“Louder!” a woman hollered from the back of the auditorium. Onstage, Elam Rotem paused in the middle of a sentence. His eyebrows inched towards his hairline. It was a gentle night in late February, ...

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You’d be surprised how many YouTube followers thirst for oud music and ancient Hebrew texts translated into English. Thousands, maybe even millions, according to Talya G. A Solan, a musician who ...

JTA — For most musicians working in the under-appreciated genre of world music, recording an album with Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist of the famed English rock band Radiohead, would be something of a ...

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli record company, struggling against piracy, said on Wednesday it has launched a pay service for downloading Hebrew music that it hopes will lure local song swappers from free ...

When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...

The L.A. band Fool's Gold has really gotten off the ground in 2009. Formed over the past three years as a loose collection of friends, the group recorded its first album in the spring and embarked on ...

Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday after suffering from pneumonia. She was 83. Damari, ...

Nissren's performance on popular TV show strikes a chord with Israelis Occupied Jerusalem A young Arab woman who won a popular Israeli music competition has become an unlikely star, capturing ...

The late Al Jahara "AJ Maestro" Hebrew, 30, was well known for being able to play many instruments, but the one it appears he was best at was the heartstrings of everyone he met. "We were close. He ...

Drake’s legal troubles with the music publishing company Hebrew Hustle aren’t over yet. In 2014, Hebrew Hustle sued Drake over his sample of Jimmy Smith on his Nothing Was the Same track "Pound ...