Career
He has had 2 record releases on the Nashville-based Artifex records label, which received national airplay and distribution between 1999 and 2004. His Civil Defense projects have been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal Online and the Washington Post. In March 2012 he was the first person to use an iPAD Keytar, an iPAD with a guitar strap, in a live performance posted to YouTube.
Elliot Levine has toured with Wilson Pickett and Heatwave (Always & Forever/Boogie Nights).
He has opened for Brian McKnight, Freddie Jackson, McCoy Tyner, and Gerald Albright. He has had the #1 song on mp3.com, receiving over 1,000,000 downloads, which was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and Cable News Network. Elliot Levine has four internationally released Civil Defense"son
He has headlined at Blues Alley and the Kennedy Center. His playing has been described by Jazz Times as "showing plenty of talent, though also criticized as having "feather-weight play against heavy-leaden Rhythm & Blues backdrops".
In 2003, he scored the music to an Emmy nominated documentary, "Teens in Between".
His music was also used on "Inside the National Basketball Association" on Turner Broadcasting System (television Channel) (2001), as well as an independent college movie, "Friends With Benefits" (2003). He is also featured on the worldwide Karvavena release "The Abduction of the Art of Noise".