This video was shot by Beirut.com during Slutterhouse’s album launch concert for ANOTHER LIE. The event was organized by The Basement and was part of the C U NXT SAT parties.

When I’m not busy with music, I direct fashion photo shoots! Here’s the last one I directed with FashionBeirut.com for the Animals Lebanon NGO in order to create awareness against animal abuse.

Click on the photo to check out the full campaign and do not forget to sign the petition!

We are so happy to finally make this new single public. The song is called “Stop Me” and is the first single off our new album Another Lie, scheduled to be released by the end of December 2011.

To celebrate this release and because we love nostalgia, you may also click HERE for a free download of our first album Made In Dance that was released exactly two years ago.

Dig it, and share it.

Love to all x

Whatup whatup!

Tune in to LBC (local and satellite) this Friday, October 28, at around 5pm, Beirut time (GMT+2). I’ve been invited to a show called Helwi Beirut and am going to be interviewed by one of these lovely five ladies below. Which one is your guess?

People outside Lebanon can tune in to http://www.lbcgroup.tv/, register for free, and watch the interview live.

Coincidence? Not so sure. Especially if we take in consideration the huge international noise that the No Rights No Women campaign made last March 2011. In any case, I think it is safe to say that my beautiful team ate Olivier Zahm’s alive on this one.

FashionBeirut.com / March 2011



Art Director: Rabih Salloum – Photographer: George Zouein – Stylist: Ghina Maalouf – Model: Nayla Ghazzaoui


Purple / October 2011



Art Director: Olivier Zahm – Photographer: Terry Richardson – Stylist: Caroline Gaimari – Model: Lindsey Wixson

Hey everyone,

I will be the official speaker covering the music theme during the Social Media Week this year. I will be doing a presentation entitled: How did Social Networks change the relationship between Artists and Fans during which I will be speaking about our personal experience as Slutterhouse and how we manage our career through the social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook. After the presentation, I will take time to answer all the questions you may have about the topic.

The presentation will take place on Friday the 23rd of September 2011 at Altcity in Hamra, Beirut.

Global registrations start this afternoon, there are limited seats, so go to the Social Media Week website (by clicking on the image below) and register now.

See you there!

Photographer Ben Dauchez‘s appartment, Paris 2008.

My love for dark pop is no secret to anyone. In fact, we have been having diverging opinions during our last few studio sessions about whether or not to include one of the new songs on the album, and the song happens to be very reminiscent of Depeche Mode’s dark pop. My band mate believes – and he is right about that – that it will be the least original track on the album, that it’s not fresh nor adventurous enough, at least nothing compared to the rest of the very exciting new material.

I can’t argue with that, but I simply cannot help it but love the song. It’s one of the tracks that are the closest to my heart and it really means a lot for me to have it on there. It’s personal, we can’t argue with emotions.

I have stumbled upon a new band today: Strangers. I love Twitter for this kind of discoveries. These boys make no compromise: it’s dark pop in its purest form, and I love it. Check out the video of my favorite song In Chaos below.

I am very honored to have been asked to be the master of ceremonies at this year’s CHANCE (Children Against Cancer) fundraising event at Skybar – Beirut. I will be hosting the event along with TV presenter Bruna Tohme.

The date is Monday the 22nd of August. Check the details on the poster below, get your tickets, and be there for a fun night supporting a great cause.

One of our favorite tweeps Shannon sent us a link to Emeli Sande’s new single “Heaven” last week, and I have been in love since. I remember listening to it for the first time: the epic synthesizer intro was enough to get me curious. Then the drum beat kicked in and I felt disoriented for a few seconds – the 90s beat was far from what I was expecting. But then Emeli started singing, and it all made sense again. Beautiful voice, beautiful words, beautiful melodies, beautiful everything.

Listen and enjoy the video below.

“Morrissey has courted controversy yet again after the vegetarian said the devastating Norway attacks were ‘nothing compared to what happens in McDonald’s and KFC every day’.”

This post is destined to try to explain Morrissey’s point of view and hopefully make his message clearer, thus not as offensive as you may think it is.

First thing you need to do when you hear Morrissey say something like that is remember to not take it personally. It is not personal. I am sure the man is very saddened and troubled by the horrible Norway massacre. His initiative only serves to create enough scandal and provocation in order for him to be able to convey another message.

In Morrissey’s mind – and in most animal rights activists – a human life does not have more value than an animal life. Very simply, if we consider both animals and human beings as earthlings (inhabitants of planet earth) without discrimination, the Norway massacre would indeed be nothing compared to daily animal slaughter and torture. It’s a simple matter of numbers: around 90 humans were killed in Norway, but hundreds of millions of animals are killed everyday.

What Morrissey and animal rights activists in general denounce is what we call speciecism: it’s a form of discrimination that believes that the lives of the different species on earth do not have the same value. Just as a racist believes that a white man’s life is worth more than a black man’s; Western media believes that Israeli blood is more valuable than Palestinian blood; or just as sexists believe that a man’s life is worth more than a woman’s; a speciecist believes that human life has more value than any other specie’s.

In terms of ethical evolutions, we have reasons to believe that after having fought – and still are fighting – against racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, the current most important and only logical fight is the one against speciecism.

Because we believe that morality starts with the way we as human beings treat other animals. Because if we believe that we are intelligent and free, we are also responsible. The good old lion that kills the gazelle is not a criminal because he does not chose to kill, his action is not premeditated: it is only dictated by his natural instincts.

But the animal slaughtering factories are not instinctive, nor is the massive overproduction that causes the cruel torture and killing of hundreds of millions of animals everyday, only to end up throwing more than 70% of the production, gone to waste. We are not denouncing the shepherd who has to kill one of his sheep to survive. It is a different story, we know it, you all know it, no matter how hypocritical you try to be.

It is only natural to feel more affected by the death of someone who we feel is “closer” to us. Which is why it is natural for most human beings to feel more affected by the death of another human being than by the death of a cow. It is the same logic that makes it that one feels more affected by the death of a relative than by the death of the poor African children. This is the reign of the heart, and one does not have any control over it.

But the heart should not be an excuse for us to not take a step back and think about who we are and how we behave. It is unacceptable to still see ourselves as superior, because no matter how we turn it, the criteria of superiority will always be determined by ourselves. They are not natural, nor are they objective. If our superiority is a “fact” – meaning that, we do what we do because we can do it – then this same logic should be applied when it comes to human beings amongst themselves as well. The strong guy should be then allowed to enslave the weak handicapped guy. Because he can do it: it’s a fact. No excuse.

Humanism is pure hypocrisy when it doesn’t take a step further and fight against speciecism.

I strongly recommend that you take 95 useful minutes of your precious time and watch the amazing documentary Earthlings below. It is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, the music is by Moby, and the footage is as real as it comes.

It’s like “Inside the Station” has become a classic already. Almost two years after its release, this track just made it on the very cool and super sexy compilation of the This Is Paris magazine. Click on the image below to dowbload the whole compilation for free.

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Somewhere in the mid 2000s I fell in love with Jamelia’s hit “Superstar”. I also fell in love with Jamelia herself, before forgetting all about her. A couple of days ago I was sipping on a few drinks in some random bar in Beirut and the song came on: it made me the happiest guy on earth. “Superstar” has been looping in my ipod since.

On a side note, I was also thrilled to find out that Jamelia shares my passion for animals and my allergy against fur – check out this campaign she did for PETA a few years ago.