Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders

About the show

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders takes the freaked improvisation of Alexander’s long-running instrumental band - DWLVS / Dire Wolves - into the world of song. Heady songwriting, ethereal jazz and krauty blues stomps are all featured. The Lidders include members of Elkhorn and Bardo Pond and are currently based in Philadelphia PA.

Alexander has been frittering around the edges of the psychedelic underground for several decades, having played in a host of groups like Jackie-O Motherfucker, The Iditarod, and Black Forest/Black Sea. He has also been an arts venue programming director, booking agent, record label owner, FM radio disc jockey, tour manager, espresso bar cafe owner, and curator of several international music festivals such as Terrastock. He has worked in arts museums from Baltimore to Providence to Pittsburgh to San Francisco. Jeffrey also followed the Grateful Dead as a taper, coast to coast, for most of the 1980s. He is also a free-form radio DJ with current programs on both Camp Radio and NQRA.