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


Disturbed's David Draiman to light candle at site of Eli Kay murder

Draiman said he wanted to make a statement by coming to Israel.

 DISTURBED, WITH David Draiman (third from left)

Counting Crows to visit Israel, set to perform in April

The California-based band is best known for their iconic song “Mr. Jones” will perform on April 20 in Park Ra'anana.

 ADAM DURITZ, lead singer for Counting Crows, performs o in New York’s Central Park in 2012.

Van Halen’s proudly Jewish former frontman, is retiring from music

Jewish rock star David Lee Roth, 66, grew up with Jewish parents and reportedly first learned to sing while preparing for his bar mitzvah. Now he is retiring.

Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen performs at Tiger Jam XI in Las Vegas April 19, 2008. Tiger Jam, an AT&T sponsored event, is a fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Foundation which funds a variety of youth programs.

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80

Charlie Watts, widely regarded as one of the coolest men in rock during his nearly 60 years as a drummer with the Rolling Stones, has died peacefully.

 Charlie Watts drums for his second band besides The Rolling Stones, The ABC&D of Boogie Woogie, in the Casino in Herisau, Switzerland on January 13th, 2010.

Bob Dylan sued for allegedly sexually abusing 12-year-old girl in 1965

Jewish rock star Bob Dylan is being sued by a woman who says he sexually abused her when she was 12. A lawyer for Dylan vigorously denied the charges.

 Rock musician Bob Dylan performs at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, US, May 5, 2004.

'We'll scream our pain': Gaza's first rock band, Osprey V, takes wing

Gaza's first rock band is ready to step into the limelight with songs steeped in the emotions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian accountant, Raji El-Jaru, sings and plays the guitar during a rehearsal for the first rock music band Osprey V in Gaza City August 1, 2021. Picture taken August 1, 2021.

Jewish entrepreneur David Fishof premiers 'Rock Camp' film in Jerusalem

Fishof, an Orthodox Jew from New York, became a sports agent and then a music promoter who worked with dozens of high-profile acts.

DAVID FISHOF (right), with Roger Daltrey and Slash at a Rock Camp event.

Court: Law punishing parents for childrens' rock-throwing illegal

A lawyer for Adalah - the NGO which filed the appeal to the High Court - said it is an "invalid, discriminatory and vengeful tool that violates the basic principles of criminal law."

Palestinian boy hurls stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank

Miki Gavrielov teams up with Aussie rocker for song in English

The opening stanza spells it out in no uncertain terms: “A world’s gone crazy. The world’s gone mad. My mind gets hazy. It feels so bad.”

MIKI GAVRIELOV teams up with David Lowy.

Israeli metal band Orphaned Land to team up with Chamber Opera Orchestra

In 2014, the band won the "Global Metal" award from the magazine Metal Hammer, and in recent years has done other collaborations with prominent musicians in the world of metal.

Israeli metal band Orphaned Land.