Blog in Dm: Blogging Jewish Music from A to Zorn!

On second thought, lets ban it!

Krum as a Bagel writes "Confusing Our Jewish Youth (In Song!)" (Hat tip, E.) Shira Salamone doesn't like the musical choices ...

Ever wondered what it would sound like if a "von-man-band" got a film scoring gig?

Mordechai Shinefield rounds up Jewsapalooza for those who were gigging and couldn't make the show. Alexander Gelfand reviews Alex Konto...

Naftali writes: You always suspected this... Click here. Psachya writes: Selections from the "request list" at a recent gig: Ma ...

On the plus side... no trifecta. Only Ein Aroch. I believe I suffered through the worst setting of a Rosh Hashana piyut ever. That would be...

Given the interest in exotic instruments, I suppose this was inevitable. Note: According to Jewish tradition, a synthetic shofar is not acc...

"Too Much Personal Information Guy" "Too Much Personal Information Guy" gets a Mazal Tov. His daughter had her first chi...

Played a few heavy chassidic gigs recently... At one affair, we had the volume significantly louder than we prefer; this was necessary to fi...

Emes V'emunah tells the truth! The Rabbi Teitelbaum article we linked to earlier has been edited. Here's the expunged bit: Things ha...

One divorced woman told an acquaintance of ours: "The only nice memory I have of my entire first wedding experience was the music playe...

So, the KlezmerShack calls Blog in Dm a daily read, and we turn out to be on hiatus. Talk about timing. Thanks for the kind words, Ari. Mea...

Cleaning out accumulated links... Now they're banning Yiddish rap! Emes Ve-Emunah comments. Catch the fat man in Bass Player! Nice pi...

E. forwards a link to the new Pruzbomb release. A Simple Jew forwards An Elul Message From SRV. Psachya and PT forward "A Kosher Altern...

Some miscellaneous thoughts... Blogger's "Blog This!" tool is fixed, so more links soon. It hasn't been working for me lat...

Over at the Klezmer Shack, Ari Davidow goes political and gets results. I'd been planning to link to his post in support, but before I...

Alexander Gelfand writes about drummer Elaine Hoffman-Watts in "She's Still Got the Beat."

ADDeRabbi satirizes the Jerusalem concert ban envisioning Uncle Moishy's last recording session. The underlying point of how bans affec...

I recently had the experience of playing two gigs with the same band. Only thing was, the sign on the bandstand (and the drummer) was differ...

In a recent post, we presented Rav Ovadyah Yosef's approach to the issue of using romantic melodies for davening. Now, the rest of the ...