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| | Bloc Party: Pitchfork Interview |
 | | Kele Okereke: I think it's that by trying to reach out for our songs to be remixed, it suggests that we know dance music is important and these people are going to take something away from our music. | | | Kele Okereke: I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. | | | Kele Okereke: Some of the songs we're writing now, so I'm thinking about how they're gonna be recorded and be presented. |
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http://pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/b/bloc-party-05
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| | Encyclopedia topic: Kele Okereke |
| | Kele Okereke is vocalist and guitarist with British (The people of Great Britain) rock (Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust) band Bloc Party (additional info and facts about Bloc Party). | | | In 2004 he collaborated with The Chemical Brothers (additional info and facts about The Chemical Brothers), singing on the track Believe from their album Push the Button (additional info and facts about Push the Button). |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/K/Ke/Kele_Okereke.htm
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| | Bloc Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The band got their break after Okereke went to a Franz Ferdinand concert in 2003, and was able to thrust a demo CD containing the song "She's Hearing Voices" into the hands of both Franz lead singer Alex Kapranos and Radio One DJ Steve Lamacq. | | | An album of remixes of tracks from Silent Alarm was released at the end of August in the UK. | | | Lamacq subsequently played the song on his radio show, labeling the track "genius", and invited them to record a live session for the show. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc_Party
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| | Preciously private - General - News - theage.com.au |
| | Okereke agreed, recording the track between two major tours, but is now casually dismissive of the experience. | | | Kele Okereke, the 23-year-old singer and guitarist for hip London quartet Bloc Party, is a shy, private person. | | | Matt Tong's position as the band's ninth drummer (he joined in 2003, five years after Okereke and guitarist Russell Lissack first met and began playing music together) may suggest a fairly high-handed leadership style, but Okereke believes the best way to manage band members is to give them at least the illusion of self-will. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/preciously-private/2005/07/14/1120934357864.html
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| | Interpol a sublime success, but Bloc Party disappoints The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | The band drew some energy from the rave-up chorus, but after the song was over, lead singer Kele Okereke apologized to the crowd, saying his band lacked the experience of playing amphitheaters. | | | Bloc Party lead singer Kele Okereke tried to keep the crowd behind his band, and he looked for positive signs from the side-stage sound crew. | | | Okereke continuedly asked to have his own monitor turned up, and drummer Matt Tong, whose syncopated rhythms drive the band's sound, seemed to lose time throughout. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050920/news_1c20block.html
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Sound of 2005: Bloc Party |
| | Okereke puts "an inclusive approach to listening to music" down as the thing they would like to represent. | | | Bloc Party is a better name, Okereke says, and the change made the music industry take notice because people thought they were a new band - rather than one that had been plugging away for several years. | | | But the first song they recorded was called This Is Not A Competition - and Okereke still sticks by that motto. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4141519.stm
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| | CONNECT |
| | British band BLOC PARTY have hit out at music 'snobs' for sneering at boybands and girl bands. | | | BLOC PARTY singer KELE OKEREKE has slammed American rockers GREEN DAY for exploiting post-Iraq anti-Americanism to sell records. | | | Drawing inspiration from key 80s bands such as the Cure (particularly in Okereke's vocals) and Gang Of Four, the quartet began to draw rave notices for their endearingly ramshackle stage performances. |
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http://www.connect-europe.com/GB/en/artist/static/000/388/node43_artist_NextRow388627.html
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| | urb :: feature :: bloc party |
| | Okereke’s lyrics are another clue, delivered with an unsettling undercurrent of disdain, hopelessness and alienation. | | | The band hopes to deconstruct all of its disparate influences on a remix album before the end of the year, which isn’t a surprise, as they’ve included tasteful remixes on most of their singles. | | | Okereke compares this developing sound to that of his favorite club night, Trash in London (Carlos D. of Interpol also cited this as a major influence in a recent URB cover story). |
