Zach Condon and Beirut's Perrin Cloutier contributed this sweet, ostensibly Parisian-themed instrumental track "The 11th Arrondissement" to the Paper Heart soundtrack. As the song fades gently to black, you might be left wanting Condon to break into a croon, but... CONTINUE READING NEW ZACH CONDON & PERRIN CLOUTIER - "THE 11TH ARRONDISSEMENT" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on August 3, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties | Beirut | Paper Heart | Perrin Cloutier | Zach Condon
Coachella is already the most fashionable of the summer festivals by virtue of its proximity to Los Angeles, so this year the NYT ran with the glam, taking a bagful of high fashion garments and draping them on a bunch... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCKERS PLAY DRESS-UP FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES»
Posted on July 17, 2009 (23 comments)
Tags: Ariel Pink | Beirut | Brandon Flowers | Coachella | Conor Oberst | Friendly Fires | Gang Gang Dance | Girl Talk | Ida Maria | Jenny Lewis | Lykke Li | Morrissey | No Age | Public Enemy | Robert Smith | Rye Rye | The Cure | The Killers | The Kills | Vivian Girls
"The Concubine" comes from the Holland portion of Zach Condon's fantastic double-EP release from earlier this year. It's the EP for which he dusted off his old Realpeople moniker and got back to playing with laptops and keys. That said,... CONTINUE READING NEW BEIRUT VIDEO - "THE CONCUBINE"»
Posted on June 16, 2009 in (14 comments)
Tags: Beirut
When we saw Beirut's shows at MHOW and BAM, I mentioned Zach's lilting new/old ukulele love song "East Harlem" (written when he was 17, unveiled in February) had him embracing his inner Stephin Merritt. We posted a shitty clip once,... CONTINUE READING NEW BEIRUT - "EAST HARLEM" (LIVE AT MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG)»
Posted on April 2, 2009 in (13 comments)
Tags: Beirut
Seeing as this has already been Beirut week on Stereogum.com, I'll save my trademark purple prose in dissecting this show for the Year's Best Concerts post in December. Except for the next bunch of graphs because, really, it seems this... CONTINUE READING BEIRUT & THE VASSAR ORKESTAR @ BAM, BROOKLYN 2/6/09»
Posted on February 9, 2009 in , (15 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Kaki King | Kings Of Convenience | Real Estate
Who had the better week: Beirut or college-band geeks? Well Zach played three sold-out shows in Brooklyn (including a secret gig in Greenpoint to kick it off) and made his network television debut at the Ed Sullivan Theatre on Friday... CONTINUE READING BEIRUT PLAYED "A SUNDAY SMILE" FOR LETTERMAN, NEW SONG "EAST HARLEM" FOR BROOKLYN»
Posted on February 9, 2009 in (21 comments)
Tags: Beirut | David Letterman | Kings Of Convenience | Real Estate
Irony at the outset last night. In the middle of her outstanding opening set (more on that later), Tune Yards' Merrill Garbus said, "I play a tenor ukulele. Zach plays a concert ukulele. I guarantee Zach's will sound better because... CONTINUE READING TUNE-YARDS/INLETS/BEIRUT @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 2/4/09»
Posted on February 5, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Inlets | tUnE-YaRdS
A couple weeks ago we premiered the video for Beirut's "La Llorona," a track from the forthcoming March Of The Zapotec EP. As mentioned earlier, it comes packaged with another EP, Holland, which includes five solo Condon home recordings under... CONTINUE READING BEIRUT BRINGS HIS "CONCUBINE" TO GREENPOINT»
Posted on January 27, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Bumbershoot | U.S.E.
