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 ...

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 ...

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 will release their new album, No No No, on September 11 via 4AD. It was recorded in NYC over a two-week period during this past year’s brutal winter and you can stream the title track, and ...

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 ...

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 ...