We've been musically sub-genred to death over the last decade, with seemingly every minor variation of rock (and especially metal) assigned its own hyphen. And yet, no one has given Treyf-Rock it's due... until now.
I'm flying the flag — or maybe blowing the shofar — on behalf of this unsung, unclean genre in a "Top Ten Songs About Treyf" piece I wrote this week for the Jewish Daily Forward. The piece (which also includes some wonderfully humorous illustrations by Kurt Hoffman, like the one above) calls out everyone from Elvis Presley to Kanye West for their musical crimes against Jewish dietary law. Check it out...
My one regret is forgetting to include Cream's "Pressed Rat and Warthog" in the list. I (and probably just about everyone else) would rather listen to Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" on a 24/7 loop than eat a dish as vile as that one...