Jim Sullivan
By Jim Sullivan
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Culture How Adam Yauch graduated from bratty Beastie Boy to a man of wisdom and peace
It was the autumn of 1989 and people were starting to take the Beastie Boys seriously, or at least thinking the bratty band had been hit by a tiny lightning bolt of maturity. The Beastie Boys — Adam Yauch (MCA), Mike Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (King Ad-Rock) — weren’t sure if they wanted…
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Culture This punk rock legend survived the Holocaust — and she’s still singing and fighting
“Youse broads know howta play?!” That was the incredulous question — or maybe a slightly veiled accusation — that club owners would ask singer Genya Ravan, then Genyusha “Goldie” Zelkovicz, when she and her group, Goldie & the Gingerbreads, tried to book gigs during the early 1960s. Ravan had a defiant answer, evincing the…
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Culture How a legendary New Wave band got a new jolt of Jewish humor
We’re entering spring and lo and behold — wonders of wonders! — Devo once again walks among us. The band, which gestated in Akron, Ohio, as an agitprop art/music project during the early 1970s and came to fame a decade later during the punk/new wave era, is back, doing four shows in May. That’s one…
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Culture The ‘dark and funny’ song that Leonard Cohen would have nailed to a church door
Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here. Leonard Cohen gave us one of the most fierce, apocalyptic songs of…
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