JDub Records

I can see those JDub CDs sitting in your virtual shopping cart, waiting to be purchased. Hey, I get it! It’s been a busy spring at JDub, you have 5 new albums to check out, and they are all awesome. Tough decisions…

Allow me to solve your problem: now when you donate $25 to the I AM JEWCY fundraising campaign, you get a FREE album download in JDub’s store. Get that album you’ve had your eye on, plus donate to a great cause.

-Donate $100, get a FREE album download plus a Jewcy t-shirt.

-Donate $500, get a FREE download, a Jewcy t-shirt, and your name listed on the Supporters page of Jewcy.com

-Donate $1,000, and you’re baller. And you get the entire JDub Records catalogue. And you’re baller. Way to donate to a good cause, amigo.

A donation to Jewcy means we keep bringing you creative, fun, thought-provoking Jewish content year ’round. Yes, we cover everything from interfaith families and Israel to sex and bacon. And we can only do this with your help.

JDub adopted Jewcy almost two years ago. We were thrilled to expand our mission and we are proud of it’s growth thus far. Please help us keep writing about Jewish cat costumes, 100 great works of Jewish fiction, and ways to make your seder not suck. Donate today!

Listen, we thought about this long and hard. How could we make Jewltide 8 the most successful Jewltide party JDub fans have ever attended? We tried to hire the Maccabeats, but they were mostly underage. Inception was discussed– we plant the idea to attend Jewltide in every Jewish New Yorker’s head, and make them believe they thought of it themselves. Aaron led a test-run on Kanye, but it only partially worked… he put jewels in his teeth instead.

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Festival de Luces is JDub’s OPEN BAR Hanukkah party for our West Coast supporters! It’s presented to you flamenco, dreidel, tapas, gelt, margarita lovers by Jewcy.com! Open Margarita Bar for the first HOUR, free donuts, and a DREIDEL PINATA! Dios Mio!

Enjoy DJ LL BEANS (aka Jason Diamond, Editor-In-Chief of Jewcy.com) spinning Funk and Soul.

Join us for free on December 5th at:
El Cid
4212 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029

3-6 PM

Made possible with support from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.

December 8th marks the kickoff event for our monthly OPEN BAR/FREE BUFFET party taking place at Bollyhood, one of the coolest low-key spots in the Mission District of San Francisco (this time, on the last night of Hanukkah).

Milk and Honey is OPEN BAR featuring our signature cocktail plus beer, wine and sangria, and a FREE BUFFET provided by Bissap Baobab - all while supplies last, so be sure to arrive early!

Special guests for our kickoff event include all-star vocalist Audio Angel, Honeyknuckles and Mama Feelgood of Sanguine Soul Radio, Israeli percussionist Gavri Friesem and live painter Delvin Kenobe.

Resident DJ Matt Haze spins hip-hop, soul, reggae, funk, dub, gypsy, African, Middle Eastern and other sounds from around the world.

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Mideast Tunes is a new website that is dedicated to providing a platform for emerging musicians in the Middle East. Their aim is to encourage, inspire and expose talented young artists across the region. After sleuthing around the site and checking out some seriously dope music ranging from arabic hip-hop to doom-crust punk to thrash metal and everything in between i noticed something.  That something was also noticed and pointed out by my homie Jason Diamond over at Jewcy.com, there is absolutely no music from Israel.

Mr. Diamond wrote a letter to the editors of mideastunes.com asking for the opportunity for Jewcy to submit some Israeli artists to the site, and they have obliged. So, we are asking folks to submit your favorite Israeli musicians for a mix that we want to submit to Mideastunes.com for their consideration. Head over to jewcy.com and leave your suggestions in the comments.

Also, be sure to check out some of my favorites from the site:
Kabul Dreams from Tunisia
Chesme3vom from Tehran
Deen from United States

Our comrades over at Jewcy are running a pretty serious featured entitled “Where are Hughes’ Jews?”, focused on the pronounced lack of Jewish characters in John Hughes’ films, despite their deeply Jewish settings. You can read that full article here.

“If anybody has ever lived or visited towns like Evanston, Skokie, Buffalo Grove, or Highland Park–all neighborhoods Hughes used as locations for Hughes fictional “Shermer, Il.”– you’d quickly realize the North Shore is an incredibly Jewish place.  While it’s usually noted that the fifth largest American Jewish population is located in Chicago, but I bet many of the people documented as part of ‘Chicago’ really live in the surrounding suburbs.  If I’m right, and that’s the case, why are there no Ferris Buellerbaum’s, Jake Ryanstein’s, or Duckie Cohen’s in any of Hughes’ films?”

The secret about Team JDub is that every last one of us is a total hopeless, mushy romantic.  Seriously!  We love love, so you can see why we definitely love Jewcy’s current Valentine’s Day content.  Check it out!

The Jew And The Condom

Being a Guy, Nora Ephron, and Valentine’s Day Plans

Jewcy is running a slide show of creatures from Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s forthcoming book The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals.  Essentially, if you’ve ever wondered whether that minotaur stew you picked up at Whole Foods has an OU, this would be the book for you.  Check it out HERE.

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

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 (http://tinyurl.com/jewltidetickets)
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