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“The SoCalled Movie” + Performance in San Francisco
JDub recording artist SoCalled, had a movie made about him called “The SoCalled Movie,” and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will be screening the masterpiece as well as hosting an exclusive live performance by SoCalled following the screening.
Shot partly in Socalled’s Montreal neighborhood, where Hasidic Jews and hipsters crowd the sidewalks, and following him on tour through New York, France and an emotionally spiritual trip back to his ancestral home of the Ukraine, The “Socalled” Movie is a dynamic, kaleidoscopic portrait of an iconoclastic artist at the peak of his powers.
Tuesday, July 27th at 9:15PM
The Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street, San Francisco
Special Live Performance Featuring Socalled and singer Katie Moore following Castro screening
Saturday, August 7th at 9:15PM
The Roda Theatre (at Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
2025 Addison St. Berkeley
For tickets and more information, click here
To view a trailer for the film, click here
Socalled’s Ghettoblaster and The Socalled Seder are available from JDub
The 2010 SFJFF runs July 24-August 9 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and San Rafael.
Tickets, passes and schedule at WWW.SFJFF.ORG.
Josh Kun Digs for Dawn
Author, musicologist and member of the esteemed Idlesohn Society for Musical Preservation Josh Kun has made a dope little mixtape in support of Dawn 2010, the Tablet Magazine sponsored, May 15th late night party in San Francisco, celebrating Shavuot.
Kun’s mix is a deep dig into the crates of vintage and archival recordings sitting right next to more modern dance tracks with a few more mind-blowing gems sprinkled in between, with all the tracks pulling from a different corner of the globe with a heavy pulse on that Jewish tip.
The mix includes tracks from the famed Barry Sisters, funked out Jewish soul music from Slim Gaillard, Musica de Latina, a ton of classic African tunes, some crazy Hava Negilah rendition and a bunch of JDub artists including Soulico, Balkan Beat Box and The Sway Machinery. The mix closes out with a banger from Mexican Institute of Sound, who happens to be homies with Kun’s beau.
All around worth a listen, head over to our friends at Tablet Magazine to listen to this exclusive mix.
92 year-old Irving Fields, who has a few tracks on this mix has been writing hit songs since the 1920’s. He recorded over 90 albums, including his biggest LP hit, Bagels and Bongos. JDub recording artist SoCalled suggested he write a song about Youtube, and he did. check it below
The Socalled Movie: Out Now
The Socalled Movie (trailer above) premiered this week at SXSW and is now available to rent on YouTube.
For fans who have never checked out Socalled’s crazy video for “You Are Never Alone” it can be seen here. The song is from the 2007 release Ghettoblaster.
A SoCalled Documentary
YouTube is premiering a documentary about SoCalled on March 16th. It looks absolutely wild — and features Katie Moore, Fred Wesley, C-Rayz Walz, David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Arkady Gendler, Benjamin Steiger Levine, D-Shade, Gonzales and Irving Fields. You can check out the trailer above.
Sprite is Never Alone
We were really excited for Ben Steiger Levine, the director of SoCalled’s “You Are Never Alone” video, when we heard he was tapped to do the new Sprite commercial with JDub favorite Drake.
But when we finally saw the video, there was a little something we couldn’t ignore:
Look familiar?
JDub Radio App!
Calling all you iPhone and iPod touch heads out there, the JDub Radio App is now available!! For the low price of $1.99, you can have instant and unlimited access to 100+ streaming tracks from the JDub Records archive directly on your iPhone. Features tracks from Balkan Beat Box, Michael Showalter, Golem, Soulico, DeLeon and all your other favorite JDub artists.
Download the app HERE
Socalled: (Rock the) Belz: (Rock the) Video
Check out the brand new video for Socalled’s song “(Rock the) Belz” from the album “Ghettoblaster” available from the JDub Store or iTunes
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Directed by Kaveh Nabatian and produced by Sach Baylin-Stern.
So Much New Music to Buy, Where to Start!!
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are excited for the new releases dropping this week; Clay Aiken, Leonard Cohen, Diana Krall, Keith Urban and much more unenjoyable bellowing. What’s really good is the insane amount of releases and pre-orders coming from JDub Records, the very blog you are reading right now. See below for some must have records this month.
Balkan Beat Box - Nu Made (Remixes) Myspace
Dance-floor ready remix album with stand out remixes from Nickodemus, Soulico, Dub Gabriel & more. Available on CD ($7.99) and LP ($11.99) Also, BBB’s dynamic 2nd album, Nu Med is now available on vinyl. Grab it for only $9.99
Balkan Beat Box - Adir Adirim (Nickodemus Remix)
The Sway Machinery - Hidden Melodies Revealed Myspace
Indie supergroup featuring members of BBB, Yeah Yeah Yeah, Antibalas and Arcade Fire. Available on CD ($7.99), LP ($9.99) and the CD+LP combo ($17.99) All pre-orders come with free button and poster!
The Sway Machinery - Tell it all to me
SoCalled - The SoCalled Seder Myspace
Mini hip-hop symphony using break-beats and Jewish samples to re-create Passover Seder. Special Low Passover price of $6.99 or buy 2 for $12 or go for the gold and scoop up the Afikomen Prize Pack which includes the Seder, SoCalled - Ghettoblaster and Golem Citizen Boris for only $17.99
SoCalled - Who Knows One
The Wailing Wall - 7″ Myspace
Grab this limited release yellow 7″ from very recent JDub signing, The Wailing Wall. Freak-folk at its best led by musical mastermind Jesse Rifkin and his traveling band of musicians. Only $5 for the 7”
The Wailing Wall - For my Baby Brother
This Seder’s for you!
SoCalled - Who Knows One
Whether you roamin for the afikomen / chopping charoset, or just flowin. If your shankbone aint roasted / or the bitter herbs make you cry / head to the webstore and The SoCalled Seder you should buy!
Passover’s coming on April 8th. This Seder’s for you. Socalled re-imagines the Seder as a hip hop opus fit for party, iPod, or your Seder itself.
- SoCalled Seder CD - $6.99 BUY NOW -
- 2 Copies of SoCalled Seder CD - $11.99 BUY NOW
- Afikomen Prize Pack (SoCalled Seder, SoCalled-Ghettoblaster + Golem-Citizen Boris) $17.99 BUY NOW