Beirut, with Helado Negro, at Palace Theatre, St Paul (23 Feb 2019)
Beirut at Palace
Beirut Setlist
Varieties of Exile
Family Curse
Postcards From Italy
The Shrew
The Rip Tide
Scenic World
Light in the Atoll
Elephant Gun
After the Curtain
Gauze für Zah
Serbian Cocek (A Hawk and a Hacksaw cover)
In the Mausoleum
-- Encore --
Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)
My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille
The Gulag Orkestar
Released as one of the first bands to be performing at Northside, Brooklyn-based band Beirut will be gracing listeners' ears with the incredible blend of horns, strings, percussion, and electronic sounds to create their …
Show up early to see Helado Negro, who we saw in June 2016, writing, "Helado Negro ("black ice cream" in English) is the musical alias of South Florida native Roberto Carlos Lange and who has made several trips locally, enough that ...
Indie rock/world music band Beirut just headlined the Palace Theatre in St Paul on Saturday, February 23rd.
The show started with Helado Negro (stagename for Roberto Carlos Lange), playing as a trio with violinist/multi-instrumentalist Angela Morris and saxophone player Nathaniel Morgan. Each person wore a color, Morris in red, Lange in yellow, and Morgan in blue. The stage lighting also corresponded with each section of the stage, giving off a sense that it wasn't just a concert, but also as an art piece.
After saying, "hola!" and introducing himself, Lange fondly remembered the last two times he was in the city, at the Northern Spark Outdoor show in 2016 and Ordway Concert Series in 2015 (which we covered both shows). He seemed to be enjoying the Minnesota area, despite being the "snowiest month" (since December 2010) in Minnesota.
Most of Helado Negro's strict 40-min set were songs in Spanish, and most of his set were brand new songs from his forthcoming album This Is How You Smile (out March 2019). New songs included "Running" (which needed audience participation) and "Seen My Aura" (which had a long story about how it was taken from an idea and book that meant a lot to Lange).
The band ended their set with "Young, Latin and Proud" and mentioned that they had a very long drive ahead of them, stating it will take them 27 hours.
It's been seven years since Beirut played the Cabooze (July 2012)... so there were a lot of eager old fans very excited to hear some of their old favorite Beirut songs played live. In fact, many old (forgotten) songs were greeted with loud cheers from the audience ("Varieties of Exile", "No No No", "Postcards From Italy", etc.) and can be heard pretty much throughout the band's set. It's clear that fans really missed Beirut.
Since the band's music requires a variety of world music and instruments and sound, the group is rather large, consisting of band leader Zach Condon, trumpeter Kyle Resnick, trombone player Ben Lanz, drummer Nick Petree, bassist Paul Collins, and keyboardist/accordionist Aaron Arntz.
If you've never heard of Beirut, their music is inspired by traditional sounds of Spain, Italy, France, and, of course, Lebanon (being named Beirut and all)... but as if it's written for pop radio.
Condon rarely said a word through their 100-min set, instead letting his music speak for him. For example, the new single "Gallipoli" (the title track from their fifth studio album) played mid-set, was the name of the Italian town where the song was written.
Gallipoli is out now on 4AD.
Remaining tour dates:
02/26/2019 - Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theatre
02/27/2019 - Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
02/28/2019 - Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
03/02/2019 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
03/30/2019 - Berlin, DE @ Funkhaus
04/02/2019 - Brussels, Belgium @ Forest National
04/04/2019 - Groningen, Netherlands @ De Oosterpoort
04/05/2019 - Paris, France @ Le Grand Rex
04/06/2019 - Cologne, Germany @ Palladium
04/08/2019 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenburg
04/10/2019 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
04/11/2019 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Town Hall
04/12/2019 - London, England @ Eventim Apollo
04/14/2019 - Vienna, Austria @ Gasometer
04/15/2019 - Munich, DE @ Zenith
04/18/2019 - Milan, France @ Alcatraz
04/19/2019 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Volkshaus
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Minneapolis: February 23 to February 28, 2019
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from February 23 to February 28, 2019.
Read more: Minneapolis Music Guide.
Helado Negro ("black ice cream" in English) is the musical alias of South Florida native Roberto Carlos Lange and who has made several trips locally, enough that he should consider getting a second...
+ Helado Negro
Sat 02/23/2019 (6:30pm/$41)
palacestpaul.com
We haven't seen Beirut since their July 2012, so it's been a long time. We wrote, "Brooklyn-based band Beirut will be gracing listeners' ears with the incredible blend of horns, strings, percussion, and electronic sounds to create their wide range of music, from Balkan folk to electronic. Since their debut album Gulag Orkestar in 2006, Beirut has grown on to international fame, garnering over 736,000 fans on Facebook, though I imagine their fan base is much larger."
