Bloc Party have detailed their return to Australia, less than two years after they were last here on a co-headlining jaunt with Interpol. In August 2025, the UK indie-rock veterans will return for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been more than a decade since Bloc Party swung through Minnesota. That dry spell will come to an end this summer when the ...

Back in February, Bloc Party announced a tour celebrating 20 years of their 2005 debut album Silent Alarm, with support from Metric. Shows begin in May, but they’ll be without Metric, who have now ...

Earlier this week, UK rockers Bloc Party commemorated 20 years of their debut album, “Silent Alarm.” In honor of the anniversary, Phoenix New Times music editor Chris Coplan has penned a brief ode to ...

Listeners attuned to circa-1980 British post-punk will probably hear Bloc Party's debut album as the latest attempt to revive that style, in the manner of Franz Ferdinand, Interpol and the Futureheads ...

Silent Alarm, Bloc Party‘s first album, came in this weird little bubble of time when all these jittery postpunk bands with nervous rhythm sections and vaguely anthemic choruses were coming out and ...

One of the terrible realizations a band goes through after a successful debut album is that their fans expect a follow. It's a difficult task to tackle as artists wonder how much they should tweak ...

For just shy of two decades, Bloc Party have subverted expectation. From 2005’s critically acclaimed Silent Alarm, which birthed the immortal guitar anthems “Banquet” and “Helicopter,” to 2008’s ...

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 ...

Bloc Party are celebrating 20 years of their 2005 debut album, Silent Alarm, by playing it and other favorites on a North American tour. The shows begin with Pasadena, CA festival Just Like Heaven and ...

Metric will join them for the shows, and they’ll be performing their 2009 album Fantasies in full, along with their own greatest hits. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. local time, with ...

Bloc Party have announced a special 20th anniversary reissue of 'Silent Alarm'. The 'Banquet' hitmakers released their debut album - which peaked at number three in the UK charts - in February 2005, ...