Two decades ago, the song “King Without a Crown” placed Matisyahu upon a unique, expressive throne. Overtly spiritual, noted for beatboxing and rapid-fire free verse stylings, he performed in yarmulke ...

Matisyahu, the ultra-Orthodox US Jewish rapper with bushy beard and sidelocks who shocked fans by shaving it all off last year, has surfaced in Jerusalem with a new bottle-blonde hairdo. The ...

Matisyahu will make a special appearance at Mt Vernon, NY’s Nuna Harvest dispensary this Sunday, November 30, as part of Light It Up Live Before the Light. The event, which is being billed as a ...

Matisyahu’s new EP, “Hold the Fire,” is centered around the question of how to stay inspired as a music artist the further one goes into a career. It’s a topic that resonated strongly for the ...

Matisyahu has shared details about his 18th annual Festival of Lights Hanukkah shows, which will take place at two locations this holiday season. The yearly observance and musical event begins on ...

Since he first caught listeners’ attention with his 2005 live album, “Live at Stubb’s,” Matisyahu has concentrated on writing songs to stand the test of time, singing and rapping about the Jewish ...

With his 2004 debut “Shake Off the Dust…Arise,” rapper Matisyahu broke onto the scene blending hip-hop, reggae and rock sounds in high-energy songs that explored Judaism and faith. But Matisyahu, who ...

“Hasidic Jewish reggae rapper” sounds like an anomaly at best and a novelty at worst. But anything closer than a cursory listen to Matisyahu’s words and music discovers a serious artist with strong ...

It's hard to wrap the mind around the apparent contradictions married in the persona of Matisyahu. Here is a man who spent his midteen years dosing on hallucinogens and following the jam-band Phish, ...

One is a contemporary Hebrew reggae rapper and the other is reggae royalty — together, Matisyahu and Stephen Marley make for one hell of a synergistic rasta duo. Though the Hasidic rapper may have ...

The idiosyncratic Matisyahu debuts his new group project, Cloud Runner, at Bowery Ballroom tonight. Guitarist Aaron Dugan, bassist Jason Fraticelli and drummer Mark Guiliana have played with the ...