Show up early to see Helado Negro, who we saw in June 2016, writing, "Helado Negro ("black ice cream" in English) is the musical alias of South Florida native Roberto Carlos Lange and who has made several trips locally, enough that he should consider getting a second home here. In addition to world-premiering his Island Universe Story here last March, Lange was back in town less than a month ago, to help Devandra Barnhart with his Wind Grove Mind Alone performance at the Walker Art Center last month."
Helado Negro's latest album This Is How You Smile, is out now.
02/19/2019 - Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
02/20/2019 - Toronto, ON @ Sony Centre
02/21/2019 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre
02/22/2019 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
02/23/2019 - St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
Other shows in the area:
Welles at 7th Street
Young the Giant at Palace
Dean Lewis at Fine Line
Mike Krol at 7th Street
Cherry Glazerr at Fine Line
Cold Cave at Turf Club
Aurora at First Avenue
John Maus at First Ave
California's Young the Giant (not to be confused with Australia's Jungle Giants), is currently on tour in support of Mind over Matter, which came out January 2014. …
Palehound
Opener, Palehound, a project by singer, guitarist and songwriter Ellen Kempner from Boston, MA, compliments Mitski's raw and evocative style with her own, haunting confessionals. ...
Detroit's Adult. has been pretty inactive since we last wrote about them in February 2007. Since Why Bother? in 2007, the band came back in 2013 with The Way Things Fall, and most recently, Detroit House Guests, released last year. ....
Norway's Aurora (aka Aurora Aksnes) is back in Minneapolis, headlining the Cedar Cultural Center this Saturday, November 12th. She previously sold out the 7th Street Entry in April 2016. …
In his first show in seven years, John Maus will be headlining the Cedar Cultural Center on Thursday, April 5th. Maus is known for his emotional, passionate live ..…
+ Late Night Fights
7th Street Entry
Sat 02/23/2019 (8pm/$10)
first-avenue.com
Grunge rocker Welles (aka Jesse Wells) will be playing the 7th Street Entry this February 23rd.
Minneapolis rockers Late Night Fights to open.
17/02/2019 Pike Room , Pontiac, MI
19/02/2019 High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
20/02/2019 Schubas Tavern, Chicago, IL
22/02/2019 Triple Crown Whiskey Bar, Davenport, IA
23/02/2019 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
26/02/2019 Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
28/02/2019 Neurolux, Boise, ID
01/03/2019 Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
02/03/2019 Shakedown, Bellingham, WA
03/03/2019 Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA
06/03/2019 Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
+ Sure Sure
Sun 02/24/2019 (6:30pm/$29.50)
Young the Giant is touring in support of their latest album Mirror Master (Elektra Records).
Los Angeles indie pop band Sure Sure will be opening for Young the Giant.
2/17: Columbia, MO @ Blue Note
2/19: Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club
2/21: West Lafayette, IN @ Purdue University
2/22: Notre Dame, IN @ University of Notre Dame
2/23: Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
2/24: St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
2/26: Winnipeg @ Burton Cummings Theatre
2/27: Sakatoon, SK @ Coors Events Centre
3/1: Edmonton, AB @ Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
3/2: Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall
3/4: Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum
3/6: Missoula, MT @ The Wilma
3/7: Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
3/8: Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
3/9: Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
DEAN LEWIS
+ Syml
Fine Line Music Café
Mon 02/25/2019 (7pm/$20/Sold Out)
With over a billion streams, Billboard's "Chart-Breaker" Dean Lewis sold out the Fine Line Music Café this Monday, February 25th.
Syml to open.
02/18/2019 The Crocodile Seattle, WA
02/20/2019 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR
02/22/2019 Metro Music Hall Salt Lake City, UT
02/23/2019 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO
02/25/2019 Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
02/26/2019 Park West Chicago, IL
02/27/2019 The Loving Touch Ferndale, MI
03/03/2019 The Sinclair Cambridge, MA
03/03/2019 Royale Nightclub Boston Boston, MA
03/05/2019 The Foundry Philadelphia, PA
03/10/2019 Terminal West Atlanta, GA
03/11/2019 Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN
03/13/2019 Trees Dallas, TX
06/29/2019 "Lollapalooza Stockholm"
MIKE KROL
+ Steve Adamyk, Subtle Beast
7th St Entry
Tue 02/26/2019 (7pm/$12)
Mike Krol just released Power Chords on Merge Record... and he'll be stopping by the 7th Street Entry on Tuesday.
