JDub and Heeb Present:
American Shmidol Karaoke Showdown
Come early and sign up to wow your friends and embarass your date by doing your best Avril Lavigne or David Lee Roth. Impress the judges (Michael Showalter, David Waine, and Michael Ian Black of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, STELLA, and The State) and win fabo JDub/Heeb prize packs.
Monday, March 13th, Doors at 8PM
Dance your butt off afterwards with DJ STEINSKI
TICKETS $14 HERE
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Our good friend Nadav Samin (AKA Siah for you underground hip hop heads) just completed one hell of a track and he wants you to hear it. On it, Nadav contemplates “HaMatzav” – the situation in the Middle East – in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Its a song with a challenging, earnest message, and love it or hate it, its well worth 3 minutes of your time. You can download the track here for free. Full translation and lyrics here. And share your comments here.
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MTVu, Matisyahu’s first music television supporter, has nominated the Hasidic reggae singer for 2 of its most coveted of awards, the Woodie. Here’s what they say:
The college music moment of truth. The artists whose music you’ve lived your life to all year. The highs, the lows, the stress, the love, the hate, the worry… the music never stopped. Vote until your mouse breaks.
You heard them, Matisyahu needs you. VOTE NOW, VOTE OFTEN!
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An amazing graffiti project my friend DK turned me on to:
eRuv is a digital graffiti project installed along the route of the former Third Avenue elevated train line in lower Manhattan. The train line, dismantled in 1955, was more than just a means of transport; it was part of an important religious boundary – an eruv – for a Hasidic community on the old Lower East Side. Using semacodes, the former boundary is reconstructed and mapped back onto the space of the city. Pedestrians with camera phones can then access location-specific historical content linked through the semacodes. Or you can cheat and see the amazing archival photos here.
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Since everyone else is putting up their calls for submissions this week, I thought I’d add ours to the mix:
Send your hottest track to the JDub family for the chance to be featured on an upcoming JDub compilation! The CD, being produced by JDub co-founder Ben Hesse, will showcase new music from JDub artists like Matisyahu, So Called and Balkan Beat Box, while also presenting up and coming talent to the masses.
How does JDub define Jewish music? Music is an art, not only a means to an end, but with inherent value onto itself. JDub produces and disseminates music that is Jewish as defined by the artists creating it. So if you’ve got anything you think fits our giant Jewish parameters, we’d love to hear it.
Deadline for submissions – March 21
Please include high quality recordings on CD and information about yourself / your group including name, email, phone number, and address.
Send to:
JDub Records
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Attn: JDub Sampler 2005
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Jacob Harris is JDub’s artist incubator AKA Matisyahu’s manager, buddy, and goto guy. we don’t have a perminent home for his new blog, so we’ll start with a snippet here:
today i spent 23 hours determining whether or not tofutti non-dairy cream cheese is kosher so that we could put it on matisyahu’s hospitality rider. that’s the part of the performance contract that we get to tack on after our fabulous booking agent to the stars negotiates the deal with the club or the “others.”
if you’ve seen wayne’s world 2, the rider is the artist’s forum for asking the talent buyer for 1000 brown m&m’s backstage…along with a keg of red bull, 1 live goldfish in a crystal bowl, a VHS copy of “Pure Genius” etc. etc.
anyway, tofutti maintains that their products are strictly kosher, and the chaf k peeps say it’s kosher, but it is noticeably absent from OU’s website (which is about as large as google – yes google), and a bunch of lists of really-really-really kosher ish. i talked to one rabbi who said that tofutti “isn’t looking out for his soul” and that he doesn’t eat their goods. that’s heavy. i hope that somebody at land-o-lakes or even philadelphia cream cheese is looking out for my soul, especially as they sound a lot tougher than the people at tofutti by annunciation alone. i’m sure the beautiful woman on the land-o-lakes box could rough up anyone who went after my soul with even something as small as a butter knife.
anyway, tofutti didn’t make the rider cut, but carrots did along with smucker’s strawberry jelly – yummm.
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