CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Animal Bikes and Chess Move Cartel present: "In this episode of Live from the Streets (3 Block, part 2) , first we caught up with Action Bronson outside S.O.B.'s in NYC. He was taking a smoke break after making a bunch of Latka's at Peter Rosenberg (from hot 97)'s Hanukkah party but was cool enough to hook us up with a drop. After that weheaded back to Philly to finish with Thomas at the 3 Block. This timehis words were a little darker but still encouraging and inspiring.Thank [...]
[photo courtesy of Eardrum NYC ] We are fortunate the longtime friend of the site and part-time contributor neild was able to capture the Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Night 5 / Christmas Eve show this year. neild reports: As soon as I spotted Tara Key limbering up her guitar on Saturday, I had a good feeling about Night 5 of this year's Yo La Tengo Hanukkah run. Having seen Tara many times with her excellent band Antietam , as well as sitting [...]
[Photo from night one courtesy of EarDrumNYC ] That life is short is one of those well-worn cliches. It's also true. Knowing that this would be the only Yo La Tengo Hanukkah show I would see this year - and knowing that YLT frontman Ira Kaplan might not have been able to make it at all - that old cliche came to mind in full force. This is a band that consistently holds nothing back - a band that, whenever its career is over, will wind up its run with no regrets. The same can [...]
DOWNLOAD: Holy Ghost! - "It's Not Over" (MP3) Holy Ghost! at Terminal 5 in 2010 ( more by Vincent Cornelli ) There's already a number of New Year's Eve options in NYC, but if you're looking for something a little fancier, Le Bain and DFA Records are presenting a party at The Standard on 12/31 with DJ sets by Holy Ghost! , Jacques Renault , Tim Sweeney , and [...]
[photo courtesy of Bryan Bruchman and brooklynvegan ] A close brush with mortality often offers a rare opportunity for perspective and retrospection. It was twenty-seven years ago that the first Yo La Tengo show took place at Maxwell's , and Dave Rick was the bass player on that night. For Night 4 of Hanukkah 2011, Dave joined YLT for the entire set. As a result, the setlist dug all the way back to the early YLT, including their very first release, the 73 single "The River of Water", along with [...]
by Nicole Audrey Spector How a guy who once pulled over the car upon espying a black glitter rosary on my neck (I was 12 and the rosary was from Claire's Accessories) was ever impelled to give the world a self-declared "Christmas Gift" is ironic. Yet my dad, in making A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector was hardly a grinch won over. I don't exaggerate when I say that he'd rather have a tick burrowed in his ear than a sentimental Christian on his back. Or a sentimental Jew for that [...]
[photo courtesy of Bryan Bruchman and brooklynvegan ] Its the season for giving, and virtually every year Yo La Tengo gives Hanukkah presents to its fans. The eight annual Maxwell's shows are a time for surprise openers, special guests, rare songs, and unique covers. But this year is special for another reason entirely. Following a serious and recent health scare for Ira Kaplan, there was a potential that the shows would need to be cancelled. But Ira vowed to play all eight shows, and after a medical clearance the [...]
by Polly Bresnick I'm half Jewish, half Christmas. Jew-ISH. My family lights the menorah when we remember to, usually uncertain of which night we're on, and we mumble out the prayer that even my father barely remembers, with a crescendoing finale of SHALL HANUKKAH! Or is it with a "Ch-"? Does it have an "h" at the end? (I'm barely "culturally Jewish," which is to say that I'm not really religious at all.) In grammar school I learned that, for Hanukkah, kids traditionally received eight presents — one on each of the holy, candle-lit nights. Also, [...]
SPEAK! drops "Song 4 of 8 .... "Well Whaddup Katy" produced by my helm syd of the @intanetz" for his Hanukkah song giveaway. It's another dope track from SPEAK!, check it below...
