Tag: "Bloc Party"

World's End Press To Support Bloc Party
0 Comments. 428 Views. Posted 6 Mar 2013 @ 1:25pm.
The sought after support role for the Australian tour of British indie rockers Bloc Party has been filled by none other than Melbourne's own World's End Press.  Having spent much of 2012 working on their debut album, the band is ready to showcase some of their fresh tunes which incorporate enough genres to be accepted within a range of musical palates from techno to punk. Read More
Bloc Party
0 Comments. 524 Views. Posted 20 Feb 2013 @ 8:35am.
“I will always be grateful that we had the opportunity to do this,” says Gordon Moakes. The Bloc Party bassist is phoning in from Japan, at the tail end of a six-month stint of touring. He sounds drained, and ready for a break. “It’s exciting starting out when you’re feeling your way back and getting a feel for how you play together again and getting used to playing a whole new record, and then... Read More
Bloc Party Announce Future Music Festival Sideshows
1 Comments. 1,463 Views. Posted 21 Jan 2013 @ 9:15am.
British four-piece Bloc Party have announced a run of sideshows to complement their tour of Australia as part of Future Music Festival. After their explosive debut in 2005 with Silent Alarm, featuring the monster lead track Helicopter, Bloc Party further solidified their popularity with 2007’s A Weekend In The City, and 2008’s Intimacy. Following this, the band took a hiatus... Read More
2013 Future Music Festival Lineup
0 Comments. 3,558 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 7:46am.
Hola amigos! Future Music Festival is returning next March, with arguably it's biggest lineup yet. Leading proceedings for next year's extravaganza are The Prodigy and The Stone Roses, who will also be joined by PSY (ya-huh, Gangnam Style PSY), Bloc Party, Dizzee Rascal, Azealia Banks and Rita Ora.    Other huge names include Boys Noize, Hardwell, The Temper Trap, FUN.,... Read More
Bloc Party : Four
0 Comments. 609 Views. Posted 21 Aug 2012 @ 10:23am.
When Kele Okereke isn’t disappearing for years at a time to hole up in America and release solo albums, he’s muttering cryptically about the band’s imminent break-up. This must make life pretty stressful for the rest of Bloc Party, and may well explain the sense of nervous tension that runs through the band’s new album. Four doesn’t sound like it was written and recorded – it sounds like Bloc... Read More
Splendour In The Grass @ Belongil Fields
0 Comments. 639 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2012 @ 10:51am.
When you rock up to the first morning of a three-day festival, the last thing you want is to do is get pelted with pea-sized hailstones. But after that minor meterological fakeout, Byron Bay turned on an exquisite weekend to welcome Splendour In The Grass back to its spiritual home.   Post-hail on Friday, we joined the moist masses at Alison Wonderland and Yacht Club DJs to dance ourselves... Read More
Battle : Dross Glop
0 Comments. 963 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:00pm.
The unique rumble of Brooklyn art-funk-fusion outfit Battles has always been begging to be remixed. Now, thanks to the sweeping success of their sophomore album, the un-spoonerised Gloss Drop, their music undergoes a full makeover.   Having been handpicked by the trio themselves, the sheer variety of producers and beat-makers on offer reflects the group’s eclectic tastes. Much how its... Read More
Seth Lakeman
0 Comments. 1,114 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2012 @ 5:38am.
  It is odd that a local phenomenon from another country, a country 10,553 miles away, can become widely recognised here in Australia. What I am referring to is the United Kingdom’s Mercury Music Prize – an annual award for the peer-voted best album from England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. The reason it is so well-known here in Australia is that ever since its inaugural year in 1992 – the... Read More
New Order, Friendly Fires, Mark Ronson And More For Future Music Festival
0 Comments. 1,994 Views. Posted 6 Dec 2011 @ 10:12am.
Future Music Festival has always been good to us – with a gliterring few years that have seen some of the biggest names in dance music and beyond all coming together for one mad day, we’re pretty damn excited about the rapidly-approaching yearly outing with our friends at Future.  With a lineup that already boasts internationals such as Swedish House Mafia, Tinie Tempah and The Wombats,... Read More
Kele Feat. Lucy Taylor : What Did I Do?
0 Comments. 1,343 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 11:24am.
Kele is due to release a new EP shortly, The Hunter, and this dubious little club track is the lead single. What Did I Do? features Lucy Taylor on lead vocal - she was runner up in a BBC2 competition to find the UK's best chorister, apparently. Kele, meanwhile, is barely audible, providing back-up vocals in the chorus and producing dull beats to match Taylor's super vanilla voice. Bring on the... Read More
Big Scary
0 Comments. 1,788 Views. Posted 4 Oct 2011 @ 10:14am.
The golden shortbread cookies that Jo Syme has placed on the table in front of us appear even more enticing in the shimmering glow of this sun-drenched spring morning. With cups of tea in hand, she joins Tom Iansek and I with an enthused recommendation of the aforementioned cookies. Seated around a wooden table in their manager's backyard, discussing Big Scary's debut album,Vacation (one of... Read More
[PIAS] & Wichita Sign Global Deal
0 Comments. 900 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2011 @ 2:56pm.
Leading independent music company [PIAS] has signed a deal with Wichita Recordings for the world (excluding North America), which will now see Liberator Music as the Australian and New Zealand partner for all upcoming [PIAS] releases. Wichita is one of the best known independent labels in the UK. The label was founded in 2000 by Dick Green, who before starting Wichita ran Creation Records... Read More
Winter Street
0 Comments. 760 Views. Posted 16 Aug 2011 @ 11:04am.
Your name: Shane.   Your band's name: Winter Street.   What's the deal with the band's name: It's a street in Malvern off Glenferrie Road, we are yet to do a photo shoot underneath it but maybe we'll fit it in before winter ends.   Define your sound in five words or less: Radiohead, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene   Someone is walking past as you're playing, they get a... Read More
Tom Vek : Leisure Seizure
0 Comments. 2,583 Views. Posted 29 Jul 2011 @ 10:25am.
Six years. It's a long time between albums to be sure, but especially long when that gulf happens to be between a debut and sophomore. A lot can happen in the ever-shifting musical landscape, and the one that canvassed Mr Vek's We Have Sound and its taste-making mix of electro and alternative rock structures, has changed drastically; but Leisure Seizure acts as if unaffected by the intervening... Read More
Martin Solveig : Ready 2 Go
0 Comments. 1,644 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2011 @ 2:08pm.
Hello! You Ready 2 Go? Well if you're not Ready 2 Go, you sure will be after listening to French house master Martin Solveig's follow up to his Aussie summer smash Hello. This time he pumps out another absolute dance floor monster which features lead vocals from no other than the majestic Kele from Bloc Party.     Bryce Jarvis Read More
Strange Talk Release Debut EP
0 Comments. 3,076 Views. Posted 25 Mar 2011 @ 3:09pm.
Imagine "a star-crossed marriage of Phoenix and Passion Pit" and you get Melbourne pop group Strange Talk. Well, that's how American culture site Flavorpill described the band and it's not long before the word spreads with their debut, self-titled EP release on April 12.  Strange Talk was born out of the odd mix of classically trained violinist Stephen Docker, now their vocalist, and their... Read More
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