Bloc Party
Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Cure, East London art punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. 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. Okereke and Lissack met each other through mutual friends at the Reading Festival, and discovered that they had musical tastes as well as friends in common. Tong and Moakes ...[more]
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#10 Seller of 2005! Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids reared on pop culture between the years 1976 and the present day. They eventually concluded that their own attempts to imitate what had informed them could be innovative and fresh. "It's just a matter of time before London's groovy post-punkers Bloc Party take the States by storm"--Entertainment Weekly. "Bloc Party will be the band of 2005, no contest. As vital as The Clash in '77 and as sinister as The Specials in '82"--NME[ read more ]
CD $13.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, fro [ read more ]
2xLP $17.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Includes free download card! Following a long run of summer festivals and sold out tour dates, Bloc Party brings us their newest studio effort. Intimacy Is a fittingly up-close title for an album that is, immediately, in-your-face and in-your-ear. Bloc Party's third album is a thrillingly radical record, bristling with percussive innovation, scorching riffs, orchestral sampledelia and biting emotional candor.
LP $19.99
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This is a 12" x 18" Bloc Party poster for the July 29, 2008 show with Does It Offend You Yeah. Designed by Cole Gerst [Option-G]. Put this poster in a ReFRAME! For more details click here.
Poster $19.99
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DVD features a one hour documentary filmed around Bloc Party's June 2005 LA, El Rey shows and a July 2005 festival in France. Includes live performances of: 'Banquet', 'Helicopter', 'Like Eating Glass', 'She's Hearing Voices', 'This Modern Love', 'So Here We Are', 'Positive Tension', 'Price of Gasoline', 'Pioneers', 'Blue Light', 'The Marshals are Dead, Luno', and 'Little Thoughts'
DVD $17.99
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This is an extra large blue Bloc Party Big Letters t-shirt, with that familiar Bloc Party script (from their album covers) covering the front of the shirt in white. Printed on 100% cotton Gildan Softstyle ring spun shirts.
X-Large Shirt $19.99
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This is a large blue Bloc Party Big Letters t-shirt, with that familiar Bloc Party script (from their album covers) covering the front of the shirt in white. Printed on 100% cotton Gildan Softstyle ring spun shirts.
Large Shirt $19.99
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This is a small blue Bloc Party Big Letters t-shirt, with that familiar Bloc Party script (from their album covers) covering the front of the shirt in white. Printed on 100% cotton Gildan Softstyle ring spun shirts.
Small Shirt $19.99
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This is a medium blue Bloc Party Big Letters t-shirt, with that familiar Bloc Party script (from their album covers) covering the front of the shirt in white. Printed on 100% cotton Gildan Softstyle ring spun shirts.
Medium Shirt $19.99
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This is a 19" x 25" poster for the April 24, 2009 Bloc Party Show. It is a three color screen print. Hand-signed and numbered in an edition of 100.
Poster $39.99
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Bloc Party's newest collection of songs, A Weekend in the City, is a stunning, intense and brilliant follow-up to their celebrated debut, Silent Alarm. A Weekend in the City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls the living noise of a metropolis. On Weekend, the band captures every detail from the ebullient to the mundane of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, from going out on [ read more ]
MP3 $9.99
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VINYL FORMAT. A brand new single from the Bloc Party camp, featuring the original version of "One More Chance" and the Holy Fuck remix of "Zephyrus" on the B-Side.
7" $9.99
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