Beirut pulls out all the bells and whistles (almost literally) on its newest record, The Rip Tide, and though I had all but reserved my appreciation of baroque-pop for the likes of Sufjan Stevens and ...

BEIRUT, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A Lebanese hospital brought music and medicine together on Friday in a concert for cancer patients. "Music has healing power, it gives hope," said Laura Lahoud from the ...

My first introduction to Beirut was when a good friend slid me the album Gulag Orkestar (2006) after I complained of having too much work to catch up on. I hesitantly popped the disc in to my computer ...

When you talk about Beirut, you’re really talking about Zach Condon. The 25-year-old is the lead singer, sole songwriter and main musical force behind the critically acclaimed six-member outfit that ...

Her most famous song, "Batwanes Beek," begins with string instruments creating a typical sound of Arab orchestras. The song builds with more and more sounds until an accordion finally strikes up the ...

Beirut’s performance at First Avenue on December 2 was one of the more transformative stage shows I’ve seen at that venue. No, they didn’t show up with a semi truck bearing six-food hydraulic pumping ...

Beirut (aka Zach Condon and his band) has announced a new album, A Study of Losses, recorded for a Swedish circus, and shared a new song from it, “Guericke’s Unicorn,” via a music video. A Study of ...

Zach Condon debuted his indie-folk project Beirut in 2005, and though he expanded it from a solo project to a full-fledged band in 2006, he’s continued to work with the same building blocks that made ...

Walking into the Music Hall of Williamsburg last night (7/5), I realized that I knew nothing about WOOM, the opening act, but I was pleasantly surprised by their set (erratic sound quality aside). The ...

Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival is a borough-wide celebration of Brooklyn’s musical talent, comprising mainstage events at BAM (performances by Beirut, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Kaki King, and ...

Hadsel is a small town way up in the northern part of Norway with a population of just over 8,000—a place where vast, snow-tipped mountains are reflected in calm, slate-black waters. It’s just the ...

You all might’ve heard of a little band called Beirut, the vision of New Mexico wunderkind Zach Condon, whose debut album, Gulag Orkestar, was extraordinarily well received by music critics. But the ...