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Bloc Party Cause Moshing

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By Aisha Khan (CHARTattack) March 20, 2009 1:04 pm
While every bar in Toronto, dive and otherwise, was subject to indie showcases featuring bands and their wandering onlookers for Canadian Music Week, the Kool Haus was graced only by openers We Are Wolves and CMW headliners Bloc Party. The lineup of wristbanded fans stretched far around the venue's perimetre down the lonely Queen's Quay, and...
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VFest Toronto Day One

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 4:46 pm
There are a few steadfast indications that it's the end of summer in Toronto: university kids are running rampant downtown, the streets are abuzz with film nerds for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Virgin Festival invades Toronto Island for two days. After a horrendous ferry ride over (media had access to a VIP ferry, but it was...
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Bloc Party — Intimacy

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 11:59 am
I recently realized (finally) that I quite like Bloc Party's A Weekend In The City. I was a huge Silent Alarm fan, and when its follow-up came out, I considered it to be a moderately clunky, though sometimes magnetic, sophomore effort. After I played the hastily released Intimacy once the whole way through, I didn't want to turn it on again for...
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Bloc Party Give As Good As They Get

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) October 1, 2007 2:30 pm
As a general rule, when a concert is moved from the hollow and impersonal Ricoh Coliseum, it's cause for celebration... unless of course that show has shifted to The Docks. That venue isn't only impersonal, it's far away from anything remotely resembling civilization. But, thanks to a complete sound system overhaul, The Docks now has at least one...
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Bloc Party's Kele Okereke (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Osheaga: Bloc Party Keep The Beat, Montreal Bands Score Big Points

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) September 17, 2007 2:00 pm
Montreal has never had a shortage of social events during the summer, so a large, corporate outdoor weekend fest was never an absolute necessity. With the increasingly diverse and relevant Jazzfest still present in the rearview mirror and Pop Montreal less than a month away, Gillette Entertainment's second annual Osheaga festival has a decidedly...
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Bloc Party Finally Get The Reception They Deserve

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 26, 2007 2:30 pm
The last time I saw Bloc Party was almost exactly two years ago on an abysmal night at the Opera House. The group were the first U.K. band to hit these shores in some years whose hype was actually legitimate, so hopes were impossibly high. Through some terrible combination of venue and weather, the crowd sucked the life right out of the room....
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Bloc Party's Kele Okereke (Photo by Rachel Verbin)

Bloc Party — A Weekend In The City

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) February 6, 2007 2:02 pm
Being a ubiquitous success story has its drawbacks. Finding ways to maintain your ideals while moving forward can't be easy, and Bloc Party had to try harder than most. The main problem is that between the time Silent Alarm and A Weekend In The City were released, the dance-punk genre they helped popularize died. In response, the band hired big...
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Broken Social Scene Kings Of Their Own Party

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By Leah Collins (CHARTattack) June 26, 2006 3:00 pm
Sun-worshipping, pot-smoking and stoner rocking on Toronto's Olympic Island: sounds like hippie heaven. So why were 10,000 hipsters there instead? They've been coming to the island for three years now, beckoned out of their usual smoky dives to shoegaze in the sun. Maybe for one day of the year, nature-loving is irresistibly ironic. But it'...
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Bloc Party — Silent Alarm Remixed

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By CHARTattack Staff September 20, 2005 3:01 pm
Just a few months ago Bloc Party's Silent Alarm rejuvenated the saturated new wave market with Cure-inspired bass lines, passionate vocals and catchy danceable tracks. It's such a great disc that people are still listening to it months later, so releasing a ripped up and reinterpreted version of the record now seems like a risky proposition....
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Bloc Party — Silent Alarm

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By Bryan Borzykowski (CHARTattack) March 22, 2005 10:18 am
Like Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party are about to storm the U.S. with some seriously infectious '80s beats and Gang Of Four-inspired melodies. It's only a matter of time until post-punk or new wave invoke eye-rolling, but don't give up on the genre just yet. Bloc Party make Franz sound tiresome, The Killers amateur and the new wave hype...
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I Read The News Today... For July 20, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 20, 2011 2:42 pm
Austra's Katie Stelmanis will appear on Trans Love Energies, the first album in seven years from U.K. psych rockers Death In Vegas. It comes out Sept. 12, and Stelmanis sings on two tracks. Moby's announced a North American tour that'll take place this fall to support his recently released Destroyed album. Go see him... y'know... if you still like...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 15, 2011 5:17 pm
A remix album of Daft Punk's score for TRON: Legacy will be released on April 5, the day the film is released to DVD and Blu-ray. It'll feature 14 re-workings of tunes Guy-Manuel De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter composed for the movie, along with alternate takes. If you head to tronsoundtrack.com and pre-order the DVD, you'll get the remix...
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Bloc Party, Ash Guitarist Attacked By Lion

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 30, 2010 10:37 am
Here's one that would make Steve Irwin go, "Crikey!" Y'know, if he were still alive.You know what they say about things coming in three? Well, Bloc Party and Ash guitarist Russell Lissack got hit with three doozies of the bad kind of threes when he was on tour with Ash in South Africa recently.According to Spinner, Lissack and Ash singer/guitarist...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 20, 2010 12:14 pm
Former Inbreds singer/bassist Mike O'Neill is helping Halifax indie rockers In-Flight Safety record new material. —TwitterDallas Green has written a song about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster called "At The Bird's Foot." But he says it's different from many of the other songs about the tragedy because he focuses...
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Video Of The Day: Kele's "Everything You Wanted"

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By CHARTattack Staff July 23, 2010 9:00 am
Breakups suck, and when you walk around your hometown alone, they suck even more. That's the feeling you get when you watch Kele's video for "Everything You Wanted," in which the Bloc Party frontman wanders aimlessly through an unnamed city. Of course, there are also inevitably tears. "Everything You Wanted" appears on...
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Kele Okereke Made The Boxer By "Feeling Around In The Dark"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 16, 2010 3:01 pm
Most musicians stick to one genre throughout their careers, become known for a certain style of writing and don't really deviate from their songwriting formula. Then there are those who are more willing to experiment, blending styles and often jumping from genre to genre with each record. Bloc Party's Kele Okereke is in the latter category...
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Ash at Glastonbury Festival 2010

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
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John Peel Stage
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Pilton, England
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June 27, 2010
Russell Lissack (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Kele Okereke Relies On Himself For The Boxer

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 28, 2010 4:14 pm
Sweaty people in shorts, pummeling each other silly until their mouths are full of blood isn't an image you'd think of when you picture a soft-spoken, gentle and — by many accounts — shy guy like Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke. He slouches comfortably on the couch at Toronto's Rivoli, taking his time to answer his questions, seeming nothing...
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Kele — The Boxer

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 25, 2010 1:42 pm
It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke's debut solo album is drenched with electronica. Bloc Party always had electronic elements to their songs, and this was showcased most prominently on 2008's Intimacy. But unlike that most recent Bloc Party album, which was a bit of a mess (to put it lightly), Okereke's...
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Kele — "Tenderoni"

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By CHARTattack Staff May 6, 2010 11:34 am
Bloc Party's Intimacy hinted that frontman Kele Okereke wanted to experiment a little bit more with techno and electronica, and now we've got this. "Tenderoni" is the first single from his upcoming The Boxer debut solo album, and man oh man is it ever techno. It's obviously got the necessary boxer references, but Okereke's new 'do makes him look...
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