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Music

Rapper Azealia Banks goes viral, again, for tweeting about Jews — this time calling Jewish food ‘delicioooooous’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — In the hours before this article was published, rapper Azealia Banks posted or shared dozens of tweets about topics spanning astrology, Florida’s water supply and Drake — along with many musings about sex.

On Monday,...

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist who hosted musical Passover seders, dies at 84

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Among the legions of Grateful Dead fans mourning Phil Lesh are a small but devoted cohort of Jewish Deadheads with memories of celebrating Passover with him.

“To life! To Phil! Our love will not fade...

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping, mustachioed Texan country singer and mystery novelist whose body of work often seemed like the un-kosher marriage of the Borscht Belt and the Bible Belt, died June 27 from complications of Parkinson’s...

‘Can You Dig It?’: New podcast traces how a Puerto Rican-Jewish gang leader helped create hip-hop in the Bronx

By ANDREW ESENSTEN

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In the late 1960s, the Bronx was at war. Rival gangs were fighting over territory in neighborhoods that had been devastated by drugs, poverty and the construction of the Cross...

Final LMI concert today is at Dixon Annex Recital Hall

The Louis Moreau Institute for New Music Performance (LMI) has moved its final concert for today from Annunciation Church to the Dixon Hall Annex in the Recital Hall room on the Tulane University campus.

The concert, which is this year’s...

Project to help struggling Israeli music industry produces covers of 50 classic Israeli songs

(JTA) — It took 80 Israeli musicians two months to record covers of 50 classic Israeli songs as part of a project to help the Israeli music industry cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The artists, whose styles...

Pop star Pink, having recovered from coronavirus, is donating $1M to fight the disease

(JTA) — Jewish pop star Pink and her 3-year-old son have recovered from the coronavirus, she announced on Twitter.

She and her son Jameson were sheltering at home in Los Angeles when they began experiencing symptoms and tested positive for...