El Hipnotizador Romantico are a five-pieve group from the Mataderos neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. On their self-titled debut album they pitch themselves somewhere between the romantic pop of Rufus Wainwright and the restless musicality of Beirut. The album... Read Article
It’s fair to say that Beirut have become one of the biggest indie-rock bands in the world. What might be quite surprising, considering their music’s French and Eastern European influences, is the fact that some of their group’s... Read Article
Red Hot + Rio 2 is a compilation honouring tropicália produced by the people who brought us the bossa nova-inspired Red Hot + Rio and indie/folk of 2009’s Dark Was The Night compilation. Over 33 tracks the 2CD... Read Article
A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade are a band from Curitiba in the South of Brazil. Until last week they were relatively unknown outside of their home city. Now, they are officially an internet phenomenom, all thanks to... Read Article
A couple of weeks ago we announced that Red Hot + Rio 2, the new compilation from the Red Hot Organization featuring a variety of today’s artists covering tropicália classics, will feature the likes of Beck, Caetano Veloso,... Read Article
The love affair between Brazil and Beirut appears to be continuing now that Zach Condon’s outfit have covered Caetano Veloso’s “O Leaozinho.” The cover will appear on the highly-anticipated Red Hot + Rio 2, a Tropicalía love fest... Read Article
Last week Pitchfork announced that the Red Hot Organization will release Red Hot + Rio 2 on June 28th this year. This new compilation will focus on Tropicália and the great music coming out of Brazil in the... Read Article
I had to put this video online for my favourite piece of Beirutando. You can read all about the world of Beirutando in our article here.
After appearing in Capitu, a television mini-series that aired in Brazil in December 2008, the New York-based indie/folk band Beirut became hugely popular in the country. Their song “Elephant Gun” (from the Lon Gisland EP) was used as... Read Article
