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  Coldplay, Blink, Bloc Party Call for Haiti Relief

  January 18, 2010 – Tuesday, Jan. 13, a massive earthquake hit Haiti, flattening its capital city, Port-au-Prince, killing up to 50,000 people and leaving 2 to 3 million survivors in dire need. …
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  Watch: Bloc Party's Haunted House

  July 2, 2009 – With a pulsing piano melody and skittering, rave-style beats, Bloc Party's new song "One More Chance" is the perfect soundtrack for a night on the dance floor. …
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  Bloc Party's New Video: Is That a... Woman?

  March 16, 2009 – What a wake-up call for a Monday morning! Bloc Party just released the video for DJ Armand Van Helden's throbbing remix of "Signs," off the forthcoming Intimacy Remixed (out in May), which features new versions of all 13 tracks from 2008's Intimacy. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week, November 10-16

  November 15, 2008 – It was a baffling week, one filled with plenty of love and hate. …
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  Bloc Party: "Sex Pistols' John Lydon is the Devil"

  November 14, 2008 – While longtime smack-talkers like Oasis and Kanye West are doing their best to quash the beef, Bloc Party singer/guitarist Kele Okereke is just slipping on his boxing gloves, offering a few fightin' words for Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon. [Via NME.com] According to Okereke, the two Brits got into an altercation this past July at a music festival in Spain when Lydon's crew racially abused him. A backstage brawl allegedly ensued. …
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  Wilco, Feist, Obama, and Others Donate Memorabilia

  November 4, 2008 – The 20th anniversary edition of the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction (set to take place December 5 at Chicago's Park West) has amassed an unbelievable list of participants who have pledged to donate goods to raise funds for the city's homeless and underprivileged youth. …
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  New Albums from Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, and More

  October 28, 2008 – Here's a rundown of the albums available online and in record stores today: Bloc Party, Intimacy Restless musical magpie chirps another ravaged chapter. READ REVIEW Eagles of Death Metal, Heart On Transcending side-project goof, rock dudes get joyously crude. READ REVIEW Tom Gabel, Heart Burns Anarcho-punk bard unplugs machine, still wounds fascists. …
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  SPIN's Week in Review, August 18-22

  August 22, 2008 – It was a busy week in SPIN.com-land, as we deployed our fearless rock'n'roll vagabond Zack on the road with Radiohead; hosted a stream of the entire new LP from Heavy Heavy Low Low; and debuted tracks from the Verve, Mercury Rev, and School of Seven Bells, among others. …
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  New Bloc Party Album Out Digitally August 21

  August 18, 2008 – Like Beck and the Raconteurs before them, Brit post-punk outfit Bloc Party are challenging the industry status quo, announcing the release of their new album less than week before it's set to arrive. That's right, Intimacy, the quartet's third full-length to date, will drop globally this Thursday, Aug. 21 as a digital download. But unlike their forbearers, frontman Kele Okereke and co. …
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  Live from Virgin Mobile Festival '08: Bloc Party

  August 10, 2008 – As we noted in our live review from earlier this week, Bloc Party seems reenergized by their new material, like new single "Mercury." And while that was truly a set highlight during their afternoon romp on Virgin Mobile Festival's South Stage, Silent Alarm favorites carried the day, particularly a rousing version of "Like Eating Glass." Watch Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Matt Tong, and fill-in bassist Daniel Lindegren (taking Gordon M …
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