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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I noticed the swelling of the double bass first, quickly followed by the fluttering of brushed cymbals. A saxophone pushing ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At some of Beirut's most popular nightclubs, where the Middle East's jet set would gather and dance into the early hours, the music has stopped and disco balls are gathering dust ...

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 ...

If you, like Zach Condon, get to go to the distant Norwegian island of Hadsel, you’ll also find an octagonal 19th-century church with an organ in it. Condon, who has released music as Beirut since ...

At nearly an hour runtime, Beirut’s A Study of Losses is Zach Condon‘s most extended release to date. Condon was approached by Viktoria Dalborg, director of the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, and ...

Beirut, or indie-folk singer-songwriter Zach Condon, has shared the cautiously hopeful “The Tern,” the latest single from his upcoming album Hadsel. “The base of this song comes from an old Roland ...

Beirut is the moniker of 20-year-old Brooklyn resident Zach Condon, a high school dropout who spent some time in eastern Europe soaking up the culture and music styles of the "old world." By Billboard ...

With a blend of indie rock and traditional Eastern European folk music, Beirut has always stood out as a highly original and unusual band. Now, with their sixth studio album, Hadsel (out November 10 ...

Beirut, the nom de plume of indie-folk singer-songwriter Zach Condon, travels to remote Norway and returns with Hadsel, his first new album in four years. The LP, due out Nov. 10 via Beirut’s own ...

In a hilly residential district in the suburbs of Beirut, under the ground-level car park of an indistinct apartment building, stands a statue of the Virgin Mary and a neon sign with the words ...