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This session was recorded around November of 2007. It was broadcast by radio station Frnace Inter. The session features covers of Jacques Brel's 'Le Moribond', Kocani Orkestar's 'Siki Siki Baba' and Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', which I have only found before in a really bad quality recording. If you haven't listened to Zach Condon's albums you should. You can download the whole session at the bottom and preview a few of the tracks.

6PM, Alexander Tucker, Anticonceptivas, Apostle Of Hustle, Apse, Architecture In Helsinki, At Swim Two Birds, Band Of Horses, Barry Adamson, Battles, Beirut, Billy Bragg, Black Lips, Black Mountain, Blonde Redhead, Bola, Bonde Do Role, Brightblack Morning Light, Built To Spill, Buzzcocks, Centro-Matic, Chromeo, Comets On Fire, David Carretta, David Thomas Broughton, Death Vessel, Diplo, Dirty Three, DJ Yoda, Dominik Eulberg, Elvis Perkins, Erol Alkan, Estrategia Lo Capto!, Evripidis And His Tragedies, Fennesz & Mike Patton, Fujiya & Miyagi, Ghouls'n'Ghosts, Ginferno, Girl Talk, Girls Against Boys, Gnac, Grizzly Bear, Grupo De Expertos Solynieve, Half Foot Outside, Hell, Herman Düne, Hot Chip, How Dare You!, Isis, Ivan Smagghe, Jay Reatard, Jonathan Richman, Justice, Kid Koala, Kiev Cuando Nieva, Kimya Dawson, Klaxons, Koacha, Lavodrama, Le Pianc, Lisabö, Los Planetas, Low, Luke Slater, Luomo, Malajube, Man Like Me, Matt Elliott, Maxïmo Park, Melvins, Mijk Van Dijk, Modest Mouse, Múm, Mus, Nathan Fake, Nueva Vulcano, Oakley Hall, Of Montreal, Oliver Huntemann, One-Two, Oslø Telescopic, Ovni, Parenthetical Girls, Patti Smith, Pelican, Peluze, People Are Germs, Plastic D'Amour, Play Paul, Portastatic, Raülmoya Y El Trío Miniña, Reinhard Voigt, Robyn Hitchcock And The Venus 3, Shannon Wright, Shitdisco, Slint, Sonic Youth, Southern Arts Society, Spank Rock, Spiritualized - Acoustic Mainlines, Sr. Chinarro, Standstill, Technasia, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Apples In Stereo, The Durutti Column, The Fall, The Good The Bad & The Queen, The Light Brigade, The Long Blondes, The Orchids, The Rakes, The Sadies, The Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, Toktok, Umek, Veracruz, Wilco, X-Wife, Za,

Le sorprese son belle proprio perchè arrivano sempre quando meno te le aspetti. Questo fine settimana due delizie musicali: una scoperta e una riscoperta. Zach Condon viene da Santa Fe, New Mexico; ha vent’anni ed è il one-man band di Beirut. La band, appunto.

We do not remember exactly when and how we came to be in possession of the book «BRUCE LEE – The King of Kung Fu». Presumably, we bought it in Beirut (where the book was published) or in Tehran (although it is written in Arabic). Possibly it was a present given to us by someone some time in the past. It must have been in our office for quite a while when, suddenly, we re-discovered it one day.

One of the things the President and his evacuation team must do is follow the law -- or at least people say the President is not above the law, so it’s better that he obeys it. A law especially pertinent to this situation is the 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which -- in part -- requires the government to charge evacuees commercial fare plus a dollar for government evacuation. Obeying the law, the State Department had planned to make the evacuating Americans sign a note pledging to reimburse the U.S. government before they got on board. They were charging the price of a single commercial flight from Beirut to Cyprus -- usually $150-$200. When House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi heard about this, she quickly asked her staff to find the nearest microphone. They found CNN, to which Pelosi declared, “A nation that can provide more than $300 billion for a war in Iraq can provide the money to get its people out of Lebanon.” ()() Incidentally, Nancy voted for the law which requires the state department to charge evacuees. Didn't she read the bill before voting for it?

Tuesday, half a million people demonstrating in the streets of Beirut, chanting and waving flags. You probably assumed that they were protesting against the Syrian presence in Lebanon. In fact it was a rally organised by Hezbollah in support of Syria