After four years without an album, Bloc Party will return next week with Four, the U.K. band’s fourth album; seems fitting. This album is the follow up to 2008′s Intimacy, the result of new material the band has been working on for a few years. From Bloc Party’s website: “In late 2010, Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, [...]

We’re just a little over a month away from the fifth annual two-day HARD Summer music event at L.A.’s Historical State Park in Downtown L.A. Headliners include acts like dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man, the legendary James Murphy, Little Dragon, Miike Snow, Datsik, up-and-comer Lunice and perhaps most importantly the reunion of Bloc Party (whose highly [...]

Bloc Party has been working hard ever since they elusively decamped to New York in the winter of 2011 to create their fourth studio album Four — a welcome surprise for fans who mourned the band’s earlier announced “break-up”. While repetitive synthesizer anthems blow in a through breeze  and Okereke’s vocals escalate from mild annoyance [...]

It’s been 24 long years for fans of The Cars, one of America’s most important New Wave bands of the 80s. Today, May 10th, The Cars release their brand new album, Move Like This, on Hear Music/Concord Music Group. Produced by Garret “Jacknife” Lee (Bloc Party, U2, REM, The Hives, Weezer) and The Cars, the [...]

Bloc Party’s highly anticipated third long play, Intimacy, was released digitally in August almost overnight, with almost no publicity or announcement. Many thought it was to avoid leakage and piracy, but Bloc Party insist it was simply because they wanted to get their music out. Well, they dropped the physical CD out 2 weeks ago, [...]

Bloc Party and Does It Offend You, Yeah? will be hitting the road this summer to the delight of indie dance kids everywhere. Kind of a strange pairing, but could be fun — first you’ll get all pumped up on Stoli Red Bulls and dance in fits, then pop a couple painkillers and let Bloc [...]