Nearby is Chico Records, a historic store founded in the ’60s by the record producer Khatchik Mardirian, who worked with Ziad Rahbani, the artist son of Lebanese diva Fairuz. Khatchik’s son Diran now ...

While named after Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut came to be in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the mastermind behind the indie-folk project Zach Condon lived. “One of the reasons I named the band after ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sirens, a rock doc about Beirut all-female thrash metal band Slave to Sirens, will get a theatrical run after Oscilloscope Laboratories bought the North American rights. The company, which ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and "American Idol," which ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - To support his folk-tinged rock band's 2007 sophomore album, "The Flying Club Cup," Beirut frontman Zach Condon headed out on a world tour. It didn't go exactly as planned. "It ...

On Jan. 29, LNZNDRF will drop their second album, continuing an all-star project featuring Bryan and Scott Devendorf of The National as well as Benjamin Lanz (The National, Beirut) and Aaron Arntz ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and “American Idol,” which ...

DUBAI – A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and “American Idol,” which aims to transform young ...