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.
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.
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.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."