Beirut-based Band Mashrou' Leila Courts Controversy

Soundcheck | Nov 20, 2017

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Beirut-based indie-rock band Mashrou’ Leila tackles taboo topics - political corruption, LGBT rights, religion, and Middle Eastern feminism. Their catchy and danceable Arabic pop songs are full of guitars, drum machines, samples, violin and frontman Hamed Sinno’s sensual voice. In the years since they first formed in 2008, they’ve become both enormously popular and enormously controversial, even banned in some countries. Mashrou’ Leila’s latest record, Ibn el Leil - means ‘son of the night.’ And they’re here to play some of it live in the studio. 

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