Nestatag:arthurthefourth.com,2009:/2019-01-30T00:00:00+00:00Freestyle Love Supreme: The Runtag:arthurthefourth.com,2019-01-30:/blog/2019/freestyle-love-supreme-run<p>Hello friends! As you may have heard already, I'm in an Off-Broadway run of <a href="https://freestylelovesupreme.com">Freestyle Love Supreme</a>, starting today, January 30! Tonight is our first preview, opening night is February 12, and we run until March 3.</p>
<p>The run is sold out (womp womp), BUT. There's a ticket lottery <em>every day</em>. Go to <a href="https://www.todaytix.com/x/nyc/shows/13653-freestyle-love-supreme">TodayTix</a> and enter to win $30 tickets!</p>
<p>It's been a long time since I played this many shows in this short an amount of time. I'm excited and terrified. And I hope you'll come be excited and terrified with me.</p>2019-01-30T00:00:00+00:002019-01-30T00:00:00+00:00Demos From Another Lifetag:arthurthefourth.com,2018-02-12:/blog/2018/demos-from-another-life
<p>Back in 2007, I was working on an album. The album, called <em>Waiting</em>, was mostly songs about the fears and inactions of my 20s — feelings of "not enough" and "maybe" and someday". When the title started to get a little too literal, I decided to split it up into two EPs: I'd put out the songs that were close to finished as <em>If We Were</em>, and when I finished the other tunes, I'd put them out as a second EP called <em>In The Days</em>.</p>
<p>In 2008, I put out <a href="https://arthurlewis.bandcamp.com/album/if-we-were">If We Were</a>. People seemed to like it. But life got in the way, and In The Days never happened. Now those unfinished bits and pieces have been sitting on my hard drive mostly unheard for over 10 years. But I really LIKE them. Some of the best work I've ever done is buried in those recordings.</p>
<p>And that means they're taking up space in my brain. Something in the back of my mind always wondering: what am I gonna do with those songs? Should I try to finish the demos? Should I redo them from scratch? Can I really just forget about them?</p>
<p>No, I can't. But it's been a decade. I've got a new life, new challenges, and new ideas. Trying to finish these old tracks would be like trying to go back to who I was then. They're a time capsule of a young man in flux — uncertain, unfinished, unsure how to move forward, unwilling to give up.</p>
<p>So I've decided to let them live online as they are, exactly as I last saved them many years ago. No edits, no tweaks — just some glimpses into the mind of a younger me. Some <a href="https://soundcloud.com/arthurlewis/sets/demos-from-another-life">Demos from Another Life</a>.</p>
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2018-02-12T00:00:00+00:002018-02-12T00:00:00+00:00Set Sailtag:arthurthefourth.com,2014-12-12:/blog/2014/set-sail<p>So, tonight's my featured episode of <a href="http://www.takepart.com/freestyle-love-supreme">Freestyle Love Supreme</a>. Mingled in with the rapping and the songs and the silliness is a little story about me and Queens. Also nestled in there somewhere is a little section of one of my songs. I'm hoping some people will show up here after the episode tonight, so it seems like the perfect time to post this live video, filmed by <a href="https://twitter.com/graysondantzic">Grayson Dantzic</a> at <a href="http://rockwoodmusichall.com">Rockwood Music Hall</a> back in February.</p>
<p>The song is called Set Sail.</p>
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<p>P.S. For you TV nerds out there, this song was inspired by the 5th season of Lost.</p>2014-12-12T00:00:00+00:002014-12-12T00:00:00+00:00Easy Roadtag:arthurthefourth.com,2014-10-27:/blog/2014/easy-road<p>So I know it's been all TV-this and <a href="http://freestylelovesupreme.com">Freestyle Love Supreme</a>-that recently, but that's not the only thing I'm doing these days. I dropped by <a href="http://studio42brooklyn.com">Studio 42</a> recently to record some of my tunes for the new <a href="http://thisisnottheradio.com">This Is Not The Radio</a> compilation.</p>
<p>Alessio also likes to film his recording sessions, so here's me doing <em>Easy Road</em>. Hope you like it.</p>
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</div>2014-10-27T00:00:00+00:002014-10-27T00:00:00+00:00I'm Gonna Be On The TVtag:arthurthefourth.com,2014-10-17:/blog/2014/im-gonna-be-on-the-tv<p>So this is a thing that's happening. <a href="http://freestylelovesupreme.com">Freestyle Love Supreme</a>, the freestyle rap improv comedy group I've been playing keys and singing in since 2003, has gone and gotten ourselves a TV show. And not just some well-produced video on the Internet. A real live 10 episode season on <a href="http://pivot.tv">Pivot</a>, the cable network behind Joseph Gordon-Levitt's <em>Hit Record</em>.</p>
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<p>We're on tonight, Friday Oct. 17th, at 10:30 Eastern, and 7:30 Pacific. And then every Friday after that for 9 weeks.</p>
<p>For those of you who don't get Pivot (DirectTV: 267, Dish: 197, Verizon FiOS: 692HD / 192SD, RCN: 552HD/114SD), you can also watch on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Freestyle-Love-Supreme-HD/dp/B00IWYEYCQ">Amazon</a> or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/freestyle-love-supreme/id830842546">iTunes</a>.</p>
<p>I hope you like the show!</p>2014-10-17T00:00:00+00:002014-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Nerd Alerthttp://arthurthefourth.com/?p=550<p>You may not know this, but I'm also a developer, specializing in building tools for musicians. I'm working on a new version of this site that integrates the two things a little better, but in the meantime, I've put up a temporary developer site with some of the musical tools and other doodads I've been working on recently. Check it out!</p>
<p><a href="http://code.arthurthefourth.com">code.arthurthefourth.com</a></p>2014-09-14T00:00:00+00:002014-09-14T00:00:00+00:00Live at Rockwood, Part IIIhttp://arthurthefourth.com/?p=548
<p>Here's another Rockwood set with Dan Asher and Akie Bermiss, from back in the spring. This time, my sister Marie Lewis joined us to fill out those sweet sweet three-part harmonies.</p>
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2013-08-31T00:00:00+00:002013-08-31T00:00:00+00:00This Is Not The Radio, Monday at Rockwoodhttp://arthurthefourth.com/?p=538
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2013-03-22T00:00:00+00:002013-03-22T00:00:00+00:00Live at Rockwood, Revisitedhttp://arthurthefourth.com/?p=532
<p>A couple months ago, I played at Rockwood with some very talented fellas: <a href="http://akiebermiss.com">Akie Bermiss</a>, and Dan Asher. Here are a few moments I was particularly proud of. That "Love Having You Around" cover may be the funkiest thing I've ever been a part of. Hope you enjoy.</p>
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2013-01-07T00:00:00+00:002013-01-07T00:00:00+00:00Tumblrhttp://arthurthefourth.com/2012/06/tumblr/
<p>I don't post here often enough. It feels like I have to have something great and portentous to say. So I made myself a Tumblr for the pictures, the videos, and the quick passing thoughts. The big ideas will still end up here.</p>
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