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STEREOtype - Yoni Wolf (Why?)

With all the holidays, I’ve had little to no time to go chasing after musical Jews, but the wait is over: here’s a new STEREOtype Q&A with Why? vocalist and brain-genius Yoni Wolf.  Yoni’s band, part of California’s Anticon Collective, spins lovely and forlorn indie folk that occasionally skirts the line between rock and hip hop.  Why?’s new record Eskimo Snow dropped last week, and you can grab that masterpiece hereWikipedia is telling me Yoni was born to a pair of ‘Messianic Jews’ (whatever that means) in Cincinnati, and that he discovered his first 4-track in his father’s synagogue.  Let’s see how far that discovery has taken Yoni across the Jew-spectrum.  Onwards:

How many times a week do you speak to your Mother?
I have been living with her for the past two weeks…so, I would say everyday.

Your nose.  Friend or foe?
Non-partisan.
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