Every day until December 25, I’m writing about holiday music in my personal collection – but that doesn’t always mean Christmas tunes. Hanukkah starts at sundown Thursday, so let’s dig out the 2005 record from The LeeVees, “Hanukkah Rocks.”
Like The Ramones, every band member’s last name is LeeVee, but not really. Adam LeeVee is Adam Gardner from Guster and David LeeVee is Dave Schneider of The Zambonis, a band that writes and performs only songs about ice hockey. The tunes on “Hanukkah Rocks” are more about the cultural aspects of The Festival of Lights than the purely religious – “Latke Clan,” “Gelt Melts,” “At the Timeshare,” “Nun, Gimmel, Heh, Shin…” Here’s the video for “How Do You Spell Channukkahh?”