Instruments Vocals, bass Siblings Jeffrey Lewis Role Musician | Name Jack Lewis Years active 1997–present Music group The Bundles | |
Also known as Laissezfaire Lewis, Jack Lewis and the Cutoffs Genres Lo-Fi-DIY-Indie-Pop-Core, Beat Poetry Occupation(s) Musician, visual artist Labels Smoking Gun
Rough Trade
OliveJuiceMusic.com Albums City and Eastern Songs, Lvov Swims the Willamette, City & Eastern Tapes, Laissezfaire Lewis, On a Shoe String Education Bard College, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School Similar People Jeffrey Lewis, Anders Griffen, Karl Blau, Kimya Dawson, Bob Brookmeyer | ||
Jack Lewis (born October 1980 in New York City, New York) is an American musician, beat poet and artist. He was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He is the younger brother of Jeffrey Lewis, whom he often performs and records with. Jack Lewis is now based in Portland, Oregon.
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Biography
Lewis is a 1998 graduate of LaGuardia High School, where he focused on the visual arts. He went on to graduate from Bard College with a degree in visual arts in June, 2002. Jack previously worked in Museum and Movie ticket sales.
Musical career
Lewis self-released L'vov's Lament under the name "Lesser Lewis" in 2002. It contains a collection of songs recorded with over two years. It features Jackson Barry Stole My Trumpet (Jordan Rathkopf and Raphi Gottesmen), Guitar Situations (w/ Dave Miko and Nellie Bridge) and Andre Herman Dune.
He has written and performed on songs for Jeffrey Lewis's albums The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane in 2001, It's The Ones Who've Cracked That The Light Shines Through in 2003, and 'Em Are I (2008).
Lewis released L'vov Reads His Notes in 2005 (featuring Herman Dune and Tyler Drosdeck) and L'vov Goes To Emandee with My UNICEF Box in 2007 under the name: Jack Lewis and the Cutoffs. In 2007, he did a Take-Away Show.
In 2009 he was featured in the Take-Away Shows from the Midi Festival from the Summer of 2009, including his cover version of the Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us".
He has contributed to recordings by Herman Düne.
The Wave Pictures covered Lewis' song "Polar Bear" as a B-side on their 7" single, "If You Leave It Alone". His song "Shadow Party", co-written by Raphi Gottesman, is used in the film, Breaking Upwards.
The Bundles, a band featuring Kimya Dawson, Karl Blau, Anders Griffen, and Jeffrey Lewis and Jack Lewis, released their first album in March 2010 on K Records.