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Short dispatches from the world of Jewish rock & roll, circa 2005.

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Starbucks filters out Springsteen

Though they've championed the work of classic rock icons like Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, and Joni Mitchell, Starbucks has retreated

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Zorn again

Radical Jewish culture has a new epicenter. Using funds from his Tzadik label, John Zorn has just opened The Stone, a non-

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I might be wrong

Pitchfork reports that the new Strokes album will feature Nick Valensi  on Mellotron, speculating that Valensi is trying to be the band’

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He likes us. He really likes us!

Check out this short New York Times article on the music Bruce Springsteen plays before concerts.  Bob Dylan?  Sleater-Kinney?  Woody "

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Unnecessary exclamation marks: bad for the Jews.

The Beastie Boys aren't the only Jewish musicians who have recently been accused of ripping off other artists. According to

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The commercialization, it is a-changin'

The Yada blogreports that Bob Dylan is "shilling for Amazon.com."  Since we're still traumatized by those Victoria

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The Jackson connection: Shmuley B.

A few years ago, Michael Jackson and everyone's favorite celeburebbe Shmuley Boteach sat down with a  tape recorder to plan

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Nothing says "Old Testament" like a Mountain Goat.

This month's issue of the McSweeney's non-fiction mag The Believer comes with a truly excellent complication CD

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Bad for the pseudo-Jews

Rush and Molloy of the New York Daily News report not one but two exposes of kabbalah: "20/20" is

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Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty...

Atlantic City used to be a sort of Valhalla of musicians from the '50s and '60s, where the local oldies

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This Yiddish Life

Tune in to This American Life this upcoming weekend for Jewsrock.org founder David Segal’s story about a Hasidic Brooklynite who

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San Fran court upholds Beastie Boys' license to ill.

And now from the neverending file of Jewsrock-related lawsuits: Remember the Beastie Boy's track "Pass the Mic"

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