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Beirut Photos - Wash., D.C.

Check out Francis Chung's photos from Beirut's performance last night at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.  read more

The 50 Best Albums of 2011

Every day between now and New Year’s Day, we’ll be looking back at the best music and pop culture of 2011. We start with the year’s best albums. We had more than two dozen music critics vote, and 282 different albums showed up on their ballots.  read more

Bombay Beach

At first glance, Bombay Beach’s documentary depiction of a remote and impoverished community in the desert of southern California seems to fit squarely into a tradition in American art that aestheticizes small-town poverty....  read more

Beirut: Rock 'n' Roll Vagabond

Most European and European-emigrant folk music has been dominated by vowel sounds—the open-mouthed, airy sustain of trumpets, tubas, accordions, pump organs, even bowed violins. One reason the band Beirut sounds so fresh is that they’ve made room in rock for those vowel-sounding instruments.  read more

This Week’s New Album Releases (8/30/2011)

A lot of heavyweight's released new albums this week. Lil' Wayne finally dropped _Tha Carter IV_ teaching children everywhere how to spell incorrectly and about roman numerals. Another highly anticipated album, Red Hot Chili Peppers _I'm With You_, the first without John Frusciante also came out. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, released his third album under his Nightwatchmen name while the ever present Lenny Kravitz explored _Black and White America_ for his latest release.  read more

Paste mPlayer Issue 9 Is Live!

This week’s issue features Beirut, Robert Earl Keen, Jonny Corndawg, DC Comics’ overhaul, a look at God and the modern artist and more....  read more

Beirut: The Rip Tide

Zach Condon’s Beirut is in a funny position. He’s cut his teeth on staunchly outsider Balkan folk, but he’s also one of the premier indie-Billboard crossover successes. His band spans 11 members, but he primarily composes lighthearted, three-minute pop songs. He’s got all the trappings of a critic’s darling, but his pedigree has yet to position itself in the auteur company of singular songwriters like Justin Vernon and Will Oldham. With that propulsive buzz (and the fact that the third full-length in a career forms something of an arc) you might expect The Rip Tide to be a towering statement,...  read more

Stream Beirut's New Album The Rip Tide

Beirut’s new album The Rip Tide isn’t set to drop until August 30, but it is now streaming in its entirety online....  read more

Lollapalooza 2011 Day Two Recap

On Saturday, the skies opened up briefly at Lollapalooza; the early afternoon showers blew through quickly, thankfully, but it was long enough to transform much of the grounds into a giant mud pit.  read more

Beirut Pushes Album Release Date Forward

The next month was going to be a hard one for us. A whole four more weeks to wait to hear Zach Condon’s accordions sing over Beirut’s brand new 12-track release? It just seemed way too long....  read more