MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage + David Cronenberg’s Wife
The Crescent, York
IN a workingmen’s club turned community venue in Old York, indie kids young and old are out in force to see Jeffrey Lewis: New York’s finest, and possibly only, comic-book artist, perma-touring troubadour, DIY garage-rock musician, and anti-folk songwriter.
What is anti-folk? Tom, singer in support band David Cronenberg’s Wife, is on-hand to explain: ”It’s acoustic punk, of course, and it’s about things that are true to life. Like this next song, which is about when I met a mermaid.”
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