Browsing in: 2009

  • Posted on Last Second Matisyahu @ Rockwood show

    If you are all about Twitter and Matisyahu then you too would know what’s going on tonight in NYC. Aaron Dugan is performing at Rockwood Music Hall tonight. The Music Hall part of the …

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  • Posted on Shivi Keller NY stint

    Shivi Keller is the front man for En Od Milvado and I can’t count the amount of times we have been approached to book this musician for his short trip in NY. The …

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  • Posted on Y-Love & Diwon headed to Chicago

    Y-Love and Diwon are performing in Chicago this Thursday in conjunction with Spertus Museum’s current exhibition, Twisted into Recognition: Cliches of Jews and Others. Spertus is proud to host a one-night-only concert by “hip …

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  • Posted on Escape from Hamas

    Escape from Hamas airs Saturday at 9 p.m., with repeats at 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. EST, and Sunday at 9 p.m., with repeats at 12 midnight, 2 a.m., EST. …

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  • Posted on Heeb’s Vice

    What happens when a Jewish magazine ( Heeb ) tries too hard to be a non Jewish magazine ( Vice ). Well, first, people come to view the magazine as a less …

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  • Posted on CHANGE IS COMING

    Finally, Change is coming. The BBC, Italy’s La Repubblica, and XXL magazine have all featured Brooklyn-based MC Y-Love and his multilingual approach to hip-hop. Y-Love’s 2008 debut album This is …

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  • Posted on Amy Winehouse’ Rehab in Yiddish

    This is just strange…although I feel like if he sang less hesitantly, he could be on to something. A little more than one minute into it, he starts with the …

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  • Posted on Gaza/Sderot Video Project

    “music during wartime” This is a somber first post for me on Shemspeed, noting that for millions in Israel and Gaza 2009 will not begin happily. Missiles are reaching farther …

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