There are Christmas songs and there are Hanukkah songs. And then there's the category of songs about the Jewish experience of Christmas. For example, there's the TV Funhouse video that appeared on SNL, " Christmas for the Jews ." And then you've got Dr. Dyke & The Cinnamon Cowboys expressing a view of Christmas in Los Angeles, as experienced by a lonely Jew. Dr. Dyke is the alter-ego of actor Kevin Berntson . A somewhat more sinister view is offered by Adam Goren. Back in the Nineties, Goren went from the punk band [...]
by Ariella Stok It was a classically Semitic combination of chutzpah and horniness that led Lawrence Ira Kahn, a white Jewish kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn to become Larry Harlow, a king of salsa, a musical movement that combined Cuban son with New York bebop, and served as much to fuel the dance floors of nightclubs numbering in the hundreds during its heyday in the early 1970s, as to define the cultural voice of New York's influx of Latino immigrants—mostly Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican—that began in the 1950s. Harlow not only was the leader of one of the [...]
today in NYC * Yale Strom @ Barbes * Caspa @ Webster Hall * The Present @ The Stone * Matthew Avedon @ Zebulon * Underground Horns @ Barbes * Gilbert Gottfried @ Caroline's * Roberto Carlos Lange @ The Stone * No Bra & more @ Santos Party House * Hungry March Band @ Brooklyn Bowl * Mandatory Office [...]
Dedicated readers of the Boogie Woogie Flu (which is to say, you people, with too much time on your hands) who could tell you right off that if (1) "Good Rockin' Tonight" (2) "Rocket 88" (3) "Rock Around the Clock" (4) "That's Alright, Mama" and (5) "Maybellene" have anything common, it's that, at one time or another, some music critic (which is to say, someone with too much time on his or her hands) has put them forth as candidates for "first rock and roll song." Now, [...]
Night 2 of SPEAK!'s non Kosher Hanukkah music give away brings us "Highly Unlikely" produced by Afta1. It's another dope release from SPEAK!, and I'm loving how he's actually putting out some really well done tracks for his multiple day release, most of these things consist of a bunch of mediocre songs. Check the latest track below, and be on the lookout for his third release to drop probably later tonight...
Tonight was the second night of Hanukkah, so I'm a little behind in posting some appropriate songs. In the words of my old joke, "…Hanukkah songs (a.k.a. Chanukah, Hannukah, Hanukah, Chanuka, Chanukkah, Hanuka, Channukah, Hanukka, Hanaka, Haneka, Hanika and Khanukkah — so don't worry, you can't spell it wrong)." First, an instrumental from Portland band, Calamity Jane, a legendary female punk rock band. It was made up of Marci Martinez on drums, Joanna Bolme on guitar, and sisters Gilly Ann Hanner on guitar and vocals, and Megan Hanner on bass. The band operated from 1989 to 1992, breaking [...]
by Jesse Jarnow There's no real sport in arguing the semeticism of David Berman, who named his band the Silver Jews, and very publicly rediscovered Judaism himself after becoming sober around 2004. "Ain'tcha heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews," he'd sung on 2005's Tanglewood Numbers. When the 15-year running outfit started to perform live for the first time in 2006, Berman brought them to Israel, where he was filmed at the Wailing Wall, wearing tefillin and weeping. One doesn't have to go hunting for it. Unlike Bob Dylan or Lou Reed or Neil [...]
New Music for X-Mas Hanukkah Fun: Anytime is the Right Time. Michael J. Epstein & Sophia Cacciola - Eight More Days of Hanukkah! "Hi Sophia." "Hi Michael." "I sure with every holiday were Hanukkah." "Let's make it happen!" When [...]
buzzfeed : Hey girl, enjoy your festival of lights. Not true, latke-making is an art that can lead to failure.
by Ben Greenman Phil Ochs was born five months before Bob Dylan and died sixteen months before Elvis Presley, and that tells you all you need to know about him, and that tells you nothing. Ochs was an earnest activist, and a rebel, and a satirist, and a town crier, and a crack-up. He built and dismantled personae with such rapidity that it's sometimes difficult to find the real person who, in theory, provided the foundation on which those personae were built and dismantled. Born in Texas, raised in Ohio, gifted musically and culturally omnivorous, [...]
Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell's 2010 ( more by Andrew St. Clair ) GREAT NEWS *12/20-*12/27 The 8 Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo (on-sale Friday 10/28 at noon) *12/20 Night One Buy Tickets Here! *12/21 Night Two Buy Tickets Here! *12/22 Night Three Buy Tickets Here! *12/23 Night Four Buy Tickets Here! *12/24 Night Five Buy Tickets Here! [...]
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