au fait, si vous avez manqué le début, la nouvelle sensation indie, c’est Beirut. Quelques pointeurs, de Said the Gramophone à ce côté-ci de l’atlantique, d’un live à Brooklyn à un orchestre macédonien.

beirut: brandenburg (live)

• Said the Gramophone: Beirut
  That is so much fun without being about dancing. That just raises cup after cup of wine, pulls wind after wind out of its pockets (north! south! east! west!), gives you breadcrumbs and also the opportunity to get lost. It’s an outstanding, endearing debut
• La Blogothèque mp3blog audioblog –
  Postards from Italy, le premier morceau à m’avoir accroché, c’est tout ça. C’est un garçon américain en vacances dans une vieille Europe chaude et sèche.
• Beirut at Joe’s Pub – a photoset on Flickr
  Beirut at Joe’s Pub
• Libération : Beirut, follement déroutant
  Beirut suggère une odyssée en bus diesel sur les routes de l’ancienne Yougoslavie, à la croisée des films de Kusturica, du klezmer, des montagnes des Balkans et du raki, cette eau-de-vie que les paysans d’Europe centrale descendent comme du petit lait
• Beirut: Gulag Orkestar: Pitchfork Review
  Beirut’s brassy In the Aeroplane Over the Sea-like instrumental accents have garnered Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons.
• BEIRUT – Gulag Orkestar -album- POPNEWS Juin 2006
  […]jouent sur une palette de sonorités assez large pour faire oublier le total-look fanfare, de l’accordéon à la Tiersen (“Mount Wroclai”) en passant par les cuivres mariachis et les incursions électroniques décalées
• Tuning Fork: Beirut/Gulag Orkestar/7.7
  Are the songs really so incredible or do they simply mimic and mine musical traditions unfamiliar to the average indie rock fan?
• Beirut – SoundFix, June 17 at ryspace.com
  Beirut played to a packed, sweltering house at SoundFix this past Saturday. It was so hot… (how hot was it?); it was so hot that after the first song, band leader Zach Condon proceeded to pour an entire glass of water over his head, dousing his ukulele
• Said the Gramophone: Said the Guests: Beirut
  Today, Beirut is going to tell us about four great loves: Balkan brass, eurohouse, dub, and tropicalia. Please make Zach welcome.
• CramWorld / Kocani Orkestar “Alone At My Wedding”
  Their music is based on Gypsy tunes from various parts of the Balkans and on Turkish/Bulgarian rhythms, with a sprinkle of Latin flavour… but this album is particularly devoted to the repertoire played by Gypsy bands during wedding celebrations in Macedonia.
• beirut – live in cambridge – bradley’s almanac
  I’d never seen such a line anywhere in Inman Square, down the block and around the corner into the residential neighborhood behind the main drag (bonus: le concert à boston que j’ai raté)

globalement déçu, et assez d’accord avec cet article du boston globe:

My Morning Jacket’s set began auspiciously enough, with the room pitch-black and percussionists in the aisles. And then the interesting part ended. What followed was an hour of muted rock tunes, sweetened with polite orchestral flourishes but only rarely elevated by the sort of dramatic interplay and cinematic scope one imagines a world-class orchestra and an imaginative rock band are capable of creating.

des bonus points pour la flying v dans un opéra, quand même.

• Mars Hotel et autres histoires – weezer – songs from the black hole
  Weezer aussi a son disque perdu, mythique, son concept-album de science-fiction passé à la trappe qui suscite fantasmes et pétitions des fans. Le Smile de Weezer s’appelle Songs from the Black Hole et il aurait dû sortir en 1995
  (tags: weezer lostalbum smile songsfromtheblackhole)
• Space Invader – a photoset on Flickr
  “These pictures were taken in the streets of Vienna or in the studio of French street artist Space Invader, during his “invasion” of June 2006.” via kathrynyu
  (tags: art streetart spaceinvader vienna)
• Contrechamp – La mélancolie, le silence et la joie
  Barbara Carlotti, la dandy, réinvente le spleen dans la continuité d’un Léo Ferré pour qui la mélancolie “est un chat perdu qu’on croit retrouvé”.
  (tags: barbaracarlotti chanteuse contrechamp concert)
• Armadillo Run
  “Armadillo Run is a physics-based puzzle game. You have to build structures with the purpose of getting an armadillo to a certain point in space.” – via nasm
  (tags: physics game puzzle)
• Weird Science
  profil d’homaro cantu, chef du moto, adepte de la cuisine à l’azote liquide, dans fast company
  (tags: moto cantu restaurant chicago molecular gastronomy cuisine fastcompany food technology)
• The Walrus Magazine – Game Theories
  By World Bank rankings, that made EverQuest richer than India, Bulgaria, or China, and nearly as wealthy as Russia.
  (tags: economics gaming article)