Eitan Katz Gets Down To Business

Over at the Frum Entrepreneur... Interview with Renowned Singer & Producer Eitan Katz.

MBD Makes International Kiddish Hashem

In Newsweek... "Popular Jewish Singer Makes Racial Slur Against Obama at Jerusalem Concert."

‫שיר ‏כניסה לחופה - דודי קנפלר - מקהלת שירה‬‎

‫שיר ‏כניסה לחופה - דודי קנפלר - מקהלת שירה - ברכת כהנים | Dudi Knopfler ft. Shira Choir‬‎ - YouTube:

SHTAR - Ma'oz Tzur

Djangle Belz

IN the Jewish Standard... "North Jersey Jewish sounds."

JMR Benny Friedman Review

This Guest Review of Benny – Fill The World With Light gets a link for this line: "This is the one that teenage girls and middle aged men trying too hard will [be] pumping loudly through open car windows."

Crisis-mukkah Is Coming!

The Devil's in the Details

Over at Lilith... Two Women Team Up to Revitalize Music from a Polish Shtetl.

He Sure Would (and Did)

In Jewish Action... Fifty Years of Neshama: Cantor Sherwood Goffin.

Leonard Cohen Z"L Remembered

Leonard Cohen remembered, by his Cantor: ‘Home was where Eliezer’s heart was pulled’

Kol Hakavod, Air Supply!

Air Supply Gives Away 200 Free Concert Tickets to Firemen’s Wives.

Kicking It Old-School

Heimish, I mean Heimatdamisch Musik.

Echo Yochi

It's one loon with a YouTube channel, not all Chabad.

That said, even one is troubling. Not representative, but still troubling...

Chabad Messianist who Preaches Killing Gays Raps Funky Praise for the Rebbe.

Rare Recordings of R' Ben Zion Shenker Z"L

Over at Circus Tent.

BDE - R' Ben Zion Shenker

I'm sad to report the passing of the influential chassidic composer/singer R' Ben Zion Shenker Z"L. R' Shenker composed many songs that are widely sung in the Jewish world, including melodies for Mizmor LeDavid and Yosis Alayich. He also carried the Modzits musical tradition, documenting, singing, and recording the melodies of the Modzitser rebbes. Yehei Zichro Baruch!

On Tails of Lions

At the Independent... an Alex Clare interview: ‘The world is a crazy place’

HaCohen Hagadol Me'echav

Over at the Leherhaus... Wrestling With God: Leonard Cohen’s "You Want it Darker".

לענאַרד כּהנס „הללויה‟ — אויף ייִדיש

Dan Kahn sings Leonard Cohen's Haleluya in Yiddish. Well done, but with some, erm, immodest lyrics.

Mostly Kosher - Ain't No Sunshine

The best klezmer version of a Bill Wither's tune I've ever heard!

Six13 - That Shabbos Feeling!