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http://www.urb.com/online/features/bloc.shtml
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Bloc Party |
| | The second half of the album is excellent in-your-face punk, but loses its lyrical focus, especially on “The Pioneers,” which is the disc's low point. | | | In the death-march “The Marshals Are Dead,” a paranoid Okereke shrieks “Forever!” into oblivion, and if the guitar attack of “Staying Fat” fails to match Fugazi’s, the track gets their syncopation down pat. | | | Bloc Party may not have arrived first in the retro-'80’s sweepstakes, but this great album stakes their belated claim to it. |
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http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=bloc_party
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| | CLUAS Indie Album Reviews: Bloc Party 'Silent Alarm' |
| | Even if some of the lyrics aren’t great, it is Kele’s vocals that make the songs that bit more intriguing. | | | Yet it is Kele Okereke who is at the heart of every biting tirade with his chief songwriting duties and distinctive lead vocals standing out. | | | But this is their debut and the fact that there are so many blistering tracks on here, all can be forgiven. |
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http://www.cluas.com/music/albums/bloc_party.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts features New kid on the bloc |
| | Kele Okereke, 23, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, born in Liverpool, raised in London, from Nigerian family roots. | | | Kele Okereke, frontman for indie hot tips Bloc Party, is set to be the first black rock star on the British scene since Phil Lynott. | | | Kele cites the Cure, Joy Division and Sonic Youth, wears grandad tanktops and has a stutter. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1418255,00.html
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| | Crutch Music Review: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm |
| | Okereke and Russell Lissack’s six-strings intertwine and diverge throughout the course of the record, shifting from single eighth-note picking to melodic and intermingled chord structures. | | | Okereke begins the verse with a playful shout / sung melody before a start / stop syncopated bridge leads into yet another catchy chorus, Okereke singing “Are you hoping for a miracle?” However, the more introspective and sedate side of the scale is given due treatment as well. | | | Taking their cues as much from pre-Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me-era Cure as they do from cohorts like Moving Units and The Rapture, Bloc Party’s sound has strayed from the disco-inflected glitter of their early efforts to a more punk and new wave inflected approach on their debut full-length. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- The second coming |
| | That's the message from singer-guitarist Kele Okereke of the hot English band Bloc Party, which makes its San Diego debut Sunday at the SDSU Open Air Theater as part of radio station FM 94/9's "Back to Cool" concert. | | | However, while Okereke and his bandmates have obviously been inspired by such bands as gang of Four, the Cure, the Fall, U2, Joy Division, Sonic Youth and Echo and the Bunnymen, it's also clear they have the skill and imagination to build on those influences, not just mimic them. | | | Forget the label, and listen to the music |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050915-9999-lz1w15bloc.html
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| | DIM MAK :: bands :: Bloc Party |
| | Perhaps unsurprisingly for a musician so myopically attuned to the nuance of his music, Okereke is at least as proud of the microscopics of his songs as he is of the impression they make overall. | | | Kele picked up a guitar when his hands enabled him to do so and his brain gave him the inclination. | | | When Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack put an ad in the NME for a bass player in 2000, the two Brits listed their influences as Sonic Youth, the Pixies, Joy Division, and DJ Shadow. |
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http://www.dimmak.com/blocparty
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| | Drowned in Sound - News - Okereke concerned by non-essential press questioning |
| | The problem for me is that Mr Okereke often makes these comments about "the reason why we started this thing in the first place" etc. but if he's worth any merit at all as a songwriter he'd get his message across through the songs. | | | Interviews are a periphery part of the band's job and the key thing is the music. | | | If Kele feels the need to use interviews to explain where he's coming from then maybe he's not doing the job on the songwriting front. |
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http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/13330.html
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| | New stars on the bloc - Music - www.theage.com.au |