The last time we pleaded with you to get obsessed with pop savant Shugo Tokumaru came in relation to the fantastical, Beatles-indebted toy-factory waltz of "Green Rain." Like the best of Shug's material it features him on so many instruments... CONTINUE READING SHUGO TOKUMARU DOES "GREEN RAIN" ON IGGY, JOINED BY MEMBERS OF BEIRUT AND THE NATIONAL ONSTAGE»
Posted on January 26, 2009 in , (14 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Bumbershoot | Jason Mraz | Shugo Tokumaru | The National
A while ago we mentioned that Zach Condon headed to Oaxaca, Mexico -- the weaver village of Teotitlan del Valle to be exact -- and hooked up with the 19-piece Jimenez Band band, who helped him get the sounds he... CONTINUE READING NEW BEIRUT VIDEO - "LA LLORONA" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on January 14, 2009 in (24 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Q-Tip
There a few more days of pretending to look busy at work ahead, but as far as our iTunes are concerned 2009 can't get here soon enough. We're done with the lists. It's time for the new. We pored over... CONTINUE READING THE 20 ALBUMS WE'RE MOST EXCITED TO HEAR IN 2009 »
Posted on December 19, 2008 in (257 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Antony And The Johnsons | Antony Hegarty | Beirut | Black Lips | Blikk Fang | Dan Deacon | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | Kings Of Convenience | Lightning Bolt | Lily Allen | M. Ward | Mastodon | MGMT | Morrissey | of Montreal | The Dead Weather | The Decemberists | U2 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
At the end of the summer we premiered "The Butcher," from Spectrum, 14th Century, the first of Final Fantasy's two new EPs. (Later, it earned itself a joyfully bloody Jesi The Elder-directed video.) To recap: The five-track EP is a... CONTINUE READING NEW FINAL FANTASY VIDEO - "BLUE IMELDA"»
Posted on November 14, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Final Fantasy
But do they bring their "A" game? (Sorry.) The band, seemingly piloted by Arcade Fire/Beirut member Kelly Pratt, includes LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney on drums plus Jon Natchez and Perrin Cloutier from Beirut and Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire.... CONTINUE READING ARCADE FIRE & BEIRUT MEMBERS JOIN TEAM B»
Posted on November 5, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Beirut | LCD Soundsystem | Popo
Zach Condon has left the France of The Flying Club Cup for a pair of EPs due out in February: The six song March Of The Zapotec recorded, in part, in Mexico and Holland, at least Dutch in name, five... CONTINUE READING BEIRUT GOES TO MEXICO & HOLLAND FOR A PAIR OF EPS»
Posted on October 30, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Ponytail | Zach Condon
Unpredictable violinist and videogame fan Owen Pallett, aka sage advice giver, aka Final Fantasy, has cobbled together a pair of excellent post-He Poos Clouds EPs due for release this fall. The first to arrive is the five-song Spectrum, 14th Century,... CONTINUE READING NEW FINAL FANTASY - "THE BUTCHER" & "ULTIMATUM" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on August 26, 2008 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Andrew Bird | Beirut | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Coachella | Final Fantasy | Late Of The Pier | The Hidden Cameras
Photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Last month, young master Condon bailed on a string of European dates with a letter posted on his site, saying: "It's come time to change some things, reinvent some others, and come back at some... CONTINUE READING BEIRUT SHOWS SOME SPANISH STYLES @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 5/18/08»
Posted on May 19, 2008 in , (15 comments)
Tags: Beirut
Mother's Day is this weekend. Hopefully you haven't forgotten. If you did, then hopefully you've done something great enough that your poor mom can get by on motherly pride alone. Like, for instance, over at emusic, there's a dang cute... CONTINUE READING MAMMAS, LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE INDIE ROCKERS»
Posted on May 8, 2008 (4 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Bon Iver | High Places | Holy Fuck | Lost
Stereogum's tag cloud hovers above The Paper Of Record today, with profiles on Brooklyn alt-rockers in Arts & Leisure and an indie rock dress-up cheat sheet in the Men Styles Magazine. Consider it a print version of the story run... CONTINUE READING NY TIMES PROFILES BROOKLYN'S EXPERIMENTAL (AND STYLISH) INDIE ROCKERS»
Posted on March 8, 2008 in (47 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Battles | Beirut | Deerhunter | Dirty Projectors | Dragons Of Zynth | Gang Gang Dance | Grizzly Bear | High Places | MGMT | Vampire Weekend | Yeasayer
Hey, David Byrne and the Boss aren't the only old-school rockers keeping abreast of the new, crazy sounds. Turns out Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood has a new musical obsession. ... CONTINUE READING RONNIE WOOD GETS A NEW MUSIC WOODIE»
Posted on December 6, 2007 (5 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Rolling Stones | Ronnie Wood
Just about two years ago, Grizzly Bear gave us an advance taste of Yellow House with "On A Neck, On A Spit," initiating a run that has metamorphosed the outfit from an alias for Ed Droste's bedroom sonic collages into... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR - FRIEND EP (AND THE LAST CHANCES TO SEE 'EM LIVE FOR ABOUT A YEAR)»
Posted on November 2, 2007 in (3 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear
She once extolled the virtues of the Shins, and lives definitely were changed forever (though most of those lives belonged to the Shins themselves). And things are already on the (way) up and up for Greenpoint ambassador Beirut, but a... CONTINUE READING NEW BEIRUT (AKA NATALIE PORTMAN'S FAVORITE BAND) - "MY NIGHT WITH THE PROSTITUTE FROM MARSEILLE"»
Posted on October 26, 2007 (8 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Natalie Portman
Owen Pallett's back with some post-He Poos Clouds Final Fantasy as a part of Tomlab's Alphabet Single series. The two tracks on X, recorded in Montreal with Zach Condon, predate the tunes on the full-length. If you remember, Pallett sings... CONTINUE READING NEW FINAL FANTASY (FEAT. ZACH CONDON) - "HEY DAD"»
Posted on October 22, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Final Fantasy
