John Pullman "Jake" Longstreth Jr. (born February 3, 1977) is an American painter, musician, and radio personality. He is currently the co-host of the

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show, '' Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig'' and member of a

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cover band, Richard Pictures, as well as his own musical outfit, Mountain Brews.

Education

Longstreth received his

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

in 1999 from

Lewis & Clark College Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1867 and is situated on the historic M. Lloyd Frank Estate in South Portland's Collins View neighborhood. It is composed of three distinct but adjac ...

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, and his

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in 2005 from

California College of the Arts The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in ...

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Career

He is a 2008 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. His paintings can be found in the collections at the

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, the

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Library, and

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, among others. Longstreth tends to portray architecture in flat, geometric forms, recalling influences such as

Robert Bechtle Robert Alan Bechtle (May 14, 1932 – September 24, 2020) was an American Painting, painter, printmaker, and educator. He lived nearly all his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and whose art was centered on scenes from everyday local life. His p ...

and

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English Painting, painter, Drawing, draughtsman, Printmaking, printmaker, Scenic design, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considere ...

, finding a place between “documentary” realism and symbolic metaphor, whereas his landscapes are portrayed as more of an improvised realism. He makes regular appearances as a co-host and former "West Coast correspondent" on ''Time Crisis'', the Apple Music internet radio show hosted by

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Ezra Koenig Ezra Michael Koenig ( ; born April 8, 1984) is an American musician, record producer, and radio personality. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of indie rock band Vampire Weekend. Additionally, Koenig is the creator of the ...

, where he frequently gives in-depth investigative reports on various topics such as the history of the

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corporation,

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, and the

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(NRA). Longstreth is also a guitarist in the

cover band, Richard Pictures. In 2016, he made several appearances with Vampire Weekend and

Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002. The band is the project of singer-songwriter David Longstreth, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes. The b ...

as a supporting musician during their performances for

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' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Richard Pictures continued to perform with Vampire Weekend at various live shows such as the 2018

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performance, and opened for the band at several venues for their 2019 Father of the Bride tour. In June 2019, Longstreth released an EP with rock group Mountain Brews, and in January 2020 the group released their second EP, Let It Grow. On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, during their two-night concert series at

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covered Longstreth's "Mountain Brews," the title track from the EP of the same name. Longstreth's third EP with Mountain Brews, ''Raised in a Place'', released on November 7.

Personal life

Longstreth is the older brother of

David Longstreth David Longstreth (born December 17, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Dirty Projectors, whom he has fronted sinc ...

, the lead singer and guitarist of

. He married filmmaker Hannah Fidell on September 23, 2017, in

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References

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