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OutofTowner Reviews “Happy Hour” by Breslov Bar Band
It is almost three months since Breslov Bar Band released their album Happy Hour. When it was released I posted a recommendation on JMR without listening to the whole album, but...
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Review: Dovid Moskovits: The Soaring Prodigy
By: Dave Sharpner We live in a society of child prodigies. We see them on YouTube. We hear them on other singer’s albums. And sometimes, if the kid’s really good, we’ll even see...
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Shimon’s Review of B’nei Heichala: A Shabbos with Benny Friedman
You know an album is good when it remains in MostlyMusic.com’s “New Releases” department for a full year after its release. So it was with Benny Friedman’s Yesh Tikvah, the most...
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Shimon’s Review of “Breather” by Shlomi Cohen
UPDATE: Thank you so much to Shlomi Cohen for his feedback on the first version of this review. Apparently, my ear isn’t as good as I thought it was, and I misidentified a few...
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OutofTowner Reviews Modim Anachnu Lach by Baruch Levine
The past few months I have been on an unofficial leave of absence from JMR (no worries guys…it was paternity leave) but that hasn’t stopped me from listening to and enjoying some...
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OutofTowner Reviews Bnei Heichala by Benny Friedman
I have a habit of starting reviews and never finishing them, so when I am in the middle of a review I am loathe to stop because I am not sure I’ll ever finish. However, I have to...
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Shimon’s Review of “Kolot” by Yaakov Shwekey
In 2000, R’ Shmuel Brazil released the album Shuvu, a compilation of new songs which featured some new and upcoming singers, including a young Sefardi vocalist from Brooklyn named...
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OutOfTowner reviews Lipa Schmeltzer’s Dus Pintele
Lipa Schmeltzer is a trend setter. There is really no other way to say it. His musical talents and prowess are virtually unmatched and his energy is legendary. I happen to remember...
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Purim Reviews, Part III: Purim’ish by MRM Music
MRM Music, the same outfit responsible for the last two Lipa albums, a bunch of Soulfarm productions, dozens of chassidishe compilation albums, and anything with the words “Super Collection Mix” in...
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OutofTowner Reviews Pischi Li by Simcha Leiner
There are many singers today on the wedding scene that are popular today. It usually takes a singer many years on the scene to really become popular and gain a following. And then...
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Shimon’s Review of “Pischi Li” by Simcha Leiner
Jewish singers enter the industry in various ways. In no particular order, we have: the Grown Up Child Soloists (Ari Goldwag, Shloime Dachs), the Dynastic Successors Who May Have Been Born In The...
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OutOfTowner Reviews Beats by EvanAl and Yoely Greenfeld
Compilation/Wedding CDs are produced from time to time and while I enjoy hearing the most popular songs with a particular band or arranger’s twist, I have never felt compelled to write a review on one...
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OutOfTowner Reviews Hearts Mind by Eli Schwebel
How often does an album come out in the Jewish Music scene that transcends the Jewish Music scene both in style and substance? The answer is not very often. Eli Schwebel has done something amazing...
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Shimon’s Review of “Beats” by EvanAl Orchestra and Yoely Greenfeld
First things first: I am, and always have been, a huge fan of compilation albums. From the old-school What A Wedding albums of the ‘80s featuring Neginah Orchestra, to Yochi Briskman’s Project X...
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Shimon’s Review of “One Day More” by The Maccabeats
It’s sefirah again, which means time for some a cappella (that’s “chapel-style”, i.e., “non-instrumental”, for you non-Italian speakers) music, and who better to kick off the season than Yeshiva...
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SPLASHNEWS-Review of Ari Goldwag-SOUL 2
@SPLASHNEWSUSA: If you are looking for a well-balanced, sefira album without music, (years ago that would not have made sense!) this is it! Ari Goldwag has been making music for a...
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Shimon’s Review of “A Cappella Soul 2″ by Ari Goldwag
I started caring about Jewish Music in earnest when I was in middle school, and the hottest singers among my circle of friends were not the MBDs and Avraham Frieds of the world—we were Miami Boys’...
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Shimon’s Review of “Hearts Mind” by Eli Schwebel
Jewish music has reached a bit of a comfort zone. Albums have a formula which listeners expect: 4 discos + 4 slow songs + 1 kumzitzy-“Shiru Lamelech”-type song + 1 or 2 rock songs (optional: 1...
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Shimon’s Review of “Am Yisroel” by R’ Nachman Seltzer and Shira Chadasha
The boys’ choir has always been a mainstay of Jewish music. From the earliest chassidishe choirs, to Amudei Shaish and Toronto Pirchei in the ‘70s, to Tzlil V’zemer and Miami in the ‘80s and ‘90s, to...
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Shimon’s Review of “A Time For Music XXVII: Celebrating 40 Years of Camp HASC”
Full disclosure: I love, love, love the annual HASC Concert. It is—and has been for many years—the flagship event of the Jewish Music industry, featuring many of the greatest stars of past, present,...
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