Appearance on VH1’s Metal Evolution
via vh1.com
I’m featured as a talking head on the Thrash episode of VH1’s Metal Evolution series. I haven’t seen it yet as it’s only available in the US. Looks good though
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David Coverdale Jewish rumour
My family and I hosted the family of one of my son’s friends at school for tea today. Over scones and sandwiches, the father said that he had heard David Coverdale was Jewish. I’ve never heard that before and google …
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Eliyahu Dali’s Metal Prayer
I’m impossible to please, really I am. I spent much of my life yearning for Jewish metal, but when it finally comes along I find I’m just as finicky, fussy and critical as I am about any other kind of …
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Support my Book: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Although I’m working on 3 other book projects at the moment, I’ve just started another. It’s called ‘The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds’ . The book will be witty but with a serious …
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The West Memphis Three are Free
I just got back from 2 weeks holiday to find that the West Memphis Three are free! Great news, tinged with sadness at the time they spent inside and that technically they are still marked as guilty. The case was
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A few belated thoughts on the death of JDub
The announcement a few weeks ago that the prominent Jewish record label JDubwas shutting down after 9 years, attracted a lot of commentary in the Jewish blogosphere. JDub was unable to sustain financial viability despite attracting a lot of …
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Norwegian terrorist attack – what does Varg think?
Ever since hearing about the recent terrorist attack in Norway I have wondered about what Varg Vikernes’s reaction would be. Well, wonder no longer: he has posted his thoughts in a post on his website entitled War in Europe: Part …
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Top Ten Metal Hybrids
This is a cross-post with Souciant webzine:
In a (post-) postmodern age, no collision of phenomena should surprise us. I don’t know if Latvian-Portuguese fusion food exists, but it certainly could. So it is that heavy metal has …
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Yiddish-speaking Vikings (cross-posted with Souciant webzine)
I wrote the following for Souciant magazine – cross-posted with permission:
Heavy Metal is often seen as a quintessentially white, Western, music. That is indeed the case much of the time. Metal emerged out of white, blue collar mutilations of …
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Rush’s Geddy Lee goes Klezmer
If you’re a Rush fan and like the idea of hearing Geddy Lee singing in Yiddish,check out this this piece from Jewcy.…
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