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Bloc Party, EP cover


Bloc Party: EP
D. Konstrukt
Bloc Party have garnered ecstatic reviews in the UK music press for their 3 singles to date. Now they're taking the party across the pond with the release of a new US only EP.
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||| John Cale: New York in the 1960s |||
||| Henry Grimes Trio: The Call |||
||| The Izzys: Fast & out of control wins the race |||
||| The Strokes: Is This It? |||


live reviews
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Ultrasound 2004


farmersmanual and klipp av @ Ultrasound, Huddersfield, 27/11/2004
D. Konstrukt
I wandered in on Friday at the tail end of a vast electronic scream, with screens flickering black and white static, lines and crazy shapes across an audience rooted to the spot by its intensity. Looked like it was going to be a good night...
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||| Masayoshi Urabe @ Termite Club, leeds, 17/06/2002 |||


articles
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James Chance


Free Jazz Punk Rock
Lester Bangs
Just what is all this stuff? Well, guess what, folks -- the end of the Seventies, with its apparent exhaustion of forms and general disgust with what has come to be known as "fusion music," has brought us what seems at first glance to be the unlikeliest fusion of all: punk rock and free jazz. But it's been a long time a-borning, and it has antecedents. If you want to know how we got to such a strange common ground, or perhaps if you just want to be pissed off, read on.
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||| Luigi Russolo ||| The art of noises |||
||| D. Konstrukt ||| Interviews the Happy Flowers |||
||| Graeme Murrell ||| The ecstatic noise of industry simulation: Russolo's intonarumori & the Futurist sonic aesthetic |||
||| NOT BORED! ||| Unanswered questions about "rough music" |||

Henry Rollins

Cosmos

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