Greg Weeks is an American singer-songwriter based in
Philadelphia
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. His music has been described as folk, acoustic, psychedelic and experimental. He is best known as a founding member of the psychedelic folk-rock band Espers. Weeks has released four solo albums and has guest-recorded with many artists, including
Fern Knight
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and
Marissa Nadler
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. He is also a member of The Valerie Project.
In 2007, he founded the record label
Language of Stone
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, an imprint of Drag City, along with his wife Jessica Weeks.
His song "Made" was featured in Weeds as well as the "Pink"
adicolor
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Now, however, he teaches the subject of English at Muhlenberg High School.
Discography
Solo
Albums
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Fire in the Arms of the Sun
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Fire in the Arms of the Sun
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At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition ...
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Ba da Bing!
Ba Da Bing Records is an American record label based in Brooklyn, New York. The name is derived from the saying "ba da bing, ba da boom", common among Italian-Americans, especially in New Jersey.
The label was founded in Leonia, New Jersey in 1 ...
Allmusic
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''.
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Awake Like Sleep
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Being awake is the opposite of being a sleep, in whic ...
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Ba da Bing!
Ba Da Bing Records is an American record label based in Brooklyn, New York. The name is derived from the saying "ba da bing, ba da boom", common among Italian-Americans, especially in New Jersey.
The label was founded in Leonia, New Jersey in 1 ...
, October 2, 2001)
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Blood is Trouble
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Ba da Bing!
Ba Da Bing Records is an American record label based in Brooklyn, New York. The name is derived from the saying "ba da bing, ba da boom", common among Italian-Americans, especially in New Jersey.
The label was founded in Leonia, New Jersey in 1 ...
, January 2005)
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* ''The Hive'' (2008 film), an American film starring Tom Wopat
* ''The Hive'' (2014 film), an English film starring Gabriel Basso
* The Hive (''Resident Evil''), an underground lab in the 2002 film '' ...
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Wichita Recordings
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, November 3, 2008)
EPs
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Keyhole Records
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Locust Music
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The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on ter ...
, January 20, 2004; ltd. ed. LP of 300 copies by Time Lag, 2004; CD and ltd. LP
Wichita Recordings
Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees include Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Y ...
, August 15, 2005)
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The Weed Tree
''The Weed Tree'' is the second album from Espers, released on Locust Music in 2005. It was, for the most part, a covers album, although it did feature the original song "Dead King". The artists covered were The Durutti Column, Nico, Michae ...
'' (LP/CD
Locust Music
Locust Music was a Chicago-based independent record label founded in 2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on ter ...
*''The Valerie Project'' (2LP/CD Drag City, November 20, 2007)
Mountain Home
*''Mountain Home (album)'' (CD
Language of Stone
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