Heeb Magazine, always the edgy and not-your-mamma’s-Judaism kind of publication, has created a competition that is all at once offensive, intriguing, and thought provoking: a Fake Holocaust Memoir Competition Inspired by “fauxlocaust” survivor (Heeb’s well-constructed term) Binjamin Wilkomirski and his tear jerking but very false Holocaust memoir, “Memories of a Wartime Childhood [...]

Friday the 13th marks the beginning of the highly anticipated Mercedes-Benz Fashon Week in NYC.  Looking at the list of designers headlining the event, which runs through February 20th, one notices the sheer number of Jewish designers.  Here are 3 of  my personal favorites:
ALEXANDRE HERCHCOVITCH - Brazilian master of crazy styles that somehow totally rock.
WED. [...]

Daniel Harris
Thirty-Two Bit Isn’t Really Eight Bits Better
For satisfied customers of: Jose Gonzalez, Sufjan Stevens, and Death Cab for Cutie.
Ever wonder what a snow day would sound like?
A fresh blanket of dazzling Winter white tucks nature into bed, putting work or school on hold for the day, and you can already smell a fresh cup [...]

Where did Regina go? She has 22 million plays in her myspace player and all the sudden it’s like she vanished from the lime-light. Or we stopped reading hipster blogs…Either way, we are dying to hear some new seductive sonnets from our favorite Jewess songstress. And, Ok, so if thanking “Hashem” in her [...]

We just saw this post on a site called UGO and reposted on Jewlicious. check it out here. Once you click in you could scroll through the 50 photos and it gives you a little bio and everything. We had no idea that some of the women that they list there were even [...]

Shemspeed peeps!
We wanted to let you know that the C-Rayz Walz/Kosha Dillz record hits stores next Tuesday (Oct 14th). This is one of the most amazing, and probably only, hip hop records ever made by a Jewish and Black MC duo. Grab copies of the album from the Modular Moods store ! [...]

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Alan Cohen Experience
Alan Cohen Experience
label: ACExp/FamJam
For satisfied customers of: Oysterhead, Van Morrison, and Traffic.
With the big A.C., it’s anything but “quiet on the waterfront.”
 
 
 
On his self-titled sophomore effort (due to percolate airwaves everywhere November 4th) fans put to sleep by more of the same will be shaken alive by Alan [...]

Diwon has produced countless electro and hip hop mixes. His use of traditional Yemenite and Sephardic music, however, sets him apart from other artists in the genre. Influenced heavily by his family’s roots in Yemen, Ethiopia and Israel, the multicultural maestro is always full of suprises and his latest release, The Beat Guide to Yiddish, [...]

Check out this VH1 style “Best Rosh Hashana Ever” featuring Matisyahu, Y-Love, Ari Gold, Jessica Grose, Diwon (as dj handler), and a slew of others. The first two episodes — “Rosh Hashana” and “Sin & Forgiveness” are up on Cablevision Channel 291, Time Warner Cable Channel 528, and Verizon FiOS Channel 900. [...]

“I Love Jews” was chosen by the chosen as the theme song for the Nu Ju Year 5769. The infectious rhymes are set to 19 yr old Kentron Da Mastodon’s beat which touches on the Delfonics “La La La Means I Love You,”. Feel free to download it and pass to friends. Download for free [...]

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.I try not to get political on Shemspeed, but if Sarah Silverman is dishing the politics, I’m down to waiter. So, The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in [...]

The 6th Shemspeed Open Mic that went down last night was full of surprises. Looping Madness came by and collaborated with Y-Love and a first time scatter, Spencer which was pure genius! click here to view that. The best part of the night was Moshiach Oi. I was outside of the Tea [...]

Ok, this has to be the all time coolest Jewish Rap track for the dance club, we have ever heard! Kentron Da Mastadon, the genius kid behind the Freestyle Vs. Written record, just took on remixing all the songs off the album. They will be available soon, but for now we [...]

