Asaf Avidan

Do you feel that you’re an ambassador for Israel? Do you think music is a catalyst for social change? Having recorded a separate album with non-Mojo…

There are two glaring red flags indicating that a rock & roller has started to take himself too seriously – releasing a concept album and performing…

You sometimes have to leave home to appreciate whence you came. Daphna Sadeh is a walking, talking and playing example of that notion. “I have been…

Back in the Seventies there was an advertising drive by beer companies across Britain, to get people to consume beer at home and not only in the…

Asaf Avidan never aspired to be a musician, but four years ago he picked up his guitar and began writing songs, and it didn’t take long for him to…

Time is definitively an elusive dimension, and it’s hard to think of an element that is more precious or more habitually abused in this country.…

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Vienna. Ori Kaplan is truly a citizen of the world – the saxophonist for the Balkan Beat Box was born and raised in…

From the pristine coastline of Australia’s Byron Bay to the exotic villages of Goa to the hustle and bustle of Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin, Carlie…

Out of all the potential defenders of Israel against a cultural boycott, none would seem as unlikely as John Lydon, the crusty ex-punk who used to go…

If the excitement of the holidays is not enough, the Chol Hamoed Succot festivals around the country offer yet another chance for a family gathering…

If we can’t go anywhere, why, the world will come to us via the 2010/11 season of opera, dance and music at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center…

Thank goodness for dreadlocked musician Idan Raichel. Without knowing it, this singer-songwriter has all but saved the decade music-wise. It can be…

Going back to the year 2000, one can say that the decade began musically the way it did politically - rather bleakly. As Israeli youths learned to…

An informal, grassroots coalition of local human rights groups, including young members of the Israeli Left, has resulted in a dramatic increase in…

Some 390 Israeli residents were diagnosed with HIV last year out of some 2.7 million cases around the world, according to Health Ministry statistics…

Dafna Kenan never did get the sights and sounds of Paris out of her mind. Especially the sounds. 19 years after her father Rafi was appointed…

If you unknowingly stumbled upon a set by The Ramirez Brothers in one of the Tel Aviv area clubs they regularly perform in, you'd be forgiven for…

These are indeed the days of reckoning for Asaf Avidan and the Mojos - The Reckoning being the name of the 2008 album that has opened the gates of…

They've had it. And they're taking the situation into their own hands. The Jewish year 5769 marked a rise in young, driven, grassroots politics and…

There couldn't have been a better illustration to define the differences between mass pop culture and fringe pop culture. From left: Indie icon…