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04.01.12 BLOC PARTY RECORDING NEW ALBUM FOR 2012
Last year Kele Okereke discovered blogging, essentially went ‘drunk Facebooking’ (hey, who hasn’t) and self-ignited rumours of his ousting from Bloc Party, leaving fans of the British alt-rock band confused and trawling the internet for confirmation of a band split.
30.12.11 RIP IT UP'S BEST QUOTES OF 2011
In the current issue of Rip It Up you'll find a small selection of our favourite quotes from the interviews we've conducted this year, but here we've expanded the list to include a few more we couldn't squeeze in.
21.12.11 RIP IT UP'S TOP MUSIC NEWS OF 2011
After a momentous year of royal weddings, narrowly escaping The Rapture, the deaths of Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, Gaddafi and Jon Bon Jovi and Kardashian infiltration into mainstream media, it’s now time to finally farewell 2011.
23.11.11 NME UNVEILS ITS COOL LIST FOR 2011
NME’s highly contentious ‘Cool List’ has returned for 2011, the British music magazine crowning an explicit female rapper from Harlem, who as of yesterday was yet to have a Wikipedia entry, as the champion of its Top 10 hippest people.
30.09.11 IS KELE SLEEPING WITH THE NME?
Bloc Party singer and solo star Kele has taken to his blog to have a go at NME and journalists after it was reported that Bloc Party were going to audition new singers.
10.06.11 KELE THREATENS TO PUNCH LIAR
Australia-bound Kele Okereke tells Rip It Up that a story about Bloc Party reconvening in a rehearsal studio in September to work on new material is a “blatant lie” and that if he finds out who has been telling lies about him, the creator of the album The Boxer will punch their face in.
30.03.11 Gay Paris announce tour
Debauched Sydney rock'n'rollers Gay Paris are hitting the dusty trail to spread the gospel of their booze-sodden lifestyles and also of their debut album The Skeleton's Problematic Granddaughter.
03.02.11 Australian Music Prize 2011 Shortlist
The nine albums nominated for the 2011 Australian Music Prize (more economically referred to as the AMP) were announced in Sydney yesterday.
20.01.11 Friendly Fires: Burning The Mould
Long adored by a buttoned-up, scruffy-haired faithful, English three-piece Friendly Fires finally managed to break through to the ‘serious’ dance fans in 2010 with their surprisingly awesome contribution to Bugged Out!’s Suck My Deck series.
11.05.10 Where the bloody hell are they?
Wondering what happened to The Wombats? Wanna know if and when The Foo Fighters are going to release another record? Well so were we, so we did some investigating and pulled a few more skeletons out of the closet.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
