JDub Records

The new JDub Webstore is here and it’s better than ever. We’ve teamed up with Insound/White Label to bring you the easiest and best in online shopping. We’ve added free downloads, new releases and our full catalog available in all formats. We are also proud to announce that all of our releases are now available in digital format for only $8.99 each (that’s $1 less than iTunes).  So, head over to store.jdubrecords.org to check it out and also keep your eyes peeled for new releases and free music to be updated regularly.  I’m sure there is something for everyone at the jdub webstore, no matter how you are!!

Bouncing Souls - The Freaks, The Nerds and The Romantics

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I started recording rap tracks in 1998. In the summer of 2000 small Jerusalem indie label FACT Records released “The Blue Period” and the rest is history. So, on Saturday March 6th, 10pm, i will be celebrating a decade of  Heb-Hop, along with my dear friend and super M.C Rebel Sun (of Coolooloosh fame) and promising newcomers Ruff and DJ Funkay Fish. This will happen at the Cosa Nostra bar/club in Tel Aviv. We’re also celebrating the imminent release of the new Sagol Remixed 2000-2010 compilation album (details tba). Hope to see y’all  there!

For those who can’t wait for the official release of JDub Kids 1st project The Macaroons - Let’s Go Coconuts, have no fear. In celebration of Passover, The Macaroons will be releasing a Passover EP with 5 tracks including 1 exclusive track that will not be featured on Let’s Go Coconuts. The EP celebrates the traditions and more importantly the delicious food that is eaten on Passover. This will be a digital only release and will be available at iTunes and the JDub Webstore on March 16th and proceeded by their full length release, Let’s Go Coconuts on April 6th, 2010.

Tracklisting:
1. Matzoh Ball (Don’t Kick It)
2. Seder Plate
3. Flying on Matzah Brei
4. Elijah
5. Karpas (EP Exclusive)

Sample a track off the EP:
The Macaroons - Matzoh Ball (Don’t Kick It) Download

JDub Kids 1st band The Macaroons are bringing their irresistible melodies, big harmonies and catchy tunes to Los Angeles! What’s inside a mezuzah? Who’s the man we love to boo ? What to do if you drop your matzho ball on the ground ? The Macaroons will answer these important questions and more on Purim in L.A!! So if you’re in the city of Angeles and need some jewish kids music in your life, this is the time and the place!!

The Macaroons Purim Party also featuring StoryTimeFunLand
Sunday February 28, 12:30 pm
@ The Echo (1822 West Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026-3227)
Come in Costume!  Free Sunday Papers & Juice Boxes!!
$8 Single Tickets / $30 Packs of 4 - BUY

Listen to a song off of their upcoming album, Let’s Go Coconuts available from JDub on March 23rd.

The Macaroons -  Haman! Boo!

Do you remember the movie Reality Bites? Have you ever heard the song, “My Sharona”? I’m sure you have and I’m sure you loved it and have rocked out to it at some point. The song was written by the band The Knack, a new wave quartet based in Los Angeles who rose to fame in 1979 when this tune became #1 international hit. Doug Fieger, guitarist, singer, and co-writer for the band died Sunday at the young age of 57.

A few less known facts: Sharona was Sharona Alperin, Fieger’s 17 year old girlfriend, who like every other member of the band was Jewish. The song has been parodied by Weird Al Yankovic and was revealed to be on George W. Bush’s presidential iPod.

Rare version of Nirvana covering My Sharona:

Rare demo version of My Sharona by The Knack:

Check Weird Al’s parody, My Bologna (1979, his first video):

and the official video for the song:

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!

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