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The Jewish Canadian rapper Drake accepts the Best Rap Song award for 'God's Plan' onstage during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards on February 10, 2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy/AFP)
February 11, 2019, 11:08 am
Rap sees landmark Grammy wins after years of snubs
Drake wins Best Rap Song as black hip-hop artists dominate nominations across the board for second consecutive year
By Maggy DONALDSON
My Father's Place, in Roslyn, New York. (Steve Rosenfeld)
August 14, 2018, 9:57 pm
How a Jewish kid from the burbs helped launch Springsteen and make music history
Three decades on, ‘Eppy’ Epstein reopens his iconic Long Island venue My Father’s Place, where some of the world’s most famous bands got their start
By Steven Davidson
Alan D. Abbey
April 13, 2018, 4:04 pm
Alan D. Abbey
A campfire with 12,000 of your closest friends
My wife and I stood at Koolulam’s latest songfest and it felt like a modern-day prayer
Israeli band 'Dag Nachash' celebrates the Israeil launch of Spotify, March 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 12, 2018, 7:44 pm
Spotify launches music streaming service in Israel
Israelis can now join 159 million people listening to catalog of 35 million songs, including tailor-made playlists
By TOI staff
A view of the old Tower Records in New York City, August 2005. (Peter Kramer/Getty Images via JTA)
March 7, 2018, 7:33 am
Tower Records founder Russ Solomon dies at 92
‘Larger than life’ character’s chain of stores revolutionized music retailing, until digital downloads ultimately forced its closure
By JTA
Sir Paul McCartney and wife Nancy Shevell attend the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014, in West Hollywood, California. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
May 25, 2017, 1:15 pm
50 years after ‘Sgt. Pepper’s,’ how Jews helped fill a Beatle’s lonely heart
From ‘Fifth Beatle’ Brian Epstein to two of his wives, Paul McCartney reached fame and fortune with a little help from his (Jewish) friends
By Robert Philpot
Nick R. Lieber
February 21, 2017, 2:39 pm
Nick R. Lieber
About that music biz Israel boycott
100s of musicians know better than to let BDS’s noise prevent them from performances that unify people like nothing else
In this Aug. 14, 2006 file photo, music industry veteran Jerry Heller is photographed in New York. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)
September 4, 2016, 4:59 am
Jerry Heller, N.W.A. manager turned nemesis, dead at 75
Jewish music promoter, who set up Elton John’s first US performance, played pivotal role in bringing gangsta rap into the mainstream
By SANDY COHEN
Eli 'Paperboy' Reed is a Jewish songwriter who mines a number of classic genres, such as blues, soul and gospel. (Courtesy of Yep Roc Records/via JTA)
September 3, 2016, 1:15 am
A Jewish rocker rediscovers his sonic roots teaching gospel music in Harlem
Influenced by his own classes, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed’s newest album came just in time to raise him up from the depths
By Gabe Friedman
In this June 27, 2007, file photo Lou Pearlman poses outside his office's at Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
August 22, 2016, 7:48 am
Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys founder, dies in prison
Jewish music producer and disgraced boy-band mogul, dead at 62, was serving a 25-year sentence for a massive Ponzi scheme
By Agencies
Illustrative image of a birthday cake. (Omer Wazir/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0)
June 28, 2016, 6:48 am
You can now sing ‘Happy Birthday’ royalty-free
Federal judge rules that the song, put to paper in Kentucky in 1893, is now in the public domain
By AFP
Noa
January 31, 2016, 1:13 pm
Noa
Creative dissonance
Beware separating artists from their art, when honoring musical accomplishment also rewards extreme racism
Producer Ariel Rechtshaid’s resume includes mainstream pop artists and lesser-known indie acts. (Michael Reich/via JTA)
October 17, 2015, 11:23 pm
The eclectic LA producer who mainstreams indie rock
From Madonna to Vampire Weekend, ‘super producer’ Ariel Rechtshaid makes his mark
By Gabe Friedman
Brian Epstein (left) with The Beatles on tour in 1964. (AP Photo)
September 30, 2015, 5:57 am
Brian Epstein, Beatles contract sells for $550,000
Anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s auction purchases 1962 agreement between the Fab Four and their Jewish manager
By TOI staff
Brian Epstein (left) with The Beatles on tour in 1964. (AP Photo)
September 26, 2015, 10:47 am
Brian Epstein’s contract with the Beatles goes on sale
1962 agreement between world’s most famous pop band and their Jewish manager is expected to fetch up to half a million pounds
By TOI staff
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