Hamed Sinno, the lead vocalist for Lebanese band Mashrou Leila, checked Google Weather and packed accordingly before he left for New York, where the band would kick off its first-ever North American tour. “Them fuckers lied,” he said, as he shivered slightly, on the morning of their show at Columbia University on Oct. 17, the first of the band’s New York concerts that bookend the two-week tour. He was also nervous. Despite the band’s massive, youthful fanbase in Beirut and Cairo, and suc...
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The Huffington Post - 29 Oct 2015 21:18
Hamed Sinno, the lead vocalist for Lebanese band Mashrou Leila, checked Google Weather and packed accordingly before he left for New York, where the band would kick off its first-ever North American tour. “Them fuckers lied,” he said, as he shivered slightly, on the morning of their show at Columbia University on Oct. 17, the first of the band’s New York concerts that bookend the two-week tour. He was also nervous. Despite the band’s massive, youthful fanbase in Beirut and Cairo, and suc...
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