Team JDub is always happy to hear that other Jewy bands we like are playing shows nearby, so you can imagine our delight when we discovered that the Southern punk sounds of CAN!!CAN (you might know singer Patrick, of PunkTorah) would be making an appearance at The Shemspeed Summer Music Fest going down at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Thursday. Shemspeed has special events running all week in tons of cities, but we’re really pumped for the Thursday date that also includes Electro Morocco, Describe, Y-Love, Diwon, Eytan & Six Point Star.
Of course, I can’t not mention that JDub’s very own Girls in Trouble are playing a Shemspeed Fest event tonight at Drom in the East Village, alongside Eprhyme and Kosha Dillz. That should start around 9PM, so don’t be late!
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
Found this on Jdub’s website today: