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Bloc Party

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Bloc Party are an English rock band, currently composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, sampler), Russell Lissack (lead guitar, keyboards), Justin Harris (bass guitar, keyboards, saxophones, backing vocals) and Louise Bartle (drums, percussion). [1]

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A Weekend in the City

A Weekend in the City is the second studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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A–Z Series

The A–Z Series is a series of singles by alternative rock band Ash.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alex Kapranos

Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a Scottish, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative dance

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative or indie rock with post-disco dance music.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Angular Recording Corporation

Angular Recording Corporation was an independent record label founded in New Cross, South East London.

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Annie Mac

Annie MacManus (born 18 July 1978), popularly known as Annie Mac, is an Irish DJ and television presenter.

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Argyll

Argyll (archaically Argyle, Earra-Ghàidheal in modern Gaelic), sometimes anglicised as Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Art punk

Art punk is a category of punk bands which are arguably more sophisticated than their peers, and go beyond punk's garage rock foundations.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Arts & Crafts Productions

Arts & Crafts Productions is a music-focused media and artist services company that offers information as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser, and publisher worldwide.

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Ash (band)

Ash are a Northern Irish alternative rock band, formed in Downpatrick in 1992 by vocalist and guitarist Tim Wheeler, bassist Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray.

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At the Drive-In

At the Drive-In is an American rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 1994.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits (ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas, by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States.

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Austin City Limits Music Festival

The Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on two consecutive three-day weekends.

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Bancroft's School

Bancroft's School is a co-educational independent school located in Woodford Green, London Borough of Redbridge.

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Banquet/Staying Fat

"Banquet"/"Staying Fat" is a double A-side single by Bloc Party.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms

The BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms (formerly the BBC Electric Proms) was an October music festival in London run by the BBC for five years, 2006–2010.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC Radio 6 Music (also still known as BBC 6 Music or BBC 6) is one of the BBC's digital radio stations.

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Believe (The Chemical Brothers song)

"Believe" is the second single from The Chemical Brothers 2005 studio album Push the Button.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Bloc Québécois

The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty.

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Block party

A block party or street party is a crowded party in which many members of a single community congregate, either to observe an event of some importance or simply for mutual enjoyment.

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BMG Rights Management

BMG Rights Management GmbH is an international music company focused on the management of music publishing, recording rights and music distribution.

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Brass section

The brass section of the orchestra, concert band, and jazz ensemble consist of brass instruments, and is one of the main sections in all three ensembles.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Connect Music Festival

The Connect Music Festival was a music festival that took place in the grounds of Inveraray Castle, located on the banks of Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Crystal Ballroom (Portland, Oregon)

Crystal Ballroom, originally built as Cotillion Hall, is a historic building in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Dance-rock

Dance-rock is a post-disco genre connected with pop rock and post-punk with fewer rhythm and blues influences, originated in the early 1980s, following the mainstream death of punk and disco.

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Death from Above (band)

Death from Above (also known as Death from Above 1979) is a Canadian rock duo consisting of bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2001.

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Delta 5

Delta 5 was an English post-punk band from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Dim Mak Records

Dim Mak is an independent, Los Angeles-based record label, events company, and lifestyle brand founded by Steve Aoki in 1996.

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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984, originally simply called Dinosaur until legal issues forced a change in name.

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Dog Man Star

Dog Man Star is the second album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in October 1994 on Nude Records.

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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, is a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.

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Effects unit

An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic or digital device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Exmoor Singers of London Chamber Choir

The Exmoor Singers of London Chamber Choir is a choir with a strong focus on music by living composers and in particular British composers.

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Flux (song)

"Flux" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party.

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Four (Bloc Party album)

Four is the fourth studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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Four Tet

Kieran Hebden (born 1977), best known by the stage name Four Tet, is an English musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist. Hebden has remixed tracks by artists including Aphex Twin, Bicep, Explosions in the Sky, Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Rey, Manic Street Preachers, Sia, Black Sabbath and Madvillain, and has produced two albums by psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man. Hebden's recent output includes a number of improvisational works with jazz drummer Steve Reid and collaborations with Burial and Thom Yorke.

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Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.

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Freak Scene

"Freak Scene" is a song by American alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr., the opening track on the group's third studio album Bug (1988).

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Frenchkiss Records

Frenchkiss Records is an independent record label based in New York City.

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FYF Fest

FYF Fest (short for "Fuck Yeah Fest Fest") was an annual three-day music festival held at the Los Angeles Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California.

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Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group, formed in 1977 in Leeds.

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Gigwise

Gigwise is a British online music news site that features music news, photos, album reviews, music festivals, concert tickets and video content.

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GLAAD

GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a U.S. non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.

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Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

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Gordon Moakes

Gordon Peter Moakes is an English musician, best known as the bassist of rock band Young Legionnaire and former member of indie rock band Bloc Party.

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Helicopter (Bloc Party song)

"Helicopter" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party that was originally released in the UK in 2004 on the Little Thoughts EP, and two years later as a single from their debut album, Silent Alarm in the US.

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Help!: A Day in the Life

Help!: A Day in the Life, released in 2005, is a compilation album of music by contemporary artists from Britain and Canada.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Hudson Mohawke

Ross Matthew Birchard (born 11 February 1986), better known by the stage name Hudson Mohawke, is a producer, DJ, and composer from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Hunting for Witches

"Hunting for Witches" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party.

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Hymns (Bloc Party album)

Hymns is the fifth studio album by English indie rock band Bloc Party.

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I Still Remember

"I Still Remember" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party.

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I Would Die 4 U

"I Would Die 4 U" is a song by Prince and The Revolution, and the fourth single in the US from their 1984 album, Purple Rain.