2/20: San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
2/22: Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
2/23: Seattle, WA - Crocodile Back Bar
2/26: Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
2/27: Milwaukee, WI - The Back Room
2/28: Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
3/01: Detroit, MI - Deluxx Fluxx
3/02: Toronto, ON - The Garrison
3/04: Allston, MA - Great Scott
3/05: Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade
3/06: Philadelphia, PA - The Boot & Saddle
3/07: Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
3/08: Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
3/09: Savannah, GA - Savannah Stopover
3/10: Atlanta, GA - The Earl
3/11: New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
3/13 - 3/16: Austin, TX - SXSW
3/17: Dallas, TX - Not So Fun Wknd
3/19: Denver, CO - Globe Hall
3/20: Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
+ Palehound, Strange Relations
Tue 02/26/2019 (7:30pm/$15)
Los Angeles' Cherry Glazerr (led by 22 year old Clementine Creevy with drummer Tabor Allen and bassist Devin O'Brien) will be playing the Fine Line Music Café on Tuesday, February 26th. They recently released Stuffed and Ready on Secretly Canadian
Palehound and Strange Relations to open.
02/22/2019 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
02/23/2019 Bottom Lounge Chicago, IL
02/24/2019 Melted Music Festival
03/01/2019 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
03/02/2019 Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT
03/07/2019 Neumos Seattle, WA
03/10/2019 The Independent San Francisco, CA
03/11/2019 Troubadour West Hollywood, CA
COLD CAVE
+ Adult., Vowws
Dakwave Cold Cave (aka Wesley Eisold) will be headlining the Turf Club on Tuesday, February 26th. He was previously in town last year June 2018.
Joining Cold Cave will be Adult. and Vowws. We like the former a lot, so be sure to pick up their tour exclusive 7" Subsurface/Coming Apart (DAIS Records). The 500 limited 7" will come with a folded 14" x 14" poster created by ADULT.'s Nicola Kuperus, as well as being hand numbered and hand stamped with ADULT.'s logo across the B side label and jacket. 200 of the 7" will feature Pepto-Bismol accident colored vinyl.
02/19 - Olympia, WA - Capitol Theater
02/20 - Vancouver, BC - Imperial Theater
02/22 - Calgary, AB - Marquee
02/23 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
02/26 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club
02/27 - Chicago, IL - Metro
02/28 - Detroit, MI - Majestic
03/01 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
03/02 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
03/04 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
03/05 - Washington, DC - Union Stage
03/06 - Carrboro, NC - The Cat's Cradle
03/07 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
03/08 - Tampa, FL - The Crowbar
03/09 - West Palm Beach, FL - Respectables
03/10 - Orlando, FL - The Abbey
+ Talos
Wed 02/27/2019(7pm/$20)
Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora ( Aurora Aksnes) is back in Minneapolis, playing her biggest venue yet, at First Avenue on Wednesday, February 27th.
She's bringing with her, Ireland's Talos (aka Eoin French), and they are touring for their sophomore album Far Out Dust.
02/17/2019 The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA
02/20/2019 Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA
02/22/2019 Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
02/23/2019 The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
02/25/2019 Bluebird Theater Denver, CO
02/27/2019 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
03/01/2019 Metro / Smart Bar Chicago, IL
03/07/2019 Brooklyn Steel Brooklyn, NY
03/09/2019 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA
03/10/2019 Lincoln Theatre Washington, DC
+ Lukdlx
Thu 02/28/2019 (7pm/$20)
After a seven-year absent from the music scene, suddenly local favorite John Maus booked a show at the Cedar in April 2018.
Equally sudden, we got word that Joe Maus (John's brother and bassist in the band) died on August 2018.
He took a hiatus to grieve, but it appears that Maus will be back touring this year, playing First Avenue at the end of February.
02/18/2019 Saturn Birmingham, AL
02/19/2019 One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, LA
02/21/2019 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
02/27/2019 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
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Northside Festival 2014
The Northside Festival is New York City's largest and most accessible discovery festival, taking place June 12-19, 2014. Hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over 80,000 fans will converge on Brooklyn over eight days to witness an incredible showcase of what's next in music, film, entrepreneurship and art.
Albert Hammond Jr., Beirut, Chvrches, The War on Drugs, Eleanor Friedberger, Thee Oh Sees, Drowners, Sharon Van Etten, Talib Kweli, Fuck Buttons, Titus Andronicus, Courtney Barnett, Dan Croll, Gringo Star, Eagulls, Mas Ysa, and more...
