Jenny Lewis working with Elvis Costello, more on album

Heaps and piles and loads of musical collaborations have been announced recently. TV on the Radio and The Roots are working on a track together. Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock recently went fishing with The Shins' James Mercer. The Grammy Awards live broadcast on Sunday will feature John Fogerty, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis rocking out together. The list goes on and on.

According to a Stereogum post, we can now add Jenny Lewis to the list. The Rilo Kiley singer has holed up at Sound City studios in the San Francisco Valley to work on the follow-up to her solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat. If the location sounds familiar, it could be because it's the very same studio where Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded Damn the Torpedoes and Nirvana recorded Nevermind. No pressure, Miss Lewis! Perhaps some sort of strange, spiritual collaboration will ensue, because surely the Sound City walls could tell more than a few stories. (After all, Elton John, Rage Against the Machine, Neil Young, Slayer and others far too numerous to mention make up the studio's client list.)

As for real-life, carbon-based musical cooperation, a number of notable folks have stopped by to contribute guest vocals. Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward (they of She & Him), Elvis Costello and the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson all contribute to the new, currently-untitled record. Lewis' boyfriend Jonathan Rice and Interpol touring member/indie-rock hired gun Farmer Dave have also helped out with the process.

Precious little else is known about the album at the moment, but expectations are high following Rabbit Fur Coat. Despite all the reported collaborations, no word yet if the Watson Twins will once again be involved.

UPDATE: Pitchfork has reported that Lewis' publicist calls the list of collaborators above both "misleading" and "inaccurate," but fails to clarify either of those descriptors. We'll keep you posted when we know more.

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