BEIRUT, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A Lebanese hospital brought music and medicine together on Friday in a concert for cancer patients. "Music has healing power, it gives hope," said Laura Lahoud from the ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HEAD OF MARKETING AT FACTORY PEOPLE THAT OWNS AHM AND THE GRAND FACTORY NIGHTCLUBS, SAMER MAKAREM, SAYING: "At midnight on Saturdays, the club would be full, our Saturday parties ...

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 ...

Seems like most indie music fans had no idea that the Balkan’s had their own unique brand of folk music before Zach Condon started mining that territory for sonic gold under his Beirut moniker.

Diva: From Umm Kulthum to Dalida, showing at Beirut’s Sursock Museum, celebrates legendary singers, actresses and dancers ...

As you may have noticed, we made a few changes around here over the weekend. Did some redecorating, if you will. Naturally, with that sort of thing comes a little bit of stress for your humble UPROXX ...

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 ...

Rock ’n’ roll has always been dominated by instruments that sound like consonants. The click of a pick against guitar strings, the pop of fingers against keys or bass or the snap of sticks against ...

Unconventional, orchestral indie band Beirut takes the road less traveled in both a musical and physical sense in the new music video for their song “Gilbraltar.” Accompanied by a strong, steady hand ...

August 28, 2015; Washington, DC – The 2015 fall calendar is unusually rich with album releases, and NPR Music is kicking off the season with live performances of anticipated new music. In the second ...

It was a long, dusty trail to the Tiny Desk. Beirut had just finished a show at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., where it had been a brutal 100-plus degrees outside. Without a chance to bathe between ...