Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard

"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" (four of five stars) - Rolling Stone

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today. - Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)

The Big Apples best-kept secret.... Genius-gone-ignored mind-blowing." - NME

"Bizarre but brilliant" - Uncut

"Hands down my favorite contemporary songwriter" - Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)

All my favorite songwriters are American Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis. - Eddie Argos (Art Brut), Time Out New York

"At his best, [Lewis is] a vulnerable master of the humorously ineffable" - Robert Christgau

"Strumming a few chords on a guitar that may well be held together by the stickers covering its front, and leading a band that piles on a cheerful clutter... [Jeffrey is] a clever, articulate wordslinger, coming up with rhetorical conceits... and putting in a lot of preparation... [including] finely reasoned histories... affirming populism through primitivism." - Jon Pareles, The New York Times

"Modestly brilliant" - The Village Voice

"Bands as magical and genuinely original as this are as essential as oxygen." - Culture Delux

"Dazzling" - Mojo

THE SEVEN INCHES

.. What does it mean to be a seven inch?

It means to be a footsoldier of beauty, with joie de vivre as your creed

Commitment to socialist folk music, soul power, classical sturm und drang, rock and roll realism, pop love, gospel truth, experimental ideology, and punk creativity.

To believe in content over competence, style over content, and honesty over style.

To provide a pop-up paper theatre, a miniature masquerade, a quixotic cultural melee.

To dance and dance till the musics over

To always listen to the b-side

To create miracles in your spare time to give you consolation in your unfree time to make ridiculous claims like some puffed-up charlatan, or spurious god

"...The Seven Inches have to be one of the best kept secrets in Britain right now, though a bit Britpop. (And that Ian is a weirdo, he drinks cough medicine onstage!)"

DUFUS

Dufus are possibly one of the most prolific, original, and influential bands to emerge from the chaotic mash of freak folk acoustic rock scene of New York City in the past ten years. Their sound is absolutely different, Seth Faergolzias voice and songwriting style can be matched by no other.