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The music publication NME is featuring this Can!!Can video for the song “Wife to Die” from their JDub digital release, Monsters & Healers. Download the album today!

The Huffington Post recently interviewed Jesse Rifkin on the Wailing Wall and reviewed his new album, The Low Hanging Fruit.

Joshua Stanton writes:

Within the mellifluous chords of The Wailing Wall’s indie music, we hear the discord of a ukulele jamming with a guitar, a trumpet vying for airtime with a bass, and a harmonium and pipe organ on stage with a trash can. This beautiful, organic pandemonium again puts us in touch with the creative origins of Jewish prayer.

That’s Jewish rebellion at its best. That’s real ‘bad.’

An interview from the Pitchfork Music Festival, which according to Michael Showalter was the best music festival in Chicago that week.

Gangsta Rabbi - Sunrise Sunset  DOWNLOAD

Check out the interview The NY Blueprint conducted with everyone’s favorite Comptroller by day, punk rocker by night, neither gangsta, nor rabbi, the one and only Gangsta Rabbi

Steve Lieberman is neither a gangsta nor a rabbi. But he is a tough punk rocker who says his faith in God has helped him get through some tumultuous trials and tribulations, including a short stint in a psychiatric ward, losing his house in a fire, and three failed marriages. He’s also started his own sect of Judaism. And after recording 16 albums, his 17th effort “DikTator 17,” helped him get signed to JDub Records for a digital release.

Read  the Full interview

The Wailing Wall’s new record, The Low Hanging Fruit, is officially out today!

Time Out New York called the record “open-eared, with sounds plucked from every patch of earth.”

Get it from iTunes or Amazon.

Want to try it before you buy it?  AOL Music is currently streaming the whole CD.  Listen here.

Above, watch the band performing “Bones Become Rainbows” during the recent CD release show in NYC!

Today, George Robinson at The Jewish Week published a lovely and very thoughtful column discussing The Wailing Wall’s new record, The Low Hanging Fruit.  You are going to have to wait until 6/8 for that, but until then, read the article HERE!

“The Low Hanging Fruit,” like its predecessor, is a fascinating blend of deeply felt, intelligent wordplay, and an eclectic but convincing amalgam of Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young, updated to the lo-fi indie scene and flavored with echoes of Bjork, and Sufi Qawwali and Hindu Kirtan as well. The result never feels forced or contrived, and Rifkin says that he’s trying to achieve the same level of spontaneity as when he performs live.”

Mary Collins from Can!!Can talks about their upcoming album on JDub, her love of NYC, and a great story about growing up in the mountains of Tennessee (skip ahead to 16:59 for the interview)…

Our friends over at MTVU are once again showing off their excellent judgment by interviewing Jesse Rifkin of The Wailing Wall.  They are also offering a video of Jesse performing live in central park, which I have included above, and have premiered NEW single “Dandelion”, which you can get HERE.

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.

Impose Magazine is running the video (included above) of The Wailing Wall doing an impromptu performance of “Bones Become Rainbows” while they were out in LA.  Check that full post here!

“I also remember dudes.  I remember saying that “Dudes Doin’ What Dudes Do” would be like the Revolution Summer of 1985;  Few believed me, but today I got my first glimpse of the influence the phrase had on popular culture via this video of Jesse Rifkin of The Wailing Wall and his buddies jamming in a kitchen, and uttering the holy phrase that is threatening to make a comeback in 2010: “Dudes being dudes.”