First they had the countdown last night, which revealed another countdown of sorts to a BBC radio show this afternoon, and the big reveal finally is a new single 'Mercury'. It is certainly a different sound for them, with a driving drum beat, brassy horns, and a lot more voice modification on Kele's voice than usual. Anyway, go to their website to listen to the track or to see the video for the track. I don't know if this in any way indicates something about LP3, since it doesn't directly say something about that, but they have ...
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Tags: Bloc Party, Mercury
While they were already confirmed for Lollapalooza a long while ago, they have added more US dates to go along with the trip across the pond. These guys fucking rule live, so go see them.
28.07.08 Pomona, CA - The Glass House
29.07.08 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theater
30.07.08 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
01.08.08 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
05.08.08 Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore at the TLA
06.08.08 New York City, NY - Webster Hall
07.08.08 New York City, NY - Webster Hall
09.08.08 Baltimore, MD - Virgin Mobile Festival
Bloc Party - Two More Years - From Two More Years
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Tags: Bloc Party, Tour Dates
With exams pretty much done now, it is time to return to rocking out, and what better way to do that than with a Tokyo Police Club show, eh? Saw these guys at Schuba's last year and was really impressed. Since then they have finally released their debut album and are touring in bigger venues to bigger crowds.
There were two openers for the show last night, Smoosh and Maps & Atlases. Maps & Atlases were completely lights out awesome. They were really high energy, with some great songs. Their sound is kind of in the ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: 2008, Bloc Party, Chicago, Maps & Atlases, Metro, Smoosh, This Modern Love, Tokyo Police Club
Well I was anticipating making an ACL post today, but the lineup didn't really get me excited (see my earlier post) so I have decided to go back and make the post I was going to make last week. Lolla is really in a class of its own as far as festivals go this summer, and I'm quite excited (and I have tix) for this year. Last year was a lot of fun but unfortunately I missed quite a few bands I really wanted to see because of various circumstances, but hopefully this year I will be able ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: 2008, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Lollapalooza, Radiohead, Summer Festival, The National, Wilco
Posted December 28th, 2007 by BVaz · No Comments
Courtesy of the geniuses residing on the DBF forums, we bring you the official DBF Top 10 Albums of 2007.
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
The National - Boxer
New Pornographers - Challengers
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Feist - The Reminder
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Agree or agree to disagree? Discuss it on the DBF forums...
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Categories: Main, Music
Tags: 2007, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, DBF, Feist, LCD Soundsystem, New Pornographers, Radiohead, Spoon, The National, The Shins, White Stripes
Posted October 2nd, 2007 by BVaz · No Comments
Well September has been quite a month for seeing shows. Of course we saw the end of the festival season with ACL a couple of weeks ago, as well as Snoop Dogg and the Shins at the Download Festival, but these were not the only things going on this month. There were some great Chicago shows in September outside of the big events and here is a wrap up of the best and the worst from September, as well as a look ahead at October.
VHS or Beta - Subterranean
I hadn't really heard too much of VHS or Beta ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: 2007, Bloc Party, Chicago, Editors, Hideout Block Party, Park West, Peter Bjorn & John, Subterranean, The National, VHS or Beta, Vic Theater
Posted September 22nd, 2007 by BVaz · No Comments
After two days of rocking, we picked ourselves up to bring ourselves back to Zilker Park for even more. JHall's friend Caroline was in tow for day 3, so us 3 musketeers called back the cabbie of the weekend to bring us back down to the place of rock. We actually had an extra wristband left over for Sunday, and in a brilliant move, we traded it to the cabbie for cab fare. There was no rocky top game to get in our way today, today was wall to wall rock.
Upon arrival, long time indie-rockers ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: 2007, ACL, Austin, Bloc Party, Common, Robert Earl Keen, Summer Festival, The National, Wilco, Yo La Tengo
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