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Raise your glasses and down a few in honor of Beirut's Zach Condon. The guy's barely old enough to drink himself, and yet he and his roving entourage of spirited horn-blowers and string-pullers have a second album, The Flying Club Cup, on the way and a continent-spanning tour kicking off tonight (September 20) in Brooklyn.

Kicking off publicly, that is. Beirut and band actually dusted off their gear last night for a secret warm-up gig in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood. Blog Thepunkguy has photos from this intimate-looking gathering.

The Flying Club Cup, as you know, lands October 9 Stateside via Ba Da Bing! and the day before UK-ways via 4AD. Digital retailers, however, not bound by geography, have the album available for download sale right now.

And if you thought La Blogothèque and Beirut couldn't get any friendlier, think again. As you may have read in Forkcast, the website-- fond of filming your favorite performers working their magic in unconventional spaces-- has revealed plans to post live "Take Away Show" videos for every single song on The Flying Club Cup. We may never leave our spinny chairs again.

Beirut:

09-20 Brooklyn, NY - Masonic Temple
09-23 Princeton, NJ - Terrace Club #
09-24 New York, NY - Society for Ethical Culture (Wordless Music Series) #
09-26 New York, NY - Delacorte Theater *
09-28 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa #
09-29 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa #
09-30 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa #
10-02 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall #
10-04 Chicago, IL - Portage Theater #
10-08 San Francisco, CA - Herbst Theater #
10-09 San Francisco, CA - Herbst Theater #
10-10 Los Angeles, CA - Avalon #
11-06 Manchester, England - Club Academy
11-07 Glasgow, Scotland - The Arches
11-08 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
11-09 Cardiff, Wales - The Point (Sŵn Festival)
11-10 London, England - The Roundhouse
11-12 Paris, France - Olympia (Inrocks Festival)
11-13 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie (Inrocks Festiival)
11-14 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
11-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11-16 Lille, France - Grand Mix
11-18 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
11-19 Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
11-20 Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche
11-21 Munich, Germany - Elserhalle
11-22 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur
11-24 Lyon, France - Ninkashi
11-25 Zurich, Switzerland - Mascotte

# with Colleen
* with Balkan Beat Box