Showing posts with label Beirut. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Beirut releases album and tour details

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Beirut announced the release on their upcoming album The Riptide several weeks ago but I held off on covering it until and album cover was released. Well today is that day. Beirut's The Riptide is slated for an August 30th release date and the band will be hitting the road in support. The band is already currently on tour in Europe but here are some tour dates:

7/29 State Theater - Portland, Maine
7/31 Osheaga - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8/2 The Phoenix (with Owen Pallett) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8/4 The Phoenix (with Owen Pallett) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8/5-8/7 Lollapalooza - Chicago, Illinois
8/9 Commodore - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
8/10 Commodore - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
8/12 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, Oregon
8/14 Outside Lands - San Francisco, California
9/2 End of the Road Festival - Dorset, United Kingdom
9/4 Electric Picnic - Stradbally, Ireland
9/6 Manchester Academy - Manchester, United Kingdom
9/8 Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
9/12 Olympia - Paris, France
9/14 AB - Brussels, Belgium
9/16 Brixton Academy - London, United Kingdom
9/21 Terminal 5 - New York, New York
9/22 Terminal 5 - New York, New York
9/28 Fillmore Auditiorium - Denver, Colorado
10/4 Greek Theatre - Los Angeles, California
10/9 The Pageant - St. Louis, Missouri
10/11 Royal Oak Music Hall - Royal Oak, Michigan
10/25 The National - Richmond, Virginia
10/27 Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, Georgia
10/29 Stubbs Waller Creek - Austin Texas
11/11 Bogarts - Cincinnati, Ohio
11/13 Electric Factory - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Monday, June 6, 2011

Beirut premieres new single "East Harlem"

When Beirut started announcing tour dates, I foolishly didn't put two and two together. Tour = New Songs = Possible new album. I just thought he was going on tour for the fun of it and because it had been awhile. And then his latest track "East Harlem" surfaced. Which I wouldn't have known about without the combined effort of ListenBeforeYouBuy and Sam at MiddleClassWhiteNoise.

The new track could only be described as everything fans could want and more. It's a nice summery track featuring those lovely horn phrases with a reliance on the piano and Zach Condon's buttery vocals and vague hints of something resembling an accordion or concertina. If it's any indicator of how good it is, I've already listened to the track about 5 times since my discovery of the track around 10 minutes ago.

Hear the new track here:
Beirut - East Harlem by Revolver USA