| | Kele's lyrics are a combination of quite intimate things mixed with an objective stand-point and general observations on life." | | | The record's eclectic sound can be accounted for by the band's diverse tastes. | | | Tong's passion is Neil Young and Black Sabbath but other band members enjoy melodic 1980s pop and Okereke relishes modern pop such as Destiny's Child. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/Music/New-stars-on-the-bloc/2005/03/03/1109700552688.html?oneclick=true
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| | The Bard Observer |
| | Kele challenged the crowd some more saying, "I know you have it in you New York." "Banquet" did manage to get some people moving a bit, but I wasn't paying all that much attention because that song is so fucking good. | | | A few songs into Bloc Party's Thursday night set at the Bowery Ballroom, lead singer, Kele Okereke taunted, "I don't care what magazine you are from, you can dance." This isn't the type of statement I was hoping to have to hear. | | | Is that a fact!?" The first girl he gave the microphone to didn't know the words so instead she screamed into the microphone. |
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http://student.bard.edu/observer/articles/ae/44
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| | Bloc Party @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham |
| | Live, it is quite frankly thrilling: its spiky guitars and Okereke's wide-ranging vocal ability make this one of the best singles of recent times. | | | The band have been playing as if their lives depended on it and Okereke has been smiling and joking with the crowd all night. | | | "Are You Hoping For A Miracle?" screams Okereke on the chorus, with more songs of this quality the album should be nothing short of one. |
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http://www.musicomh.com/gigs/bloc-party.htm
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| | CLUAS Indie Gig Reviews: Bloc Party live in New York (June 2005) |
| | Lead singer Kele briefly spoke to the crowd but it was the music that the people were more interested in. | | | Matt Tong’s drumming was on top form and both guitarists (Russell Lissack and Gordon Moakes) were impressive while Kele Okereke’s vocals differed from dismissible to boisterous. |
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| | MTVe.COM The Leak: Bloc Party "Silent Alarm" |
| | Kele Okereke also features on the latest Chemical Brothers album. | | | The band's first single "She Is Hearing Voices", inspired by Kele's paranoid schizophrenic friend, is described as disco-punk without cowbells. | | | Three years later, with not yet one single released, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand responded to Kele's emails and offered the then rather inexperienced Brits to support him and his Scottish band at Elektrowerkz. |
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http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=5380
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| | Ink 19 :: Bloc Party |
| | If Okereke was the oil, then Tong was the actual engine -- for he was the backbone of the band's sound. | | | Lead singer/guitarist Kele Okereke is clearly the oil that makes this machine of a band run. | | | Whether he's leading the crowd in a clap-along on "She's Hearing Voices," or quietly seducing the masses with "This Modern Love" -- Okereke is the focal point of the band. |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/july2005/eventReviews/blocParty.html
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| | Bloc Party - Silent Alarm |
| | A bass line skulks in the shadows as Kele Okereke’s vocals swab the injuries inflicted by the spiky playing. | | | The raw production continues on ‘Helicopter’, the unstoppable energy sustains the listener as Okereke pleads ‘Are You Hoping For A Miracle’. | | | The heavy Cure influence stems from Okereke’s near perfect take on Robert Smith’s early morning drawl. |
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http://indiecater.com/silentalarm.html
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| | ireland.com // T H E T I C K E T // New kids on the bloc |
| | Putting the "art" back into "chart" (sorry), the band don't make any allowances for the mainstream in their sound: "I'm not doing this to be number one," Okereke says. | | | It's the sort of sound a band makes when they grew up listening to Britpop, but were secretly more impressed by Sonic Youth. | | | The album was produced by Babyshambles producer Paul Epworth. |
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http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2005/0121/4290449452TK2101BLOC.html
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| | Plan 9 - Bloc Party : Silent Alarm [PA] |
| | Bloc Party: Kele Okereke (vocals, guitar); Russel Lissack (guitar); Gordon Moakes (bass guitar); Matt Tong (drums). | | | Okerere's urgent yelp most often recalls a fired-up incarnation of the Cure's Robert Smith, but the sounds the group creates echo everything from Gang of Four's staccato militarism ("Banquet") to the reverberating guitars of the Chameleons ("Price of Gas"). |
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http://www.buymusichere.net/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=07567938152
