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Back in 2005, the year of their stellar debut album, Silent Alarm, Bloc Party truly felt invincible. The British quartet wrangled explosive melodrama from the simplest of rock ‘n’ roll tools: the crossfire guitars of Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack, the caffeinated rhythmic thrust of bassist Gordon Moakes and drummer Matt To...
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Bloc Party have just made a song called “Ratchet,” which means they’ve — probably knowingly — co-opted the most notorious and divisive recent rap-universe slang term. And now they’ve co-opted a very different recent musical development, recruiting the hyperactive maximalist Scottish dan...
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The Maccabees, Cat Power and Tim Burgess also performed at the first day of the Suffolk festival
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Bloc Party are now on hiatus but bassist Gordon Moakes insists the band will be sustained by their love of music
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Bloc Party: to headline as Latitude festival 2013 begins
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