Bloc Party
Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Cure, East London art-punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. Consisting of singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before settling on Bloc Party. Okereke and Lissack met each other through mutual friends at the Reading Festival, and discovered that they had musical tastes as well as friends in common. Tong and Moakes ...[more]
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Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, from going out on [ read more ]
CD $15.99
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#10 Seller of 2005! Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids reared on pop culture between the years 1976 and the present day. They eventually concluded that their own attempts to imitate what had informed them could be innovative and fresh. "It's just a matter of time before London's groovy post-punkers Bloc Party take the States by storm"--Entertainment Weekly. "Bloc Party will be the band of 2005, no contest. As vital as The Clash in '77 and as sinister as The Specials in '82"--NME[ read more ]
CD $12.99
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#75 Seller of 2005! Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of kids reared on pop culture between the years 1976 and the present, and their subsequent sound is an imitation of what inspired them. Suffice to say there'd be no Bloc Party without the efforts of guitar bands formed in the UK and US in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, as well as visionary writers and artists whose work informed the world and culture as it currently stands. As NME said, "...Too artless for art-rock, too sheepish for revolution, London punk-fun [ read more ]
CD $9.99
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#72 Seller of 2005! This is a track-by-track remix of the band's debut. Highlights include remixes by Ladytron, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mogwai, M83, and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
CD $14.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, fro [ read more ]
2xLP $17.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of kids reared on pop culture between the years 1976 and the present, and their subsequent sound is an imitation of what inspired them. Suffice to say there'd be no Bloc Party without the efforts of guitar bands formed in the UK and US in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, as well as visionary writers and artists whose work informed the world and culture as it currently stands. As NME said, "...Too artless for art-rock, too sheepish for revolution, London punk-funkers B [ read more ]
LP $9.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Bloc Party unites the finest elements of post-punk energy, pop song craft, and dance floor throb, and imbues it with genuine feeling. Similar to the soul-bearing electro-pop sounds of TV On The Radio and The Postal Service, Bloc Party's songs are built around cleverly crafted pop hooks, synth chirps, sequenced loops, and real drums. For fans of Gang Of Four, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, and New Order.
12" $3.99
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Bloc Party unites the finest elements of post-punk energy, pop song craft, and dance floor throb, and imbues it with genuine feeling. Similar to the soul-bearing electro-pop sounds of TV On The Radio and The Postal Service, Bloc Party's songs are built around cleverly crafted pop hooks, synth chirps, sequenced loops, and real drums. For fans of Gang Of Four, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, and New Order. The accompanying video on this CD single for "Tulips" was shot at the Knitting Factory in NYC and in LA at Di [ read more ]
CDep $4.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Features remixes of the band's debut album tracks by such friends, artists, and associates as Ladytron Zapatista, Engineers, M83, Jason Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Automato, Mogwai, and many more. Silent Alarm is one of the best selling indie records of the year. For fans of Gang Of Four, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand.
LP $14.99
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DVD features a one hour documentary filmed around Bloc Party's June 2005 LA, El Rey shows and a July 2005 festival in France. Includes live performances of: 'Banquet', 'Helicopter', 'Like Eating Glass', 'She's Hearing Voices', 'This Modern Love', 'So Here We Are', 'Positive Tension', 'Price of Gasoline', 'Pioneers', 'Blue Light', 'The Marshals are Dead, Luno', and 'Little Thoughts'
DVD $13.00
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This is an 18" x 24" Bloc Party show poster for the June 11 show with The Noisettes at Uptown Theater. Designed by: Tad Carpenter. Limited edition, hand-numbered and signed.
Poster $24.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Bloc Party's stellar track "Helicopter" from their release Silent Alarm appears on this release in its original format as well as remixed by some of the indie rock's hottest names. This is also the first of a series of remix releases where some of the world's most famous DJs and bands remix a track by an established or up and coming artist on the indie rock scene. The series is called "Connect the Dots". This release sees Weird Science duo (Steve Aoki of Dim Mak and Blake Miller of Movi [ read more ]
12" $5.52
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