Lebanon Gets Artsy Revisited

We previously spoke about the up-and-coming Lebanese band Mashrou3 Leila

The band held their release party for their self-titled first album at a steel factory on the edge of Beirut last month. 1,000 fans bought the albums, which sold out completely, and hundreds were left without copies of the album.

Check out this article on the band and the show.

Congrats!

~LZ

For all you Lebanese in Paris...

If you guys are in Paris and interested in listening to some Lebanese underground bands tonight and tomorrow night, check out L'international in the 11th arrond.

Tonight The New Government and Lumi (my personal fav) are playing

Tomorrow it's Scrambled Eggs and Rayess Bek (who raps in Arabic and French)

If you want to listen to their music to see if you're into it, you can see each of their MySpace pages which is linked to from the L'international site. (Check out "Two Tears" or "Staying Here" by Lumi or "Samm" by Rayess Bek)

Entrance is free and drinks are cheap--so why not?

I'm going to be there tonight, maybe tomorrow, so see you there? :)

~LZ

Arabic Sound Bite n° 1

So I know that there are significantly more important things happening now in Lebanon like the release of 4 of the suspected murderers of Hariri, but forgive me for not wanting to get into that right now.

Instead, I am sure everyone would benefit much more for from watching this monstrosity, and then proceeding to mark it on Youtube as Inappropriate Content so that it gets permanently removed and minimal damage is done to the reputation of Lebanese music.

I give you "Funky Arabs" by il moutrib Jad Choueiri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4D6hJA846M

My god man, what were you thinking??? REALLY?

How did this man come out of the same country as Fairouz?

~LZ