JDub Records

Our dear friend The Wailing Wall has 2 shows in Brooklyn this week, one tonight and one on Thursday.  Check ‘em out:

TONIGHT (2/8) @ Death By Audio
8PM / ALL AGES
The Wailing Wall (full band), Horse’s Mouth, Your Nature, Blastoff!

Thursday (2/11) @ Bar Matchless
7PM/ FREE
Vol. 1 Brooklyn & Gigantic Present: Greatest Three-Minute Rock N’ Roll Story Ever
20+ Readers (including Aaron Hartman of Girls in Trouble) with a special set by The Wailing Wall

Thanks to Heeb for tipping me off to The Moshiach Times Band, a group of teenybopper hunks out of Miami.  Look at that skinny jean/Tzitzit combo!

Say what you will about the National Prayer Breakfast and its backers, but the news from JTA is that President Obama brought AWJS into the room in his remarks about Haiti relief:

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama cited the American Jewish World Service among groups that exemplify “God’s grace, and the compassion and decency of the American people.”

Obama, addressing the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, spoke of recent efforts to bring relief to Haitians after the island nation’s devastating earthquake.

God’s grace, he said, was expressed in Haiti “through multiple faith-based efforts. By evangelicals at World Relief. By the American Jewish World Service. By Hindu temples, and mainline Protestants, Catholic Relief Services, African-American churches, the United Sikhs. By Americans of every faith, and no faith, uniting around a common purpose, a higher purpose.”

Go Jews!

Vanity Fair recently published a list of the top earners in Hollywood for 2009 and six out of the top ten names not surprisingly are Jewish:  Bay, Spieldberg, Phillips, Stiller, Abrams and Bruckheimer.  The list only includes people attached to the creative process (Producers, Directors and Actors) so there is no telling what the list might have looked like were agents, managers and executives also included.  With Jewish culture’s historical ties to Vaudville, the Yiddish Theater, Literature etc, it’s not surprising that many people of Jewish background have chosen to enter “the industry” and been successful at it.

For all you producers / DJs Remixers out there: here’s a nice collection of 8 acapellas (vocal track only) of recent Israeli Hip Hop tracks. Courtesy of the artists themselves & Cookedlabs.com. Download and enjoy!

1.) Tachles - Nevermind

2.) Tacles ft. Elparver - If i had a Shekel

3.) Tachles - Brother Brother

4.) Ruff ft. Sagol 59 - Turning the page

5.) Lukatch ft. Ortega - Time for changes

6.) T.O.B ft. Ortega - Rookie of the year

7.) Ortega - Hopes

8.) Ortega - The right time

The folks over at Shemspeed are gearing up for their Winter Fest celebration at Southpaw this year. The bill features a fairly eclectic assortment of artists and as always I’m sure there will be a slew of special guests.  Peep the lineup below and snag tix before they sell out.

SHEMSPEED WINTER FEST

Wednesday, February 10th @ Southpaw (125 5th Ave., Brooklyn)
7:30pm - 11:30pm
Featuring: Lion of Ido, Dreams in Static (CD Release Party), Six Point Star, and Pitom

Tickets are $10 BUY NOW
more info at southpaw or shemspeed

and i found this video while trolling the shemspeed site:

Between August 2008 to August 2009, Mochilla and VTech brought you an exceptional array of musical events that pushed the boundaries of today’s music. Ethiopian jazz, Colombian Funk, Brasilian Folk, Jazz, fusion and Hip-Hop – where elders met with youth, where every idea is good, where mistakes are just part of the process and where the audience is the judge.  In “Hear The World,” Eric Coleman (Mochilla), mixes the very best musical moments of the year into one completely exclusive mix CD taken from the recordings made.

Hear The World is an amazing mix of sounds from every corner of the globe and whether you are fan of “world music” or not, you can’t help but nod your head, tap your feet and groove along to these songs.

Featuring: Mulatu, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra, Arthur Verocai, Azymuth, Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, Karriem Riggins, Jackson Conti, and Exile.

Hear The World DOWNLOAD

[Via VTech]

JDub is bringing the craziness this year with a sweaty punk rock inspired Purim bash at CSV Cultural Center on the Lower East Side of NYC. After checking out a megillah reading,  put on a costume, head down to CSV, grab some drinks and rock out to the sounds of Ultragrrrl (DJ set), The Shondes, Can!!Can, DJ Matt Elkin of the So So Glos and the one and only Gangsta Rabbi.

JDub Presents: Hamanbashin (a purim party) sponsored by Tablet Magazine
Saturday, February 27th @ CSV Cultural Center (107 Suffolk St. at Rivington St., LES)
Costume Contest | 9 pm-1 am | $10 advance, $15 at the door
Buy tickets: www.jdubrecords.org/tickets

Performances by:
Ultragrrrl (DJ Set)
The Shondes
DJ Matt Elkin (of the So So Glos)
Can!!Can
Gangsta Rabbi
+ Patrick of Can!!Can and Punk Torah will channel Sid Vicious to reinterpret the Megillah!!

HAMANBASHIN ON FACEBOOK

Additional Support provided by the AJWS-AVODAH Partnership

Dj Spooky + Sussan Deyhim: Azadi (The New Complexity)

Acclaimed DJ, producer, poet, documentarian and activist DJ Spooky is back with his latest project called The Secret Song (album + DVD). The album isnʼt really an album: itʼs a manifesto about the place of history in our modern collaged, scrambled, sampla-delic to the core, mega info overloaded digital culture. With references  from Thorstein Veblenʼs “Theory of the Leisure Class” and John Maynard Keynes classic in the field of economics “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” over to hip hopʼs relationship to psychoanalysis and a la Edward Bernayʼs concept of the “manufacture of consent” – DJ Spookyʼs new album is a groundbreaking meditation on hip hop and electronic musics relationship to philosophy, economics, and the science of sound.  Special guests on the record include Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, The Jungle Borthers, The Coup, Rob Swift (The Executioners), spoken word poet Mike Ladd and many more!

This is the first track off the record called Azadi and features renowned Iranian artist Sussan Deyhim. The term Azadi simply means “Freedom” in Farsi. The song “Azadi” is an interpretation of an ancient poem by the legendary poet Rumi, sung by Sussan Deyhim, with prouduction by Dj Spooky.

“The Secret Song” will be out in October, 2009. For a translation of the lyrics and more info about the project, head to:
http://djspooky.com/art/the_secret_song.php

Annette from Golem tipped me off to this Craigslist ad:

Looking for Rabbi Versed in DARK TALMUDIC ARTS to create GOLEM

One Rabbi versed in the Dark Talmudic Arts to create one Golem for household of three. Golem will perform rudimentary household chores such as dishes & sweeping, basic Math Tutoring for our daughter in 3rd grade and basic household security. Golem must be obedient and fairly unobtrusive on our every-day lives.

We will supply all materials needed (clay, twigs, calfskin parchment, etc) needed to create the Golem. All you need to do is use your magical ancient Rabbinic skills to animate said Golem!

Please note! We are looking for a Rabbi to create a Golem: an anthropomorphic being created from intimate matter from Jewish folk-lore, NOT Gollum: a former Hobbit turned into monster and looking for “precious”. This is important! We have no interest in living with Gollum. We want a Golem. Please respond, serious inquiry only.