Metal Jew

My kids rock

This evening I acted as DJ while my kids (6 and 2 years) danced like maniacs around the bedroom. It was one of those times when I remembered why I wanted to breed in the first place. Here's their favourite tunes:

Toy Dolls - 'Nellie the Elephant'
Electric Six - 'Gay Bar'
Ruslana - 'Wild Dances'
Plastic Bertrand - 'Ca Plane Pour Moi'

RIP Lux Interior

I have never been a huge Cramps fan but there's no denying that Lux Interior was the real deal. Remember him this way:

 

Black Shabbis

This is very very exicting: finally it looks like someone has produced the kind of playful, semi-ironic, radical, avant-garde Jewish metal I always dreamed of.  Black Shabbis is a project of multi-instrumentalist Jamie Saft and is out on John Zorn's uber-credible Tzadik label. Here's what the label blurb says:

After two stunning jazz piano trio recordings featuring the music of Dylan and Zorn, dubmeister Jamie Saft returns to his roots with a masterpiece of Jewish heavy metal. Slashing and burning his way through nine tracks of unbridled madness, this is Radical Jewish Culture at its best. Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and Slayer for the frum, Black Shabbis presents uncompromising and intense sounds from one of the most versatile creative lights in the downtown scene.

I've pre-ordered the CD, which is out at the end of Feb and I'm pretty excited. Could this be what I've been searching for?

Hat tip (as ever) to Jack