Video: New Beirut - East Harlem Live at MHOW

Beirut's Zach Condon wrote "East Harlem" when he was 17, but has only recently debuted live.



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Here he is performing it at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, care of baeblemusic.com.

It's worth sitting through the ads, I promise.

THE SEBASTOPOL MIXTAPE Vol. 3

Here for your listening pleasure, Volume 3 of the Sebastopol Mixtape, our own sampler of new, old, and interesting music.

This edition's hilights include new music from M. Ward and Beirut bandleader Zach Condon's Realpeople solo project, along with a rare song from the Walkmen's former incarnation Jonathan Fire*Eater.

Track List:

1. M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You (New)
2. Jonathan Fire*Eater - Make it Precious
3. Oxford Collapse - B-Roll
4. The Books and José González - Cello Song (from the Dark Was the Night comp
   Andrew Bird - Not a Robot, But a Ghost (New)
5. The Pop Group - Thief of Fire
6. Throw Me the Statue - Young Sensualists
7. Deerhoof - Chandalier Searchlight
8. The Black Angels - Doves
9. Realpeople - The Concubine (Zach Condon solo project) (New)
10. A.C. Newman - Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer
11. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - I Admit My Faults
12. Skeletons - The Things
13. The Verve - Star Sail
14. Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears - Evil
15. Thee Oh Sees - Two Drummers Disappear

Mediafire download link: pwned

EDIT: 1/30/09: So the Web Sheriff came a-knocking sometime this morning and sent me a friendly cease-and-desist comment (which you can read below). Hope you snagged that awesome Books track while you could!

I'll replace it with something special.

NEW Mediafire download link -> http://www.mediafire.com/?u0mz3jolxvt

New Beirut + Zach Condon Solo Throwback EP

Imagine my delight to return from a long debate layover in the Bay Area and discover I'd acquired a copy of the Gulag Orkestar's new EP.


Beirut/Realpeople - March of the Zapotec/Holland (out February 17th on Ba Da Bing!)

The result of a much documented excursion to Mexico, March of the Zapotec features six new Beirut songs recorded in collaboration with a Oaxacan funeral band. Holland, credited to Beirut frontman Zach Condon's newly dusted-off Realpeople monicre, is an odd collection of bedroom synthpop remiscent of 2007's archival Pompeii EP.

Beirut are currently working on their follow-up to 2007's album of the year (in my heart if not on the year-end-lists) The Flying Club Cup.


Mp3 -> Beirut - The Akara (from March of the Zapotec)




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