built a worldwide fanbase while regularly changing band names, most recently recording as Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage for Don Giovanni Records and Moshi Moshi Records.

On stage, Lewis is backed by collaborators in a lineup currently known as Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage. The band’s spectacular newest full-length album Bad Wiring was recorded in Nashville, TN with producer Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney) and released November 1, 2019, on Don Giovanni Records (USA/Australia) and Moshi Moshi Records (UK/Europe/ROW).

“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” – David Berman (Silver Jews)