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"There's a running joke in my family that I was in Rolling Stone before I was in any local paper," [Zach Condon] says modestly, chatting on the phone from a truck stop in upstate New York. He and his band-a shifting lineup currently comprised of fellow New Mexicans Nick Petree, Paul Collins, Perrin Cloutier and Jason Poranski (plus non-natives Jon Natchez, Kristin Ferebee and Kelly Pratt)-are midway through a tour that's taken them from the Pacific Northwest to Europe to his current home (New York) and, finally, to his former home of Santa Fe. This week's shows at the College of Santa Fe and Albuquerque's Launchpad are a homecoming of sorts for Condon.
"It's hard to wrap my head around it," Condon says. "I did everything in my power to get out [of Santa Fe]...it's a small town and it has its inherent problems. I feel like I'm knocking it, but that's not the point.""Obviously we don't wanna be homecoming kings," Condon says, a little hesitantly. "It's more like, we're playing for our friends in New Mexico. The excitement is building up...I have no idea if it'll be madness or just 20 of our friends."See the full content of this document
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Surfing the Indie Seas
SURFING THE INDIE SEAS
Beirut comes back to Santa Fe a little older and a lot wiser.Beirut, a bedroom music project-cumfull-fledged band led by 20-year-old Santa Fean Zach Condon, has recently earned praise from Rolling Stone, NPR, the Village Voice, the Washin...See the full content of this document
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