Chanukah

Happy almost Hanukkah! It begins at sundown tonight (though from where I’m writing this I haven’t seen the sun at all today anyway) and as always, there are some musical events in NYC that you can attend to celebrate…

Sunday night was the second night of Yo La Tengo‘s annual Hanukkah Week residency at Maxwell’s with surprise openers Fred Armisen and Sun Ra Arkestra…

It’s a tradition! Yo La Tengo begin their eight sold out shows at Maxwell’s in recently-Sandy-ravaged Hoboken tonight, Saturday, December 8th, the first night of Hanukkah 2012…

The holiday season is upon us and addition to Yo La Tengo‘s eight-night run of annual Hanukkah shows at Hoboken, NJ venue Maxwell’s (12/8 – 12/15), there are a number of other Hanukkah celebrations, parties, and shows happening in the NYC area this December…

Jonathan Coulton and past collaborator/tourmate John Roderick (of The Long Winters) released a Christmas album, One Christmas At A Time, together with ten original Christmas songs by the two musicians (“actually one of them is a Chanukah song, so OK, nine…

As previously mentioned, The Sea & Cake, Mac McCaughan, Jon Benjamin & Jon Glaser stopped by at Maxwell’s last night for Yo La Tengo’s first of eight Hanukkah shows at Maxwell’s…

Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell’s, Hanukkah 2007 (more) Yo La Tengo, despite a scary health scare for Ira, will begin their eight nights of Hanukkah shows tonight at Maxwell’s…

Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell’s (Hanukkan 2008) (more by Natasha Ryan) Thanksgiving is not even a week past, but Hanukkah is already here and that means eight Yo La Tengo shows at Maxwell’s in Hoboken…

Jews rejoyce. Orrin Hatch, the Republican Mormon senator from Utah, has written a Hanukkah song: “Eight Days of Hanukkah.” As Hatch told the New York Times, “Anything I can do for the Jewish people, I will do…

Gods of Fire has crafted a uniquely original work that tells the story of Hanukkah through a rich fusion of heavy metal music, operatic vocals, traiditonal melodies, and a Klezmer soul…