Rock

Los Angeles Rock ’n Roll Fantasy Camp offers October 7 survivors rare respite from trauma

Three years after that devastating day in October, the survivors continue to do what their people have done for millennia in the face of adversity: sing and make music.

Raz Shifer of Ramat Gan, a Nova Festival survivor, performs at L.A.'s Viper Room in a scene from "The Bridge," a documentary about Israeli trauma survivors and their week at Rock ’n Roll Fantasy Camp.
A view of Silwan, next to the Old City of Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque, November 13, 2024; illustrative.

Police investigate shots fired in Silwan after alleged stone-throwing incident

 A microscopic view of buried basalt from Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov. This image shows olivine basalt recovered from the Eshel Ya‘aqov borehole, examined as a thin section under polarized light to reveal its minerals and texture. Image taken under cross-polarized light (XPL); scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Ancient humans precisely navigated northern Israel to find right stones for tools, study suggests

Israeli singer and songwriter Esther Shamir.

Pioneering Israeli rock singer-songwriter Astar Shamir dies at 71


Skeleton-like Mars rock formation sparks internet excitement

"In 20 years of studying Mars, that's the most bizarre rock I have ever seen," said one astrobiologist about the spiky rocks.

 Fishbone-like rock formations in the Gale crater on Mars

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood made an album with Israeli rocker Dudu Tassa

Greenwood, who is married to Israeli visual artist Sharona Katan, has recorded guitar on albums by Tassa and fellow Israeli Shye Ben Tzur before.

Rock musician Dudu Tassa performs solo

Jewish indie rocker Blondshell takes inspiration from Larry David and Sarah Silverman

On-the-rise Sabrina Teitelbaum isn't afraid to put her Jewishness out there.

 A guitar lies across a piano.

The Black Keys to make Israel debut this summer

Their latest album is Dropout Boogie, also the name of the tour that will bring them to Europe this summer and their final date, in Israel for the first time.

 THE BLACK KEYS

These ‘living rocks’ in Romania are able to grow and even move

The “living rocks” are native to Costesti, a small town north of Bucharest and the home of extremely unique rocks that are hard to find elsewhere.

 Costesti, Romania.

Disturbed on their way back to Israel this summer

Lead singer and staunch Israel supporter David Draiman: Roger Waters is cordially invited.

 DISTURBED, WITH David Draiman (third from left)

UK rock band Camel is returning to Israel for 50th anniversary show

The show will take place at the even grander Caesarea Amphitheater on May 22.

 CAMEL, WITH Andrew Latimer (left).

Israeli guitarist Yitzhak Klepter passes away at 72

One of Klepter's solos was rated as the greatest guitar solo in the history of Israeli music in 1997.

 Guitarist Yitzhak Klepter of the Israeli rockband Kaveret.

Russian exiles to rock Tel Aviv

Perhaps the best-known act, Sonic Death celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. The self-described power trio originally hails from St. Petersburg and is currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

 Diana Burkot, Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova, activists and members of Russian punk music group Pussy Riot, critical of the country's regime, perform during the band's anti-war concert tour, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at Shedhalle concert hall in Berlin, Germany May 12, 2022

Al Stewart makes history in his historically-driven performance

Stewart, the Scottish folk-rocker, looks and plays the part of a 77-year-old veteran who has been writing and singing for over five decades.

 Al Stewart and the Empty Pockets perform at Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv on November 8, 2022.