Shemspeed conducts an exclusive Gossip Girl type interview with Matthue Roth about life, payot and his new book “Losers” (and by Gossip Girl we mean that all interaction was done through texting.)
Shemspeed: We heard a rumor from the stylist at HBO’s Def Poetry that if they had cut yoru payot off right then before the [...]

We are throwing a record release party for Pitom on John Zorn’s Tzadik records at the Public Assembly (formerly Galapagos) this coming Tuesday eve. The night will feature some very cool special guests including, Frank London, Diwon & minutn fun bitoklm feat. benjy fox rosen of luminescent orchestri
@ Public Assembly (formerly known as Galapagos
70 [...]

The Chabad Telethon is one of the biggest Jewish Television spectalars that there is. And if you watch the video to the left, you could see why. This is the all time coolest Ki VaMoed we have ever heard. The students of the famous “Ray Chew’s Boys Choir” of Harlem smooth out [...]

Shemspeed’s own Nina Safar has been hard at work trying to put peace in the streets filled with tension. The streets have been heavy in Crown Heights, but this Sunday things might get a little lighter, or at least a little more fun. Drop on by and say what up. NYS Assemblyman [...]

Aaron Goldberg Trio
Worlds
label: Sunnyside
For satisfied customers of: The Bad Plus, Pat Methany, and Joshua Redman.
Commitment, diversity, and versatility - a trio of triumph in jazz.

Acoustic jazz treats are best served chilled, and the Aaron Goldberg Trio’s latest entree’ Worlds is no exception. After our interview at the Newport Jazz Festival, Aaron was kind enough [...]

Whoa an actual accapella groove for this group! I’m pretty sure this is from the same guys that put out those AKApella CDs which were not accapella. They tricked so many unknowing Ultra Orthodox Jews to actually listen to real instruments in a time where they refrain (ben hametzarim). I think their [...]

Tale of tragedy and triumph for a struggling Hasidic rap star
BY SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
“He dodged bullets on a streetcorner. He watched his mother die from a cocaine addiction. But Flatbush’s Yitzchak (Y-Love) Jordan is more Hasidic than ‘hood.
New York’s only known black ultra-Orthodox Jewish rapper left his native Baltimore at 21 for Brooklyn, [...]

Remember when George Benson did a jazz guitar version of all of Abbey Road one month after the Beatles released theirs? Me neither, but it happened. Seems that remixes killed covers for the most part, especially when it’s electronic music going to acoustic form, and that’s a shame.
Sooo my dude Diwon sent me this one [...]

Miki Shaw of GhettoPlotz was just chillen with Shemspeed at Cargo in London doing visuals for Lines of Faith, Diwon, Smadar and Y-Love. Was great and you could see photos at flickr.com/shemspeed. Anyway, Miki does visuals full time in her group GhettoPlotz which is a live klezmer-house dancefloor mashup project featuring Mark White live [...]

As Paul Barman said when his CD came out, “It’s Here! It’s Here!!!!!!!!!…”
C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz
Freestyle Vs. Written
NYC CD Release Party!
@ Knitting Factory
(74 Leonard St, NYC 10013)
info at knittingfactory.com
ALL AGES!!!
with performances by
YAK BALLZ, Y LOVE, DIWON, PACE WON of the OUTSIDAZ, MR GREEN AND ROEBUS ONE…hosted by FLEX MATHEWS (DC)
GET IT ON ITUNES [...]

The Levi Okunov Fashion Show did not disappoint. They took a break last year from the Frying Pan location, but last night it was back on in full force with hasidic rebels and fashionistas celebrity style, like Heatherett, who is in the Shemspeed flickr batch (scroll down to click to view). I never [...]

We’ve been waiting for the return of Levi’s Fashion Show at Frying Pan for two years. It is always one of the most fun events of the summer. It also plays as a who is who of the hip hasidic under ground as well as the non hasidic and maybe not to underground….anyway, [...]