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| | In a city where sarcasm comes fast and cheap and irony is always in vogue, it's difficult to gauge whether the crowd truly fancied the band or was merely enjoying an '80s nostalgia as disposable as the old CD longbox. | | | Their engaging charm overcomes the solemnity of their songs, and the self-awareness of Bloc Party is wholly disarming. | | | The band joked with the crowd, playing licks from Interpol and the Killers between songs. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000874685
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| | Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Album Archive PM Media Review |
| | These are bands that become your own and are those that prompt people to ask, "Who's this you're listening to?" Eventually, some of these bands, which you nurtured for so long, hit the mainstream as you can proudly say. | | | You will definitely hear 80's punk influences, especially in Okereke's voice, but this is no throwback. | | | Slient Alarm, a decidedly modern-punk album that isn't afraid to soften its edges, is poised to blow open doors and serve as the latest youth anthem for our generation. |
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http://www.pmmediareview.com/archives/2005/04/bloc_party_sile_1.aspx
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| | Plan 9 - The Chemical Brothers : Push The Button * |
| | The requisite "big beat" dance-floor material is exemplified by "The Big Jump" and the ever-evolving "Believe" (with vocals by Bloc Party's Kele Okereke), but the real surprise here is the wealth of gentler tracks. | | | Additional personnel: Q-Tip, Tim Burgess, Kele Okereke, Anwar Superstar, The Magic Numbers (vocals). |
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http://www.buymusichere.net/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=72435632822
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| | NME.COM - News - CHEMICAL BROTHERS GET A BLOC PARTY |
| | [a][/a] singer Kele Okereke will join the dance duo on vocals for the track which hits shops on April 18. | | | The single will be released in three formats with CD1 featuring brand new track 'Giant', while the enhanced CD will include a newie, 'Spring'. | | | Kele Okereke will 'Believe' with the dance duo... |
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http://www.nme.com/news/112028.htm
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| | JS Online: Do you wanna dance? Head for the Bloc Party |
| | Leader singer Kele Okereke and the rest of the fun-bunch band from good old London town sure hope so. | | | Bloc Party - singer-guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist Gordon Moakes and Tong - partly came together through mutual friends, eventually rehearsing for the album in a cheap space in west London. | | | The post-punk guitar army's unsettling anthems, minimalist ballads and thrilling stop-start rhythm attack make for a very modern sound. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/music/jun05/331107.asp?format=print
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| | Bloc Party Interview 13/01/05 - LeftLion Nottingham Articles |
| | Kele: "One thing that's important is that kids don't think that we're better musicians than they could ever be. | | | Comprising Kele Okereke (vocals/guitar), Russell Lissack (guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass/vocals) and Matt Tong (drums), they're proud owners of a blistering, punk-funk sound that's designed to make you dance. | | | Kele: "We've heard that Killers fans are a notoriously hard bunch to please. |
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http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/487
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| | Cool Hunting: Catch the Buzz: Bloc Party |
| | While their sound is definitely post-punk (imagine Gang of Four mashed up with English Beat), this Brit band mixes it up with the ballad-like song “Tulips,” where Kele’s vocals are reminiscent of Morrissey. | | | Their album, “Silent Alarm,” on hip indie label Dim Mak comes out later in March, but they have a few tracks for download on their website and singles were just released January 25. | | | Now his own super hot band, Bloc Party, is gearing up to take America by storm. |
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http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/01/catch_the_buzz.php?rss
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| | Kiss my Grass - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au |
| | He may be right generally, but this seems overly pessimistic for someone whose own fans suggest there are still plenty of people for whom a band can matter. | | | "I get a lot of emails from teenagers offering their own interpretations of songs, which suggest they have walked away with an understanding or a willingness to delve into it," Okereke says. | | | - but it does play at the back of your mind as you imagine the teenage Okereke. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/kiss-my-grass/2005/06/30/1119724729129.html
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| | URChicago.com |
