Daily Jam - No Dice

For the last three weeks, i have had to coach my son's flag football team of 5th, 6th, and 7th graders.  It's...difficult.  Here's Beirut with "No Dice," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - The Gulag Orkestar

During the indie boom of the '00s, one of my favorite was the worldly sound of Zach Condon's project Beirut.  And that first album still hits hard.  Listen to "The Gulag Orkestar" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Elephant Gun

It's cold and rainy here today, and i'm about to start prepping some chili for dinner tonight, slow-cooking it for the next 7 or 8 hours.  Anyway, here's Beirut with "Elephant Gun," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - A Sunday Smile

Someone brought up Beirut the other day and mentioned that despite the band's early hype in the mid '00s on indie music blogs and the great albums that followed, no one really mentions them anymore.  And that's a damn shame, because they're great.  Here's "A Sunday Smile," our Daily Jam.

Beirut

Way back in the mid-aughts, a goddamn lifetime ago, i was really taken with the horn-infused indie folk rock of New Mexico artist Zach Condon and his project Beirut.  Those early records had an Eastern European beer hall vibe that just worked for me, a sound both melancholy and celebrative, and wholly endearing.  A decade plus and a few releases later, i kind of moved on to different sounds and niches, but the band's latest, "Gallipoli," brings back those horns, and i am here for it all day long.  Listen below, and get the album of the same name here from 4AD.