Meet the Israeli Hip-Hop Artist Behind the Hebrew-Language Grateful Dead Cover Band
Last week, on a misty Thursday night in Brooklyn, The Promised Land, the world’s first and only Hebrew-language tribute to the Grateful Dead, wrapped up their three-night U.S. tour in what would seem like the exact opposite of Giants Stadium or Watkin’s Glen: a spacious (and astoundingly clean!) Brooklyn basement, with a low ceiling and a washer-dryer occupying a far corner. For a Dead fan, the unusually do-it-yourself setup recalled a classic lyric, one that The Promised Land hasn’t gotten around to translating into Hebrew just yet: “Everybody’s dancin’ down the local armory / With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery / The temperature keeps risin’, everybody gittin’ high / Come the rockin’ stroke of midnight, the whole place gonna fly!”
But would it? Could the Dead fly—in Hebrew?