Having read ALLEN GINSBERG’s Howl maybe a hundred times, my inner guts still have convulsions when I read "Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland". Call me old-fashioned, but for me a singer/songwriter record should hurt too. It should make you almost cry and let you feel the burden of the weight of the world. The post City And Colour - The Hurry And The Harm appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
20/03/13 Tak usah heran jika melihat pengunjung yang sengaja (atau yang merencanakan jauh-jauh hari) untuk menyaksikan penampilan dari Bloc Party, banyak yang terlihat kuyup karena hujan memang telah mengguyur di seluruh Jakarta sejak sore hari kemarin. Saya pun lari terburu-buru di pelataran Tennis Indoor, Senayan, karena telat (akibat macet dan hujan) untuk melihat penampilan The Adams yang ditunjuk sebagai band pembuka. Mungkin sudah lebih dari 3 lagu yang dimainkan sebelum saya tiba. Antusias saya memang telah lama terbendung sejak band Power Pop ibukota ini mengabarkan akan kembali menjajal panggung hiburan setelah hampir setahun vakum. Mereka juga berjanji akan memainkan lagu-lagu [...]
It has been six whole years since my personal discovery of Bloc Party, and I have been patiently waiting that long to see them live. While regretfully not being able [...]
Taking a new directions has its ups and downs for Bloc Party on their new album, Four. 11_-_bloc_party_-_the_healing. mp3 [...]
Facebook.comBloc Party with Ceremony First Avenue, Minneapolis Saturday, September 22, 2012 The movie screen retracted toward the ceiling at First Avenue Saturday night, signaling -- as always -- th
Bloc Party - 'Four' (UK Release: 20 Aug '12) // Words: Saam Das Bloc Party 's third album 'Intimacy' came out in 2008, followed by a period of hiatus. Rumours and hearsay suggested the band may have split but four years after 'Intimacy' , they return with their fourth studio record, simply titled 'Four' - the heaviest offering of their back catalogue and also the most lacking in terms of immediacy and anthems. [...]
Bloc Party: Four - Bloc Party has returned in full force with the release of their aptly titled fourth album, Four . Originally from London, Kele Okereke on lead vocals and guitar, Russell Lissack on guitar, Gordon Moakes on bass, and Matt Tong on drums and backing vocals are Bloc Party. Together since 1999, they got their big break when they sent their demo to Franz Ferdinand who was so impressed they invited Bloc Party to play a festival with them in 2003. After a brief hiatus, Bloc Party was hoping to get back to the [...]
What Bloc Party does with Four is what every band on a hiatus dreams of – take a break, come back when they feel like it and sound better than ever. It is a hard task, with the risk of fans not paying attention to the return or the return sounding stale and used, but Bloc Party executes it perfectly. Despite a three years of separation, complete with solo albums and side projects from three quarters of the band, the British four-piece’s new album is so crisp and fluid that it seems like they never took a break. [...]
Bloc Party returns after a self-imposed hiatus with a true blue rock album. WATCH THE REVIEW
Remember last year, when Kele Okereke , Bloc Party ’s lead singer, thought he was kicked out of the band in apropos of nothing but wild speculation? The weirdest part of that whole event is how the band then felt divided into Kele versus the rest of the band, making the inner-workings of Bloc Party seem perpetually on edge. After 2008’s Intimacy , Kele took time to explore a solo career, leaving his band to wonder when they might start making music again. The awkwardness [...]
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Es un poco complicado hablar de Bloc Party sin poner como referencia lo bueno que fue "Silent Alarm": que si lo habran superado en su nuevo album? que si nunca haran algo mejor que su debut, que si acaso solamente fue una ilusion que hizo que en un inicio tuvieramos una imagen diferente a la que los cuatro comenzaron a proyectar conforme fueron pasando los años, comenzando con Kele Okereke. Ya saben, hace aproximadamente dos años decidio adentrarse un poco mas en el mundo de la musica electronica dentro de su primer material en solitario, con el que [...]
Bloc Party Four out on 8.21 Stream | CD | Vinyl Bloc Party have an unmistakable sound. If you know them even casually, the sound of Kele Okereke,’s shrill singing voice probably makes you lift your head and wonder who around you is playing Bloc Party. Like any distinct style, it is not inherently good or bad, effective or annoying. It's more about how it gets used. Now, Okereke, doesn't use his voice [...]
Bloc Party [ Twitter / Facebook ] fans, listen up: those of you (and there are plenty) who have been longing to hear the band return to their roots and produce another Silent Alarm won't be completely satisfied with this album. As for me, well, I'm not sure if they're 'that' band anymore - then again, I don't want them to be, and maybe it's time for their fanbase to stop wishing for the same thing. Seven years is a long time, and recent comments made by the band about how 'everything we've tried to do has always been [...]
Four will see daylight shortly. Watch 'Octopus' here. Like Bloc Party on Facebook. Follow 'em on Twitter. Purchase Bloc Party items via Insound. The Drums recently dropped by Daytrotter. Like The Drums on Facebook. Purchase The Drums items via Insound. Photographs by Micah Weisberg. [...]
By Michel Dussack Bloc Party’s recent warm-up tour had all the potential to either be a complete disaster or a tour that would spark the envy of anyone not close enough to a city that the band would stop at. It’s always risky playing unreleased material at a show, however to play unreleased material shortly after coming out of hiatus, when you’re already prone to being a bit rusty live, now that’s risky. However, if there’s one thing that Bloc ...
Bloc Party [ Twitter / Facebook ] fans, listen up: those of you (and there are plenty) who have been longing to hear the band return to their roots and produce another Silent Alarm won't be completely satisfied with this album. As for me, well, I'm not sure if they're 'that' band anymore - then again, I don't want them to be, and maybe it's time for their fanbase to stop wishing for the same thing. Seven years is a long time, and recent comments made by the band about how 'everything we've tried to do has always been [...]
Earlier in the month we gave you the come back track from indie-disco kings pins Bloc Party, and now we have another new one for you. 'Day Four' is the second single to be taken from the soon-to-be-released Four , their first album since 20082s Intimacy . It's a far more thoughtful, melancholic effort than Octopus was, drifting into the 'So Here We Are' territory of yester year, except tinged with more sunlight than they previously dabbled in. It's very pretty. Listen below.
It's been a long while since we've heard any music from Bloc Party. For a while we wondered whether we would ever get to hear anything from them again. But, here they are with their first piece of new music since 20082s Intimacy . 'Octopus' is the first single from their new album Four , which will be released in August, and it's markedly different from the dancier, electrofied band that left us in 2009. This sounds far more like their earler, Silent Alarm -era work than we expected. We're currently trying to [...]
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Tweet Buy the album from Amazon - Vinyl / MP3 / CD There's something in my genes that loves percussion at a deep and primal level. I can't explain it much further than this: I remember my dad drumming along on the steering wheel to anything he was listening to. He never sang or hummed along to the melodies, just drummed it out. Also, my younger brother taught himself [...]
It feels like a veritable era since Murray Lightburn's The Dears scuffled into indie spotlight to the reworked chime of The Smiths. Last year marked fifteen years of activity and whilst they may not have been the most proactive nor progressive act over said period, there's a beguiling allure to Lightburn's demure songsmithery, continued throughout Degeneration Street, that may having you swanning back to his affected hum. Opener Omega Dog evolves before your very ears, spawning amidst spare bedroom chinks of guitar and deceasing in a hailstorm of chunks of raucous virtuosity. Crude mawkishness is then reincarnated in [...]
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