Sorry for the Bloc Party overload of late, but you can watch or listen to a full show they recently did on NME. The gig takes place at the Carling Academy in Bristol and was shot on February 7th.
Watch/Listen to the show.
...From where Silent Alarm peaked. The band's second album A Weekend In The City grabbed the 12th spot on the Billboards, selling 48,000 copies. How do you think Neon Bible will do?
Fall Out Boy were #1, selling 260,000. Beyonce posed for the cover of the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Just thought I'd sneak that in there.
A Weekend In The City was overall disappointing but people are still holding on to Bloc Party hoping for more Silent Alarm type quality tunes.
During the recording process of A Weekend, the band managed to piece together 22 songs! 22-11= 11! That is right, you can serve yourself to another albumful of Bloc Party. By putting together all the B-sides, the internet has made Another Weekend In The City or as other call it The Weekend Isn't Over.
Some have already said it's better than the actual wholecost product. Decide for yourself, by downloading the whole album here (Thanks Mike). And pick up the artwork along with a couple of tracks at I Guess I'm Floating.
Bloc Party head honcho Kele Okereke is continuing his 'assault' on the music world. First it was Jack, now he has broadened his horizons by attacking the whole indie/rock genre.
In an interview with MTV, Okereke stated "I'm finding it hard to believe that singers in other bands have a mind."
He did applaud Arctic Monkey frontman Alex Turner for making "talking about every day life very in vogue and fashionable."
All this PR is occurring near the release of Bloc Party's second and disappointing album, A Weekend in the City. The lightbulb must of dinged for Kele when he took sometime to listen to his band's new album. Read more here.
Kele Okereke, the lead singer of Bloc Party, has lashed out at Jack White. Okereke states in the new NME that he was amazed "when Jack White said it wasn't his job to be critical about foreign policy because he was being paid to be an entertainer. I thought that was treacherous because it's complicit with the capitalist society."
I was not aware of this quote from Jack, but whatever. Not everybody has to be Bono, in fact, Bono has been losing his inner Bono. I like Jack because he continues the legacy of the blues in a more badass manner than anyone in the game right now. It would almost seem weird to me if Jack started busting out Kele like lines. For example, what would you think if Jack busted out "Tonight, make me unstoppable," {A lyrical excerpt from the new Bloc Party single "The Prayer"}? Those lyrics just fly right over me with their complexity. Read more here.
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Listen to the new and unknown Bloc Party track "Secret" here.
