On Saturday Oct. 15 Idan Raichel and India Arie came to Oakland as part of the annual SF Jazz festival. They performed songs from their collaborative album “Open Door,” to be released in the spring of 2012.
Monday August 1 Israeli singer Ravid Kahalani and his nine-member blues band, Yemen Blues, rocked the Independent in San Francisco. Kahalani sings in both his native Hebrew and his family's Yemeni dialect of Arabic, fusing jazz, Middle Eastern melodies, and funky blues into one modern brew.
Some big Jewy music news this week! Chasidic rapper, Y-love’s “See Me” EP hits stores today, as does the second Girls in Trouble record “Half You Half Me” (Jdub).
Check out Y-love’s new video (and get the E.P.) here.
Latter-day Saints LOVE Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Blame it on the show's witty lyrics and catchy tunes, the blend of Broadway and Bible, or an affinity for all things Osmond, but Joseph has got to be one of the most frequently produced shows in the State of Utah…
The always-excellent Jdub act Sway Machinery has a sparkly new video up this week. The song "Gawad Teriamou" is off the bands forthcoming album The House of Friendly Ghosts, Vol. 1
Remember when superfluous boy band music videos clogged up our television sets in ‘90s? Yeah, we sort of, begrudgingly, enjoyed them too. So flashy! So fresh! This awesome new Chanuakah 2010 video courtesy of NCSY…
Finally, comedic Chanukah music videos are here yet again. This one comes courtesy tiny hip hop lovers, Borenstein Boyz. The video, admittedly stolen from Heeb magazine online, features gold chain-wearing preteens rapping “Oy So Amazing.”…
Want to be part of a Y-Love’s new music video? Be’Chol Lashon and Shemspeed Music Group are collaborating to produce the Hasidic rapper’s video for his new song, “This is Unity." The message is clear: Jews come in different shapes and…
Musician Craig Taubman's new album How Good was released this week! Featuring guest vocals by Debbie Friedman, the record boasts 14 tracks of Contemporary Jewish praise music. Taubman also got some musical help from Alberto Mizrahi and YouTube star Michelle Citrin (she of…
Stepping into Saul's Deli is like stepping back in time to a simpler, warmer place. At least that's how it was last Thursday when the restaurant hosted a klezmer night. To be honest, I didn't know what to expect, but my eperience was far from underwhelming.
Early head’s up – fantastic Jdub act The Sway Machinery is due to return to San Francisco next month. The occasionally frenetic, cantorial-meets-blues band, fronted by Jeremiah Lockwood, plays July 16 at the Great American Music Hall.
You know how sometimes there are actual DAYS in between blog posts here in Jew Tunes land and you just can't take it? You want MORE Jew Tunes but you don't know where to look?
It is almost that time of the year again — vintage family seder plates, lots’o’matzah, and plenty of kosher wine — that’s right folks, I’m talking about Passover.
And the music world is bringing us a crop of new and revisited…
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