Music

Photo by Christian Lantry

The Latin band Ozomatli is rocking out on the flatbed of a truck parked on a closed-down Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a Saturday in early November, and the band is playing for a motley group of aging and 20-something hippies, union workers and even some Jews from the Westside, all of whom are dancing in the street a few hundred. . .
Top Stories
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
On fire

The old stereotype of Mizrahi music — an Israeli genre created by immigrant Jews from North African and Arab countries — was of teary, sorrowful. . .

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
With ‘New Soul,’ a new beginning

Yael Naim might need to have her head checked out. Take her word for it.. . .

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Idan Raichel: From the Personal to the Universal

Israeli megastar Idan Raichel launched his music career as a keyboardist for various other Israeli artists, with the hope of one day producing his. . .

Wednesday, September 14, 2011
From Jewish roots, band sprouts afro/new wave wings

Luke Top and Lewis Pesacov of Fool’s Gold are surprised they don’t have a larger Jewish fan base. Most of the songs on the band’s 2009. . .

Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Rosh Hashanah ‘in the house tonight’ dances into the new year

Aish brings together rhythem, beats and davening for their 'Rosh Hashanah in the house tonight' dancing spectacle.. . .

Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The romanticism of Matt Nathanson

Pop-folkie Matt Nathanson had just returned from hanging in Hawaii, but it was a vacation he only enjoyed “50 percent,” he said.. . .

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Israeli Philharmonic will play in London despite protest

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at the prestigious BBC Proms in London despite calls for a boycott of its performance.. . .

Wednesday, August 17, 2011
French music renegade is re-discovered

Although he is not widely known in the United States, the French-Jewish composer, lyricist, musician and singer Serge Gainsbourg is a legend in his. . .

Monday, July 25, 2011
Israeli orchestra to play Wagner piece in Germany

The Israel Chamber Orchestra plans to perform a composition by Richard Wagner in Germany, breaking an Israel taboo against playing the anti-Semitic. . .

Saturday, July 23, 2011
British Jewish singer Amy Winehouse found dead

. . .

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Canadian DJ finds audience for klezmer fusion in France

Josh Dolgin didn’t set out to kick Yiddish music into the 21st century.. . .

Friday, July 8, 2011
Bet Tzedek Has a Ball With Rapper Nelly

Surrounded by dancing bodies, a 20-something took off his shirt and waved it around his head, bare-chested, simply following the instructions of. . .

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Casey Abrams’ ‘American Idol’ chutzpah

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Casey Abrams was the one for Jews to watch during the 10th season of “American Idol.” His reddish-brown beard. . .

Monday, June 13, 2011
Tel Aviv’s Anat Cohen again takes clarinet award

For the fifth straight year, Tel Aviv native Anat Cohen received the clarinetist of the year award from the Jazz Journalists Association. The awards. . .

Monday, June 6, 2011
Coldplay removes ‘Freedom for Palestine’ link from Facebook page

Coldplay removed a message posted on its Facebook page urging the British rock band's fans to check out the "Freedom for Palestine" music video. The. . .

Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Coldplay urges fans to check out Palestine music video

The British rock band Coldplay in a message posted on its Facebook page urged fans to check out the "Freedom for Palestine" music video. The song,. . .

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The passion of David Lang

It may seem a sign of overconfidence for someone to tell you he’s rewriting a major work by Beethoven, but for David Lang, who reconceived Bach’s. . .

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Where there’s music, there’s hope

It’s a sad fact of life that, for every soldier killed in a war, several more return home wounded. Many of these injured soldiers face a difficult. . .

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Happy Birthday, Bob!

That Hibbing, Minn., native who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman but has been known as Bob Dylan since he first started performing in New York’s. . .

Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Mandolin Rock Star

Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small. . .

Thursday, May 12, 2011
Deep Purple drummer: Israel concert cancelers are ‘wimps’

Performers who cancel their concerts in Israel due to politics are "real wimps," the rock band Deep Purple's drummer said. Ian Paice made the. . .

Monday, April 11, 2011
Southern Israeli kids getting free Bieber tickets

Some 700 children from southern Israeli communities that have been hit by rockets and missiles from Gaza were given free tickets to pop star Justin. . .

Thursday, April 7, 2011
Queens College group takes Jewish a cappella competition [VIDEO]

A group from Queens College won the inaugural Jewish collegiate a cappella competition and its $1,500 prize. Tizmoret was named the best of the nine. . .

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
More than a concert

Veteran musician Matthew Lazar said in a recent interview that “singing in a choir is paradigmatic of community,” but a choir, as shown by the. . .







Newspaper

Serving a community of 600,000, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is the largest Jewish weekly outside New York City. Our award-winning paper reaches over 150,000 educated, involved and affluent readers each week. Subscribe here.

© Copyright 2012 Tribe Media Corp.
All rights reserved. JewishJournal.com is hosted by Nexcess.net. Homepage design by Koret Communications.
Widgets by Mijits. Site construction by Hop Studios.

counter fake hit page