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 [...]

March 18: Kosha Dillz, DJ Balagan & Y-Love @ SXSW, TX
March 19: Kosha, Balagan & Flex as part of Hip Hop Howl @ Red Fez, TX
March 25: Electro Morocco perform at the annual Downtown Seder @ City Winery, NY
March 27: Onili, DJ Set by Ori Shochat, Y-Love & Diwon @ Littlefield, NY
April 15: Shemspeed Open [...]

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 [...]

For those of you who were at Shemspeed Winter Fest, you caught Eytan singing with Dreams in Static….the dude is a rockstar! For those who didn’t catch it, “Turn The Beat Around” premieres tonight on MTV at 10pm ET featuring a cover of “That’s The Way” by Eytan. It’s also running at the following [...]

With all the Purim mishugas, it can be pretty difficult to find just the right party for Saturday night. So let me fill you in on an opportunity to celebrate with the best, dance your pants off to some music that will make your feet happy, and give tzedaka to a worthy cause.
Come on [...]

Check out our boy Matisyahu wearing our Israeli Keffiyeh at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and get yours at www.thekef.com

It was an illsane weekend at Jewlicious Festival in Long Beach. Check jewliciousfestival.com for videos of all the performers and photos of the entire weekend. Click play below, to check out this improv freestyle that happened as Kosha Dillz, Flex Mathews,Kosha’s drummer Mike Sheffer and Diwon closed out their set with Matisyahu.

p.s. Shemspeed Winter [...]

Jewlicious Fest is just about finished up. Was really crazy this year, Kosha Dillz, Flex Mathews, Mike S. and Diwon killed it right from the start with tracks off the latest Beverly Dillz record and closing the set with Matisyahu jumping on (videos to come). Next was Electro Morocco who got the place jumping like [...]

Rabbi Nachman is like Rabbi Carlebach, not in the way that he himself played music, but in that he left a musical legacy behind him. Nachman Meuman is the chorus to countless reggae, dubbed out trance, hip hop and folk songs that come out everyday from Breslovers around the world. Unfortunately, a lot [...]

Born Alex Bernstein and hailing from suburban Maryland, DJ Kool Jew has come a long way since his days back at Beth Shalom Hebrew School. “Even when I was in services, I was always humming, always dreaming of big things.”
As a teen, Bernstein played in a bunch of bands, performing at spots as varied as [...]

Rinat Gutman will be flying in from Israel and joining a slew of the Shemspeed Artists (Electro Morocco, Kosha Dillz, & Diwon)at Jewlicious Festival. Rinat is the first Orthodox Female rapper on the scene and was just written up in LaIsha magazine, Israel’s equivalent to Cosmopolitan. In order to prepare yourself check out her [...]

This was shot while Eprhyme & Diwon were playing shows in the bay area a few months ago. They linked up with Nomy Lamm the American singer/songwriter and political activist who describes herself as a “bad ass, fat ass, Jew, dyke amputee.” Check out the improv closing of their show building structures from [...]