The outdoor event featuring Beirut at the Cabooze and opener Little Scream turned out to be as musically satisfying as deathly humid, playing a smattering of songs from the New Mexico bred band's plethora…
This year's Northside Festival holds some seriously impressive acts and showcases. Hosted by Northside Media Group, the Brooklyn "discovery festival" (as the group calls it) will give attendees plenty of opportunities to not only see their favorite bands play or innovators speak, but with over a hundred-fifty musicians, filmmakers, and speakers just announced last week, festival goers are bound to get into something new. And this is just what Northside Media Group intends, with its mission of bringing on what they describe is "what's next."
Released as one of the first bands to be performing at Northside, Brooklyn-based band Beirut will be gracing listeners' ears with the incredible blend of horns, strings, percussion, and electronic sounds to create their wide range of music, from Balkan folk to electronic. Since their debut album Gulag Orkestar in 2006, Beirut has grown on to international fame, garnering over 736,000 fans on Facebook, though I imagine their fan base is much larger. Lead by the amazingly delicate and soulful vocals of Zach Condon, Beirut can create an orchestrated, filling sound like in "Elephant Gun," or a quieter, but just as powerful song like "Goshen."
If you don't make it to see Beirut in Brooklyn next month, hopefully you either live or will be vacationing at one of these places.
If you happen to be vacationing at one of these international towns, be sure to catch them at these upcoming summer festivals.
06/14 Northside Festival Brooklyn, NY
07/04 Toronto Urban Roots Festival Toronto, CAN
08/15 Green Man Festival Crickhowell, UK
08/17 Kucukciflik Park Istanbul, Turkey
08/21 For Noise Festival Pully, Switzerland
08/23 Parades De Coura Porto, Portugal
Northside Festival will be held June 12-19 at several venue spaces on the northside of Brooklyn (get it?). Take a look at the line-up and suggest a band to cover!
More details on northsidefestival.com
justina ♥ weheartmusic.com
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Beirut - young folk
Beirut - Elephant Gun (Live)
Cover photograph from stinker
The opening track gives me chills, I don't mean the first song either, I mean the first track. If I wasn't afraid of offending religious persons, I would say it was a call to worship. Its whispering shhh ... we are going to listen to music now. This album is my first exposure to Zach Condon. Condon starting making music at 15. He is now 20 and has a number of albums. I've started to go through his back catalog, but for now I am listening to his current album "The Flying Club Cup". This album has a great old timey feel. Condon's voice gives this album a unique stamp. For a better idea listen to his music. The slow and subtle motifs , remind me of Sufjan Stevens, it might also be the use of horns. Is it just me or horns becoming a thing, I am going to investigate that more in another post. For now just listen to horns I think they make this album stand out. The music feels like its from another time. He uses many instruments I don't hear on a regular basis. Like I here a loot , maybe what does a loot sound like. Horns definitely, I hear an accordion, I'll bet their is a harmonica somewhere too. Anyway the eclecticness of the instrumentation , opens the range of the music so as to not bore, but stay within a predetermined theme. I wouldn't even know what that theme is olden times I don't know. Check this album out though, to me its unique and will stay on my pallet for a long time.
Beirut - "Postcards from Italy"
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Artist: BeirutTitle: "Postcards From Italy"Album: Gulag OrkestarThere's something almost charming...
Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!...
vu wrote:
I just wanted to add these two links: Beirut - "Postcards from Italy" (by Gus) and Sufjan Stevens - Come on feel the Illinois (by Emelia)
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Artist: Beirut
Title: "Postcards From Italy"
Album: Gulag Orkestar
There's something almost charming about Eastern Europe folk music. I'm not quite sure what it is -- I can't think of anything dorkier than a bunch of mustachioed ex-Soviets pounding away on big kettle drums and blaring loud, brassy little ditties on trumpets, trombones, or, for that matter, the good ol' Tuba. But when you really listen to it, there's something downright irresistible about the whole shebang.
Then again, I might just be crazy.
Whatever the case may be, Beirut is one of those bands that sort of came out of left field a while ago and took the whole indie music world by storm. I was introduced to them by a friend of mine while I was in school in Monterey. I was riding shotgun to go see some movie or another, and this song came on his iPod. By the divine magic of shuffle, "Postcards from Italy" immediately began to fill the inside of his Jetta. I can't think of a single more fitting manner or place to be introduced to such a song. Everything about this song screams summer time music -- it has that golden, lilty sort of atmosphere to it that you get when thinking about merry-go-rounds, or that one time at the beach when you were fourteen, and you tried to seduce every girl that walked your way with funnel cake and a big, powdery smile.
And I'm sure everyone out there has heard this particular track. But, well, darn-it, today was just sunny and warm enough to give me a taste for summer, and this song came on...
--Gus
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