Because Brooklyn-born, Long Island-based Steve Lieberman calls himself The Gangsta Rabbi, some people might wonder if perhaps My Magic Last Days contains some type of fusion of hip-hop and Jewish music (perhaps hip-hop meets klezmer). Well, there are musicians who have combined hip-hop and klezmer, but that isn't what happens on My Magic Last Days. This self-released 74-minute CD favors a combination of punk, thrash metal and industrial rock, and the material is extremely raw and jagged. My Magic Last Days doesn't pretend to be even remotely mainstream, which is a big part of its unpolished, self-indulgent charm. Lieberman (a singer, songwriter and producer who was born in 1958) has been playing in bands since the 1970s and is now 54. According to his publicity bio, Lieberman was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in September 2011 and has undergone extensive chemotherapy. My Magic Last Days was recorded from August 2011-June 2012; some of the material was recorded before the diagnosis, and some of it was recorded when he was receiving chemotherapy treatments. Various musicians have, over the years, made recordings during major illnesses; quite often, those recordings have had a wistful, introspective, sweetly contemplative quality. But My Magic Last Days, on the other hand, is a very noisy, in-your-face CD. My Magic Last Days rocks angrily and aggressively, recalling the primal rawness of early American and British punk.

MY LAST ROCK SHOW(LIVE)-(2012)

The RABBI IS DEAD(2011)

JEWISH ENGINEER 18(2010)

DiKtatoR 17(2009)

Diaspora(AFolk-Punk History of the Hebrew Nation) (2009)

Overthrow The Government(2008)

PSYCH WARD (2008)

SHAKE THE MISSILE BASE (2007)

LAST OF THE JEWISH PIRATES(2007)

MELANCHOLIA FALLING (2006)