I finally got to check out the Birthright Monologues. Our old friend Vanessa “Hebrew Mamita” Hidary and Shemspeed blogger, Farrah Fidler are both heavily involved in organizing so we had to show our support. I really had no idea how blown away by the performances I would be, some were more to my taste [...]
Shemspeed founder, Erez Safar, was part of the first year of The Jewish Week’s “36 under 36″. Now in year two, they chose another worthy Shemspeeder. Who else, but Y-Love. Also among the list is our good friends Isaac and Seth Galena of Jewish humor/where to find your apt if you are Jewish [...]
Oh the joys of social media. Whenever I see something that came out years ago, I always wonder why didn’t I see that? But I’m still really happy that Filipino-Jewish poet Eliyahu Enriquez posted this video on his blog. The video is a clip from the full-length documentary Naf - A Street [...]
This is a guest post from Dov Rosenblatt, lead singer and guitarist of the band Blue Fringe which he wrote for myjewishlearning.com. He and Diwon just recorded a version of “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem, for Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, which you can listen to or download right here.
Below, Dov writes about his own Yom [...]
Frank London’s A Night in the Old Marketplace is a “folk opera,” a 90-minute musical re-imagining of I.L. Peretz’s sprawling 1907 supernatural drama. The score mixes folk, jazz, classical, rock and world beats with a dose of Kurt Weill cabaret. Beware, the players are some of the most versatile musicians, whose credits include salsa, radical [...]
Where as many MCs represent their area code, Kosha Dillz represents his homeland in a strong and sometimes playful way. On “Kol Hakavod Lirkod” he puts his money where his mouth is singing all about Israel in Hebrew. The song is one of the many singles that will be coming out off his debut solo [...]
Tonight, April 28th, 5 Iyar, marks the 61st anniversary of Israel’s independence. Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, albeit with less barbecues and more reflection, is the day before Israel’s Independence Day. In a country as small as Israel, nearly everyone shares in the feelings of collective loss; the memory of lost loved ones, [...]
If you remember Ofra Haza as being the Yemenite pop export from Israel, then you have fond memories of listening to her while she was still alive and well. We miss her and still bump her “Im Nin’Alu” back from 1984 as well as “Paid in Full” (Seven Minutes of Madness - the [...]
Diwon & Dov’s “HaTikvah” came out today for Yom HaAtzmaut. The words to this song were written in 1886 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia. The melody was written by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia. But here Diwon & Dov tricked it out in the lab.
It’s pretty fly and [...]
If you are wondering why the guy flying over to you looks a bit like our favorite director of all time, Spike Jonze…well, it’s because Spike’s real name is Adam Speigel and this dude flying over’s real name is Sam Speigel who is one part of the N.A.S.A. production duo. Yup, they are brothers. [...]
We got a free download for you of the “See you at the party Richter”!!! mixtape. It features the hottest underground artists in Israel. Check the crew; ONILI, LAROZ, PELED, COHEN@MUSHON, LUKATCH, METRO, SUHELL NANFAR and is brought to you by DJ ALARM & ORI SHOCHAT.
Download it here.
אהלן חברים יקרים!
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Y-Love, DeScribe & Diwon behind the scenes from their CBS Documentary shoot! Watch it on CBS June 7th!
also, be on the look out for “The Change EP” and music videos coming out May 12th. Pick up the first two singles on itunes now.
Big ups to David Abitbol, from Jewlicious, for speaking some truth about that ridiculously written article that went up yesterday about Aharit Hayamim. Oh, and the subject above is also all his. We love him…guess he is also a fan of Chuck D and Flav. Check this….
“Sabbath in Jerusalem is always a whirlwind [...]
Back when Meth was the drug of choice and club was the music of choice a band called The Crystal Method was big. Well, they are making a come back and their single “Drown in the Now” features none other than our very own Matisyahu. Matis opens it with his vocal searching, much [...]
New Voices followed Shemspeed and Aharit Hayamim when we did the showcases at Jewlicious Festival and the 92Y in NYC. Here is their nice little write up:
For an audio version of this story, click here.
“We don’t get into politricks, man.” So says Shmuel Caro, the heavily bearded lead guitarist of the Israeli jam-collective [...]
Back when shemspeed.com crashed and we couldn’t blog anything new, Yoseph M, our Seattle blogger joked that the last post that will go down in history was Shemspeed on the Millionaire MatchMaker, well the site is back up and running and to celebrate we are posting about the show once again, check it out, On [...]
Ok, this is crazy. They were going to perform “Change”, but couldn’t memorize the lyrics in time, so they performed Erran Baron Cohen’s “Dreidel Song” because, in their words, “It has Y-Love in it”. Well, check out the video.
p.s. for the real video, click here.
Peter Rosenberg from Hot97, who just did a little “I heart Shemspeed” video sat down with Q-Tip and rapped about Miles Davis for a bit and who is ‘crazy’ which is Q-Tip for ‘amazing’, the list included Joni Mitchell, Thom Yorke, Sly Stone, Run, Grand Master Flash…. ch-ch-check it out.
Help Kosha Dillz play “We the People”, the hottest festival of LA, in the summer withthe likes of Rage Against the Machine Wu Tang and more
1. Go register
2. Sign in with your email and vote 3 stars for Kosha Dillz
3. Place a awesome comment there about how We the People Festival needs him to rock
4. [...]
First off, we love Adam Sandler.…still. Secondly, we are starting to totally crush on Seth Rogen even more now and as far as Jason Schwartzman is concerned, he will always be our indie heart throb. well, we aren’t sure if there are any non Jewish main characters in this film, but we are sure that [...]
So, Y-Love was supposed to be in the Russian Yevreiskiy Mir paper this week. But when we picked it up at news stands he was not only IN the paper (with a full story (and pictures!)), he was ON the paper - the cover photograph! check it out at http://evreimir.com
p.s. for Kosha French (see [...]
After Eprhyme performs at SOBs as part of the Hot97 showcase, Shemspeed takes it to the streets to talk about Unity and how to bring Godlines to the world. This segment went down with Saadya Notik and Y-Love at the Bodega across from SOBs. ch-ch-ch-check it out.
The Jewish Channel, who covers a lot of Shemspeed’s artists, just did a sort of “Downtown Seder” Reviews which included a highlight of Shemspeed’s Darshan and later in the segment, Y-Love makes a cameo talking about macaroons. To see the Darshan performance of “Chad Gad Ya” that they rave about, click here.
France got to take a good look in about 50,000 copies of its latest mag with TI on the cover. Your boy Kosha Dillz got some shine!
Not sure what it says in the actual article, but it looks pretty cool!!
PS. if you do read French we would love for you to come translate with a [...]
A few months ago we reported on the return of Curb Your Enthusiasm, here are the latest developments taken from Eonline Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that she and her famous costars—Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards—began shooting their multiple-episode appearance on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm last month. “It was really fun to [...]
