Rockers add to Chanukkah playlist

Rolling Stone Magazine :

This year, Jews everywhere can retire "I Have a Little Dreidel" from mass rotation thanks to the ingenuity of Guster's lead singer, Adam Gardner, and Zambonis guitarist Dave Schneider. The two have formed a holiday-timed side project, the LeeVees, and will brighten the relatively sparse Hanukkah musical repertoire when they release Hanukkah Rocks on October 18th...
Another theme of Hanukkah Rocks is the alienation some Jewish kids feel during Christmas time; it's treated humorously, but still thoughtfully, on the song "Goyem Friends" (goyem is Yiddish for non-Jew). "That's a song for the Jewish kids so you can still hold your head high that you're Jewish even though all your non-Jewish friends are getting these kick-ass presents on Christmas and you're getting a six-pack of socks from your mom," Gardner says. "It's saying that you'll get yours in the end, so don't worry...

Anything is better than Adam Sandler's exhausting ditties.

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