Jeffrey Lewis WORKS BY TULI KUPFERBERG (1923-2010) 3/19/13 touring Japan

touring Japan

Akiyoshi had to battle for acceptance on many fronts

urgent strings and a staggeringly good vocal performance make this a real highlight amongst an album of highlights

Chrome Canyon creates his own soundtrack to an unmade film

and a full-length Hollywood movie

Jeffrey Lewis WORKS BY TULI KUPFERBERG (1923-2010) 3/19/13 touring JapanThis recent album I've recorded, is all covers of Tuli (Fugs) Kupferberg songs. Tuli died in 2010, and every year since then I've organized an annual tribute concert in which I pick an assortment of Tuli songs and I assemble a band of musicians to play with me (sometimes including Peter Stampfel, appropriate 'cuz he was in the original Fugs lineup with Tuli in 1965). Each year I tell myself I'll get around to making a proper recording of some of these