Shemspeed has the only $15 tickets to the Party and Open Bar Tomorrow night (Thurs) at the BIG Kosher 4 Passover party at Hudson Terrace. We will be closing the sale page at 3pm tomorrow, so go to http://shemspeed.com/passover and we will see you there!
Open 10pm-4am
FULL Kosher 4 Passover Bar AND a 10-11PM Sponsored Tasting [...]
Weird, right after we blog the Y-Love-Kosha Dillz-Diwon-Lady Gaga mash, we find MTV blogging this other Lady Gaga mash with shout outs to Kosha Dillz. ch-ch-ch-eck this out!
Last night Y-Love & Diwon performed with Onili, one of Israel’s most promising new stars, in the midst of a freestyle session with Dugans of Dreams in Static on guitar, Y-Love called Kosha Dillz up to freestyle over some Lady Gaga. ch-ch-ch-check it!
Darshan have dug up some traditional sources and remixed them in a modern retelling of the story found at the end of the Passover Haggadah….
“I new this one kid, from back in the day….”
Listen and download today: darshan.bandcamp.com/track/chad-gadya
more info: The title of Darshan’s first EP — Lishmah (click to purchase) — comes from a [...]
Check out the Photos from the “Harmony” Music Video Shoot! (click here). And if somehow you didn;t see the video, or show everyone you know, check it at www.tinyurl.com/harmonyvid. And yes, DeScribe’s Harmony EP just hit stores this week! Pick up the CD/Download or the signed limited edition, visit Shemspeed Direct, here! [...]
Onili who is fresh off her SXSW tour is making her way up to NY right now, joined by Israeli DJ scenster Ori Shochat, the two will join Y-Love & Diwon at Brooklyn’s Littlefield this saturday night for an insane Mad Decent style Israeli party hosted by Fiona Bloom. We figured, to get you all [...]
While you are consumed with the Matisyahu Remix and voting for Electro Morocco to win 1st place (they are 9th out of over 600 submissions -VOTE HERE), We are pleased to announce the “Cellular Phone” Remix Contest. “Cellular Phone” is Kosha Dillz debut single from his LP, Beverly Dillz which was released this past November [...]
Shemspeed is all over SXSW this year, there will be lots of special guest performances as well as our official showcases below:
SHEMSPEED @ SXSW (South By South West)
feat. Kosha Dillz, Flex Mathews, DJ Balagan and tons of special guests!
A Few Such Showcases:
March.17 - Lyricist Lounge Showcase @ Independent (9:15-9:35pm)
March.18 - Nail Distro Showcase @ Side [...]
DeScribe’s Harmony EP just hit stores today! Pick up the CD/Download or the signed limited edition, visit Shemspeed Direct, here! If you want to grab it from iTunes, click here. Either way, check out the Award Winning Harmony Music Video, below.
Full of positive messages, pulsating rhythms and addictive melodies, the release includes [...]
I just went to see “Circumsize Me” last night at the Bleecker Street Theater, and it had me thinking about the ridiculous number of hilarious Jews there are in comedy - it’s practically run by Jews! Yet when someone invites you to a one-man show by a religious Jew, your first instinct is, [...]
Kosha Dillz, who right now on th MTV Top 100 is above Miley Cirus and Lady Gaga, claims that he invented this “Fill int eh Blank” crowd participation Freestyle game. Check it out for yourself. This was fimed by Shemspeed’s number one intern, Yishai Mizrahi and featured Kosha’s rap partner, Flex Mathews, Diwon & [...]
Shemspeed Fam have just done a few remixes for Matisyahu’s “One Day”! Electro Morocco has a Caribbean feel and is unlike any of the other remixes we have heard, plus Matis himself tweated for his over 1 million followers on Twitter, suggesting they should grab it off Shemspeed just yesterday. Dreams in Static woke [...]
Do you like women and happen to be one? If you answered yes to this question, we got the spot for you and other people who are and like women. Opening for the spring semester, Taliah PAC is celebrating with a bombin’ launch party this Saturday, March 13th at 8:30pm at their space at [...]
Electro Morocco just remixed Matisyahu’s “One Day” and you could bet it’s the most original remix yet. Opting not to go for the obvious techno’d out remix, they remade it in an almost Caribbean style.
Click here to Listen. / Click here to Download.
Think you got what it takes?
Enter to make your own and win [...]
Check out Balkan Beat Box’s new album, “Blue Eyed Black Boy” on NatGeo Music/Crammed Discs records. It’s interesting that their album has the words Black and Eyed, as this song has a Black Eyed Peas feel to it. Regardless of that fact/opinion, Balkan Beat Box are one of the hottest live bands around, besides [...]
J Brazil was raised in a strict Orthodox Jewish home where his father, a world-renowned Jewish composer, exposed the tenacious child to music at a young age. He learned to sing with his family and soon picked up the drums and piano on his own, penning his first song when he was 6. Eight years [...]
Shemspeed’s new obsession is now Broken Bells. When two of your favorite peoples team up without you having to throw big money at them, it’s a great little gift and James Mercer’s “The Shins” was just so great, We still see Natalie Portman with her walkmen on every time we listen to their music. What [...]
Catch Kosha Dillz “Cellular Phone” video as #24 on MTV’s Top 100 as well as VH1 by clicking here (MTV) / (VH1). Pick up Kosha’s CDs from Shemspeed Direct, here. Ok, checked all that out? now, click to the video to the right to watch Guru, the genius and rap god behind Gang Starr, shout [...]
This year will see a slew of Israeli’s at SXSW (South By South West) , scroll below to catch some of Tel Aviv’s Barzilay regulars as well as Shemspeed’s Kosha Dillz, DJ Balagan & Y-Love. If you recall last year Shemspeed shot a movie every day and posted all of the craziness that went down. [...]
The Shemspeed Audio Player is where you will hear some of our favorite Shemspeed songs as well as exclusives you can;t hear anywhere else! Today we added some really great tracks including;
1. “Yaase Masheba Li” by Brody off his upcoming “Ad Matai” album which will be out May 2nd
2. “Boom Selecta” feat. DeScribe, Kosha Dillz, [...]
Eprhyme has just returned from an intense tour of the UK. We found this video on thejc.com They wrote: The Orthodox rapper mashing up culture
It was a fusion of ancient architecture, traditional klezmer, Middle East politics and dirty hip-hop when New York rapper Eprhyme stormed Sandy’s Row synagogue on Wednesday night.
Both old and young, [...]
Jerusalem hip-hop kingpin, Sagol59 is here to offer a brand new remix album straight outta Israel for FREE. The record is filled with remixes of tracks from the last 10 years of his career and features remixes by Israeli heavy hitters and a few American dj’s including Shimmy Sonic of Soulico, DJ Spooky, Ori [...]