| | Since singer/guitarist Kele Okereke and guitarist Russell Lissack decided to collaborate in 1999, the two have been working on their songwriting, developing a direction and slowly building up the band. | | | "It's weird that Kele actually wanted me to be in the band because probably every time I saw him, I was drunk," Tong says from a hotel room in Soho, NYC, where the band did a short press tour and a solo show at the Roxy in February. | | | The following year, bassist Gordan Moakes was found by placing an ad in NME citing Sonic Youth and DJ Shadow influences, but it wasn't until late 2002 -- nine drummers later -- that Matt Tong solidified the line-up. |
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http://www.urchicago.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=311143&PT=content&TT=Sounds
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| | Princefams Forum / Bloc Party |
| | Consisting of singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before settling on Bloc Party. | | | Early the following year, the band released one of the demo's tracks, "She's Hearing Voices" as a single on Trash Aesthetics. | | | Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four and the Cure, South London art-punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. |
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http://www.princefams.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2952
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| | KLUDGE MAGAZINE - Review - Bloc Party: Silent Alarm |
| | Okereke's howling voice veers wildly between being an irritant and a joy -- sometimes both in the same song. | | | And they fill much the same space as Franz Ferdinand, except that their admittedly catchy music lacks something the previous band has: Spunk and polished flair. | | | And "Helicopter" wins the prize for one of the most fun, catchy pop songs thus far this year - it's almost impossible to sit still to this. |
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http://www.kludgemagazine.com/reviews.php?id=599
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| | tmwsiy*: roll call |
| | for those only interested in music and who also happen to be fans of bloc party's recently released silent alarm remixed make sure to check out the chemical brothers track with guest vocals done by kele okereke. |
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| | NPR : The Passionate Post-Punk of Bloc Party |
| | The group was officially formed in the fall of 2003 with guitarist Kele Okereke fronting the band on vocals, Gordon Moakes on bass, Russell Lissack on guitar and Matt Tong on drums. | | | Bloc Party's debut CD Silent Alarm is earning wide critical praise, with some saying it's only a matter of time before the band "takes the U.S. by storm." | | | Hear a Review of Bloc Party on 'All Songs Considered' |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4698503
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | Okereke's vocals of "I wanted to believe" become ever more urgent as the song progresses and there's a good range of effects and tricks from the boys throughout. | | | Here, Kele Okereke takes time out from one of this year's big success stories Bloc Party to lend vocals to this pounding number. | | | Look out too for the fantastic video which accompanies the song featuring car assembly robots which come to life and attack people - not quite up there with the Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy in terms of unsettling pop promos but certainly getting there. |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7436428&postID=111794182758614278
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| | Blogcritics.org: Live-Bloc Party at The Troc 06/18/05 |
| | The guitars are choppy, the drumming is controlled fury at its best, and Okereke's voice is a unique quasi yelp that fits well with his at times political, at times uncomfortable, and at times off beat lyrics. | | | The band was in complete control of its sound, which has been maddeningly pigeonholed by music journalists dying to try and find some genre to fit them in, or a list of bands to accuse Bloc Party of imitating. | | | Lead singer and guitarist Kele Okereke displays a confidence on stage that never even looks in the direction of cocky or pretentious. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/21/190119.php
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| | Bloc Party - dublin - rock |
| | Bloc Party comprises the musical talents of Kele Okereke on guitar and vocals, Russell Lissack on guitar, Gordon Moakes on bass and vocals and Matt Tong on drums. | | | Okereke and Lissack met at the Reading Music Festival and discovered they shared the same interest in bands like Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four and The Cure. | | | Tong and Moakes soon joined and the band delivered a demo in 2003 under the moniker Union before changing their name to Bloc Party. |
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http://www.dublinks.com/index.cfm/loc/16/pt/0/spid/2E2E43A8-67BF-4F94-84183597E128A805.htm
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| | Soul Shine Magazine : Bloc Party Rock the House |
