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The 20-year-old had pulled together the three musicians for his band, Beirut, only weeks before. His eBay ukulele would not stay in tune. He fumbled with his trumpet and flashed a sheepish smile ...
Zach Condon, the creative force behind the band Beirut, toured hard in 2019 until his body said stop in the one way he couldn't ignore. ZACH CONDON: Because it tried getting me sick. It tried ...
Zach Condon says he was half-joking when he named his band Beirut: "I was kind of poking fun at myself," he says with a chuckle, "and some of my more exotic tastes in music at the time." ...
Then score some tickets to Beirut at The Pabst Theater this Thursday, Feb. 21. MKE Band Camp is a music series on OnMilwaukee, giving you the quick 411 on upcoming concerts in the 414. Frontman ...
After issuing two stellar albums in as many years as Beirut-- 2006's Gulag Orkestar and 2007's The Flying Club Cup-- and traveling the world with his increasingly large band, Condon pulled out of ...
For the past several weeks, Steven and Ian have planned to do a mailbag segment on the show. But they always end up yapping for too long, and the segment inevitably ends up getting bumped.
“What’s wrong with Beirut?” This is the question the Lebanese band Adonis asks in their new, soon-to-be-released album of the same name “Men Shou Bteshki Beirut?” Comprised of vocalist ...
And now that the MP3 blogs have done Tapes 'n' Tapes a solid, we collectively turn our attention to Zach Condon's Beirut. GVB and Catbirdseat first alerted us to the project of this Albuquerque ...