Monday, December 07, 2009

Subject: Music

First there's Nomi Teplow.



Her new single is out, Or (Light).

Ynet (in Hebrew) has a story and a sound clip.



And there's Good for the Jews, a group who hit the NYTimes where this appeared:

The MySpace page for the music duo Goodfor the Jews lists enough rules to warrant a Talmudic debate : No songs about dreidels; no Israeli folk dancing, just Jewish music for people who don’t like Jewish music. See if they adhere to these questionable commandments when they perform tonight at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The pre-Hannukah show features the band’s Rob Tannenbaum, co-creator of “What I like About Jew,” and David Fagin, lead singer of the Rosenbergs. They will perform along with special guest DeLeon as well as the comedians Morgan Murphy, Seth Herzog and Rachel Sklar. Listen for classics like “Goin’ Down to Boca” and “Good to Be a Jew at Christmas.”


A Youtube clip of there's is here.


Between you and me, Nomi has a much better voice - and looks better, too.

3 comments:

yoni said...

re: the song by nomi- this is a classic example of what is known to rocknrollers as the "3-chord trick" and to gospel singers as, well, the sound heaven makes. here's what i consider to be a much more moving example, in a jewish context. i love these kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmqAjY9W_pw&feature=player_embedded

oh wait, did you post this recently? i forget where i got it. and how do i embed a link properly on your blog comments? thanks.

YMedad said...

your link came through fine by me.

and we are still awaiting a new disc by you, no?

yoni said...

i mean that you should be able to just click on the link, rather than copy and paste.

my new "disc" (cd's are dead, don't you know, it's only digital information with no packaging now) is still in my head, thanks for asking. :)