Thievery Corporation
Majestic Theatre
March 18, 2026
There’s something extremely special about seeing a song you grew up with performed live by the very artists who wrote it.
I’ve heard “Lebanese Blonde” by Thievery Corporation dozens of times throughout my life. This is electronica / trip-hop at its most potent, blended with a bevy of worldly influences. The main hook is written on a sitar. The conga drums bring in a Latin feel. “Lebanese Blonde,” in a lot of ways, feels borderless with its influences.
When Thievery Corporation started to close out their nearly two-hour set last night at the Majestic Theatre, slowly teasing out that sitar lick with an actual sitar on the stage (you just don’t see that very often!), it felt like I had been waiting my whole life for this moment.
This was my first time seeing Thievery Corporation, but there were many diehards in attendance. (“I saw them back in 1996!” was something I heard a lot during my smoke break.)
Thievery Corporation proved why fans have stuck around over the years, delivering to a full crowd at the Majestic on a chilly Wednesday night and a 9 pm. show start time.
Anchored by founding musicians Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the band brought out a rotating cast of vocalists and rappers to fill out the vocals. The absolute star of this rotating cast was Laura Vall, who never should’ve left the stage.
Her vocal performance on “Lebanese Blonde” was subtle and sweet. When the band began their second set of the night as a stripped-down acoustic outfit, it soared to new heights (I could watch a whole version of this as an extended show).
There were hyper dull moments, but that might just be my own distaste for overly positive generic raps over deep grooves. Just doesn’t strike a chord for me like when it did back when I was 14 and hearing it for the first time.
Thievery Corporation is at the height of their powers embracing the weighed down, deep dub grooves that feel intoxicating and woobly – and with Laura Vall at the helm of the vocal.