| | Okereke admitted Toronto is one of his favourite Canadian cities, and of course, the crowd loved to hear that. | | | Anytime Okereke said something into the microphone, it refuelled the crowd’s intensity. | | | Watching Okereke makes you think you knew him from somewhere, like you bumped into his elbow at another concert, or he caught your eye walking on the street. |
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http://www.soulshine.ca/reviews/liveReview.php?lrid=125
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| | Bloc Party - Silent Alarm |
| | A rumbling, vaguely sinister song, inspired by a paranoid schizophrenic friend of Kele’s, propelled by a voice that was part agitated yelp, part robot intonation. | | | They met again at the Reading Festival in 1999 and resolved to start a band together. | | | Kele (23) and guitarist Russell Lissack (23) knew each other vaguely through mutual friends in Essex where Kele went to school and Russell lived. |
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http://www.okayplayer.com/nowhearthis/nhtblocp.htm
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| | BBC - Berkshire - Entertainment - Review: Lamacq in the City |
| | Kele Okereke is a model front man, sucking the crowd into each next song with confidence and boyish charm. | | | Each song is met with uncompromising enthusiasm and Bloc Party are lapping it up. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2005/02/10/lamacq_in_the_city_review_feature.shtml
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| | DCist: Bloc Party at the 9:30 Club |
| | Further listens seem to justify the ease with which one is able to hit repeat on this album without offending one’s scenester conscience. | | | The impressive work on the skins was the signature sound of the night, with the guitars difficult to pinpoint on all but the rip roaring-est riffs, and Kele’s stylings dissipated by a hundred adoring backup vocalists. | | | Kele addressing a request to take off his shirt (“Take off your bloody shirt,” corrected the drummer). |
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http://www.dcist.com/archives/2005/06/17/bloc_party_at_the_930_club.php
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| | Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button |
| | Push the Button keeps to a formula familiar to followers of the U.K. duo, opening with a block-rockin' break-beat track ("Galvanize," a hip-hop romp with Q-Tip on the mike), closing with an extended jam (the acid-trip carousel soundtrack of "Surface to Air") and, in between, delivering an album full of beat-wise psychedelia. | | | Certain quarters of the music press will have you believe that it's been a tough season for the former great hopes of electronic music. | | | While from the other end of the cultural spectrum Kele Okereke (singer with art-rocks Bloc Party) is featured on the chewier funk of "Believe" that employs both tuneful tones and obscure samples. |
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http://www.planet-dust.net/push_the_button.htm
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| | Mooro's User Page - Last.fm |
| | Listen to music, see charts for Bob Dylan, Belle and Sebastian, Felt, Kele Okereke; The Chemical Brothers, Q-Tip; The Chemical Brothers | | | Listen to music, see charts for Bob Dylan - unknown, Kele Okereke; The Chemical Brothers - Believe, Q-Tip; The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize, Bob Dylan - Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies, Bob Dylan - Ol' Roisin The Beau | | | Listen to music, see charts for Bob Dylan |
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| | One Louder |
| | Sure there's been bad blood between the two bands for awhile, but an actual fight had to be the creation of either imaginative fans or tabloids. | | | At first I dismissed them, thinking Okereke was a level-headed, peace loving indie rocker. | | | Later, Kele went on BBC TV and called the Art Brut singer "Fatty Argos." |
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http://www.oneloudernyc.com/2005/08/art-brut-vs-bloc-party-it-gets.html
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| | The BM Rant » Live: Bloc Party at The Electric Factory 09/10/05 |
| | Their debut album, Silent Alarm, is a top pick this year, and their live show is an energetic orgasm of post punk guitars and drums. | | | Before you can say “Second Encore” I was 3 people deep at the stage, ready for 2 more songs. | | | Earlier in the show, lead singer Kele Okereke told the crowd that he had a feeling that the Philly show was going to outdo their gig the previous night at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. |
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http://www.thebmrant.com/?p=542
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| | X-clusive: Bloc Party Get "Revenge On The World’ |
| | I was really tired and we recorded it in between two gigs on a UK tour so it was hard work.” | | | Text XFMNEWS to 83XFM to subscribe to Xfm’s Music News Alerts Service | | | The Chemicals Brothers's new single ‘Believe’ featuring Kele Okereke is out on April 18 on Virgin Records. |
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http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=news&id=79143
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