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Atlanta Loves DeLeon & Girls In Trouble
DeLeon and Girls In Trouble took over the Apache Cafe for the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Footage of the ruckus filmed by me, Patrick A. (Aleph) from the dark art-punk outfit Can!!Can.
Less talk, more rock. Watch these!
DeLeon Played On A Roof
DeLeon had the chance to play on a roof over the weekend, as part of the Rooftop Films series. Also screened was new Jesse Eisenberg flick, Holy Rollers. BrooklynVegan has a ton of photos HERE.
DeLeon and Holy Rollers
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If you’re the kind of person who likes to sit on roofs, listen to Sephardic rock and watch films about Hasidic ecstasy smugglers then have I got the show for you! Tomorrow (Saturday) night, DeLeon will be performing at a Rooftop Film Series screening of Holy Rollers. We play at 8:30pm and the film will begin right afterwords. You should come.
DeLeon Covers Shakira For Charity
DeLeon - Ojos Asi (Shakira cover)
Sometime late last year we were asked if we would donate a song to an Amnesty International compilation being compiled by Buffetlibre to raise money to combat human rights abuses around the world. ”Sure thing” we said. ”How about a cover from the 70s, 80s or 90s?” they said. ”Wow that’s broad. Ok, let’s do a Shakira song” we said. And it was.
So here is the song we did! You can download all 180 songs, many from artists you know and love, for a donation of your choosing at the swanky new website HERE.
DeLeon Tour!
Dan Saks from DeLeon here to share a video I just this minute finished editing. Kevin and I went through a lot of trouble to film ourselves playing racquetball so you, the reader, might get hyped up about our string of shows next week. So please reader, watch the video, get hyped up, and come join us non-virtually for some real life good times.
Love,
Dan
What We Did With Our Winter Vacation
Well, we’re back from vacation, and it’s time to catch you all up on what you might have missed over the break. Here ya’ go:
- The Faster Times included The Sway Machinery and Girls in Trouble in their Best of 2009 Music list.
- The Boston Survival Guide chose Girls in Trouble to include in their 2009 Band Roundup.
- Made Up Disease (MUD) posted a really nice and very thorough ode to JDub, including a whole bunch of our artists, like The Macaroons and Balkan Beat Box.
- Music magazine Blurt included Alicia of Girls in Trouble in their The Artists Have Spoken: Best of 2009 feature.
- JTA’s The Fundermentalist shed a little light on the recent Jdub/Nextbook partnership.
- The Forward listed Soulico and The Sway Machinery as picks on their 2009 Forward Fives list.
- The University of Oregon’s Oregon Voice had a great writeup on Soulico’s Exotic on the Speaker.
- DJ Anjali listed Soulico’s Exotic on the Speaker as part of his Top 5 of 2009 in the Portland Mercury.
- Digital City has a fantastic interview with Dave Schneider of The Macaroons — conducted by Corn Mo’!
- The Sway Machinery is one of LimeWire’s Best of 2009 Staff Picks!
- Jeremiah Lockwood, of The Sway Machinery, published an op-ed in The Forward about the band’s trip to Mali.
- Our friends over at Tablet Mag talk up The Macaroons in a podcast dedicated to the best family-friendly music of 2009.
Last but not least, I’ve posted more photos from Jewltide 7 under the cut! All credit goes to Dan Sieradski.
DeLeon @ Sephardic Music Festival
Here is some footage from DeLeon’s performance at the Knitting Factory during the Sephardic Music Festival. If you’re in New York, you can also check out Dan from DeLeon performing 1 night only with Dan Saks & The Funkadeli All Stars at JDub & Jewcy’s XMAS Eve Jewltide party. Details Here
Happy Hanukkah from DeLeon
Funk Yeah, It’s Jewltide 7!
We’re back with our 7th annual XMas Eve Jewltide party and this year promises to be the funkiest!! It’s going down at Southpaw in Park Slope on December 24th, boasting a fresh set of funk classics by Dan Saks (of DeLeon) & The Funkadeli All-Stars and funky rock n soul beats spun all night courtesy of New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin.
JDub Records & Jewcy Present: Jewltide 7
Thursday, December 24th (Christmas Eve)
@ Southpaw (125 5th Ave)
Featuring:
Dan Saks & The Funkadeli All-Stars
New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin
$10 Advance / $15 at the door (ticketweb.com)
Donuts & Drink Specials!
Doors 8 pm / Show 9 pm
If you don’t have a tree, you don’t have an excuse.
Co-Sponsored by Brooklyn Vegan, Jewish Book Council, and Brooklyn Jews
I’ll Spook You With My Organ This Halloween
I hope you will join me (Daniel of DeLeon) this Halloween at Union Hall in Brooklyn with the spookiest man I know, Tim Fite. I’ll be supplying the eerie organ behind his terrible tales. I’ve seen the show. You will laugh, you will dance, you will be horrified. A message from Tim Fite:
Hello everybody,
It’s that time of year again!!! When the diabetics rise up from their Craft-Matic beds and crawl through the neighborhood begging for treats. That’s right kiddos… it’s October, and Halloween is on it’s way. This means three things for you to note on your calendar.
1. I will be releasing the final album of my free Halloween trilogy on the 31st.
2. I will be celebrating the BLOOD HARVEST with all who care to join me at the Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY on the 31st.
3. I will be digging a very small grave on the 31st.
Of these three things, the most pressing for you is the show at the Union Hall which is shaping up to be a magical night. I will be playing all of the goriest hits from my Halloween albums accompanied by the (blood soaked) [Daniel of DeLeon]. Via Audio will dress up and play their lovely songs under the shadow of cornstalks. BUT, Halloween at the Union Hall is about more than just music. There will be pumpkins to carve, pinatas to smash, apples to bob for (possibly in beer), a costume exchange booth for switching costumes with a friend, hayrides, and a myriad of other spooky treats. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!
For those of you who live far away, get on your broomsticks, and come anyway!!!
I like it raw,
Tim Fite