You can catch the strains of Jewish music floating through many of our favorite blogs today. Check out the following:

JDub Records points us towards two articles on Palestinian Music in the NYTimes

…I know we usually focus on the more pop end of the music spectrum here on the JDub blog, but I wonder if any of you classically trained musicians have been as fascinated as I am by this week’s twin articles about Palestinian classical music in the New York Times…

Jewcy has a piece on vocalist Inbar Bakal’s debut album Song of Songs

…Considering the religious allusion in the title of Inbar Bakal’s debut album and the fact that this child of Yemenite and Iraqi parents was raised in a traditional househould that had little in common with the faux Southern Californian cultural scene of beachfront Tel Aviv, it makes perfect sense that her music sounds a little behind the times. But the era to which she transports us is not the pre-modern world so much as the 1980s…

The DCJCC’s blog 16th St and Q sings the praises of Six Points Fellow Jeremiah Lockwood and the Sway Machinery at the Washington Jewish Music Festival

…One of the less expected, and thus one of the more thrilling fusions of American and Jewish music comes to the Washington Jewish Music Festival Sunday night courtesy of Jeremiah Lockwood and The Sway Machinery. Imagine David Bowie channeling Robert Johnson as your cantor. Better than that…