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Picture it: A crowded public bus. Someone pulls out a ukulele and begins jamming. Within seconds, the entire bus is singing along to the song. Now, imagine that the song is Matisyahu‘s anthem “One Day” and the bus is in Jerusalem. It’s just one of a surprising number of Matisyahu’s songs covered on YouTube by all sorts […]

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When Hollywood makes a movie out of a book, it’s often remarkably different from the original. Ever wonder what authors think about this? James Marcus, a writer for the L.A. Times who also happens to be a musician, recently asked Philip Roth about the film adaptations of his work. Roth hated the most famous one, […]

A nigun is a wordless melody, a musical meditative prayer. Traditionally, a nigun is hummed or chanted by an individual or a group without using instruments. That didn’t deter D. Brook and J. Harkham, whose new collaboration Darkcho  is a beautiful and haunting album of instrumental and musical nigunim. Their tunes are traditional, but Harkham’s echoey guitar work creates […]

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