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About Me

Alicia Jo Rabins started playing a very small violin at age three.Since then she has played all over the world: in the woods of West Virginia, the streets of Baltimore, the clubs of New York City, the marinas of Rio Dulce Guatemala, a museum in Paris, a boardwalk in Brooklyn, and lots of places in between.
You may often find her sitting on her bed with a beat-up Kay guitar, writing songs. Or playing the fiddle, whether old-time (traditional Appalachian dance music, with banjos and stuff) or klezmer (Eastern European Jewish party music, with Slivovitz).
In 2004 she packed up her things and moved to Brooklyn to join folk-punk-klezmer-rock band GOLEM, who have been accurately called "a garage band without the guitars who play Yiddish songs." Or, as NPR described them in a recent review, "Punky joy."
When she's not touring, she lives in Brooklyn with her 2 fiddles, 2 guitars, banjo, soprano uke, banjo uke, accordion, roommates, and various houseplants.

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Member Since: 12/4/2005
Band Website: aliciajo.com
Band Members: Alicia Jo Rabins, fiddle, vocals, ukes and other plucky things

the Halo Boys features a rotating cast of handsome gentlemen playing old-time on guitars, banjos, mandolins, upright basses, melodicas, glockenspiels, and cajun triangles.
Influences: Hazel Dickens, Hasil Adkins, Tom Waits, innumerable recordings of old-time fiddlers, Richard Buckner, Joanna Newsom, the Walkmen, Jolie Holland, Beausoleil, J.S. Bach, Charles Ives, Astor Piazzolla, PJ Harvey, Emily Dickinson, and last but not least, Laurie Anderson.
Sounds Like: i play all sorts of fiddle music. sometimes it sounds like a barn in North Carolina. sometimes it sounds like a tiny village in Eastern Europe. sometimes it sounds like a big Jewish wedding. sometimes it sounds like a dying cat. sometimes it sounds like a man sobbing. sometimes it sounds like laughing. sometimes it sounds a little bit avant-garde. sometimes it sounds like the colors i dreamt about the night before.
Record Label: Not Yet
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

i love paris

yes, i do i do, c'est vrai.i love the centre pompidou even though i am supposed to think it's ugly.i love the people who came to our shows in paris and danced.i love the pain au chocolat i got on the ...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:32:00 PST

K RECORDS SLEEPOVER

Last week, Helsing Junction - the K Records sleepover at an organic farm in Washington State.First we stopped by Olympia Washington, where people seem to be doing these amazing things designing and se...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST

sxsw 2007, without any guitars

Our first hint that SXSW was going to be different from anywhere we'd been was the way people on our plane were dressed. Usually when we fly, most people don't look like us. They carry babies instead ...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:09:00 PST

backstage in chicago

backstage in chicago. golem is done & balkan beat box is playing right now. one of my favorite things: clubs with free wireless. and this black cat that is climbing over my body as i type. apparentl...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:12:00 PST

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EYE

scene: the Golden Gate Bridge. soft purple hills on the Sausalito side. the bay glistening below. red arches against the blue sky.Alicia rides slowly across. Golem has a show in San Francisco and...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:17:00 PST

think coffee

it's hot in new york city. it's summer. tonight i played at Think Coffee with Sarah, Taylor, and Stuart. think coffee is where jen works and i'm always happy to play in a place with such beautif...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:57:00 PST

dresden dolls!

yeahhhhh. i flew back from mexico a day early to open for the dresden dolls with golem at The Egg in Albany...you can read all about mexico on my www.aliciajo.com blog but here i am just going to writ...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:25:00 PST

another cd being born

a while ago, Annette & I (the Golem Girls), after doing a fair amount of duo gigs together, figured we should make a record of what it is that we do.and so right before we went to England in December,...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:30:00 PST

done tracking...

yeah four days in the studioit was craaaaaaazysometimes it was just like a party and sometimes (certain songs) it was like splitting myself in half and playing straight from my guts. i will leave out...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:39:00 PST

the golem is insane

things are crazy good with golem right now...we just got a record deal (!) with JDUB...who brought you matisyahu, balkan beat box and socalled... we went out to dinner with them and met the producer e...
Posted by Alicia Jo on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:17:00 PST