The new Jeffrey Lewis album "12 Crass Songs" is slated for release digitally on Rough Trade in America on November 13, 2007! "12 Crass Songs" , featuring Jeffrey's creative interpretations of 12 songs by the anarchist punk band Crass, comes in a special die-cut cover sleeve designed by Jeffrey, with full-color fold-out comic book artwork. This album will ONLY be available in stores and online, and not at the tour concerts, which will make album sales easier to track - half of all money Jeff makes from album sales of this CD will be donated to humanitarian charities and causes (ones which Crass would hopefully approve of).

Jeffrey Lewis was raised in New York City and is a maker of comic books, tragi-comic folk narratives, and lysergic garage rock. With brother Jack on bass and David Beauchamp on drums, the Jeffrey Lewis Band mixes 60s acoustic psychedelia like Pearls Before Swine with the experimental art-punk of the Fall and the urban lyricism of Lou Reed, sounding a bit like if Woody Guthrie fronted Sonic Youth. Live shows also incorporate "low budget videos", Jeff’s large illustrations displayed to accompany certain songs. In 2001 Jeffrey Lewis signed to Rough Trade Records and has since released three albums.
The Jeffrey Lewis Band has toured the US, UK and Europe, sharing bills with Devendra Banhart, Black Dice, Thurston Moore, the Fall, Beth Orton, Frank Black, the Fiery Furnaces, Daniel Johnston, Scout Niblett, the Mountain Goats, the Moldy Peaches, Cornershop, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Wooden Wand, the Cribs, the Danielson Famile and others.

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