press
"Kris Lefcoe’s Booked A Room: A masterpiece of emotion in motion”— PRINT Magazine
“Kris Lefcoe covers The Stooges”— If It’s Too Loud
“Booked A Room: the eerie, excellent new single and gloriously-inventive video by filmmaker and musician Kris Lefcoe” — The Autumn Roses
“Best New Rock” Kris Lefcoe — The Wild is Calling
“Kris Lefcoe transforms the Stooges track into a psychedelic ambient odyssey” — Last Day Deaf
“Award-Winning Filmmaker Kris Lefcoe Shares Tribeca Premiered Solo Debut Booked A Room” — Mundane Magazine
MUSIC BIO
Filmmaker Kris Lefcoe has always had a secret identity as a musician.
A classically-trained pianist, Kris started performing in a hoodie with her back to the audience under the moniker MC Tourettes in the early aughts. For the release of the electroclash compilation Bad Grrrlz (Gay Records) - featuring songs by Peaches and Carole Pope - Kris performed at a strip bar in a burqa. Her speed-rap single Little Liquid topped the CIUT Toronto college radio chart. She formed a band with members of Blue Rodeo, Rusty, and Groovy Religion, performing under different names at Toronto venues The Drake, Rivoli, and the El Mocombo.
After moving to NYC, Kris started playing solo shows using nothing but an old DX-100 keyboard she found in the garbage. These “garbage keys” became the foundation of her unique sound – sparse, haunting space-pop. In a raw, lilting voice over a swollen bed of harmonic decay, Kris spills secrets about bad cops, weird drugs and the nature of time and space.
Booked A Room, the advance single from debut LP The Naked Tapes, was released June 10 2024. A hallucinatory stop-motion music video directed by Kris had its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. A limited edition 45 pressed by Third Man with a cover of the Stooges’ “Dirt” as the B-Side was available exclusively at the festival and is now awaiting a second pressing. Full album out in Fall 2025.