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Ilford County High School

Ilford County High School (often abbreviated to ICHS) is a selective secondary grammar school for boys located in the Barkingside area of the London Borough of Redbridge.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Infectious Music

Infectious Music is a record label whose bands have included Alt-J, Ash, Symposium, My Vitriol, Seafood, The Paradise Motel and The Subways.

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Internet leak

An Internet leak occurs when a party's confidential information is released to the public on the Internet.

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Intimacy (Bloc Party album)

Intimacy is the third studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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Intimacy Remixed

Intimacy Remixed is the remix album to Intimacy, the third album by indie rock band Bloc Party.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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Itv.com

itv.com is the main Web site of ITV plc, the UK's largest commercial television broadcaster which operates 13 out of 15 regions on the ITV network under the ITV brand (or the UTV brand in Northern Ireland).

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Jacknife Lee

Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer.

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John Foxx

John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh, 26 September 1947) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Kele Okereke

Rowland Kelechukwu "Kele" Okereke (born 13 October 1981), also known by the mononym Kele, is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.

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La Roux

La Roux is an English synth-pop act formed in 2006 by singer Eleanor "Elly" Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid.

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Ladytron

Ladytron are a British electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999.

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Little Thoughts/Tulips

"Little Thoughts"/"Tulips" are two songs by English rock band Bloc Party.

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Live Earth

Live Earth is an event developed to increase environmental awareness through entertainment.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Loop (music)

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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M83 (band)

M83 are a French electronic music project currently based in Los Angeles.

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Maida Vale

Maida Vale is an affluent residential district comprising the northern part of Paddington in west London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn.

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Maida Vale Studios

Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC sound studios, of which five are in regular use, in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London.

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Menomena

Menomena is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States made up of Justin Harris and Danny Seim.

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Mercury (song)

"Mercury" is a song by Bloc Party.

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Mogwai

Mogwai are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow.

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Mogwai Young Team

Mogwai Young Team (also known as Young Team) is the debut studio album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai.

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Moshi Moshi Records

Moshi Moshi Records is a small London-based record label founded by Adrian Pike, Michael McClatchey and Stephen Bass.

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MTV Europe Music Award

An MTV Europe Music Award (commonly abbreviated as a EMAs) is an award presented by Viacom International Media Networks to honour artists and music in pop culture.

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MTV2

MTV2 (formerly M2) is an American digital cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Music Feeds

Music Feeds is a free bi-weekly digital music and lifestyle magazine (street press) established in 2008 and based in Sydney, Australia.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Natal Drums

Natal Drums (in past known as Natal Percussion Company) is an English drum and hardware manufacturing company based in Bletchley, England, United Kingdom.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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NME Awards

The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine, NME (New Musical Express).

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Octopus (Bloc Party song)

"Octopus" is a song by the British indie rock band Bloc Party, released as the lead single from the band's fourth album Four on 11 July 2012.

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Ogden Theatre

The Ogden Theatre is a music venue and former movie theater in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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One More Chance (Bloc Party song)

"One More Chance" is a 2009 single by British band Bloc Party.

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Oxegen

Oxegen was a music festival in Ireland, first held from 2004–2011 as a rock and pop festival and again in 2013 with dance and chart acts only.

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Oxegen 2007

Oxegen '07 was the fourth Oxegen festival to take place, following the dissolution of its predecessor Witnness in 2004.

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Paul Epworth

Paul Richard Epworth (b. 25 July 1974) is an English record producer, musician, and songwriter.

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Paul Mullen

Paul Mullen (born 6 September 1982) is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist & singer songwriter who first gained recognition for being vocalist and guitarist of the band Yourcodenameis:milo, who went on hiatus in 2007.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pin Me Down

Pin Me Down were a pop/electronica/rock side project of guitarist Russell Lissack, of the British band Bloc Party, and guitarist/singer Milena Mepris.

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Pioneers (song)

"Pioneers" is a single by Bloc Party from their debut album Silent Alarm.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Pixies

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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PLUG Independent Music Awards

The PLUG Independent Music Awards, or just PLUG Awards, began in 2001 as a "cartel" of music lovers ranging from DJs and managers to indie retailers and fans.

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Pomona, California

Pomona is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Post-Britpop

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period following Britpop in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar bands influenced by acts like Pulp, Oasis and Blur, but with less overtly British concerns in their lyrics and making more use of American rock and indie influences, as well as experimental music.

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Post-punk revival

Post-punk revival (also known as "new wave revival", "garage rock revival"J. Stuessy and S. D. Lipscomb, Rock and roll: its History and Stylistic Development (London: Pearson Prentice Hall, 5th edn., 2006),, p. 451. or "new rock revolution") is a genre of alternative rock and indie rock that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the 1980s.

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Postmedia Network

Postmedia Network Canada Corporation (also known as Postmedia Network or Postmedia) is a Canadian media company consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations.

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Preston, Lancashire

Preston is the administrative centre of Lancashire, England, on the north bank of the River Ribble.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Programming (music)

Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.

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Push the Button (The Chemical Brothers album)

Push the Button is the fifth studio album by English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers, first released in January 2005.

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Pylon (band)

Pylon was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia.

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Q Awards

The Q Awards are the UK's annual music awards run by the music magazine Q. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards have become one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards.

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Quicksand (La Roux song)

"Quicksand" is a song by English synthpop duo La Roux from their self-titled debut album, La Roux.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Rams Head Live!

Rams Head Live! is an indoor music venue, club, and bar located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Ratchet (song)

"Ratchet" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Roundhouse (venue)

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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She's Hearing Voices

"She's Hearing Voices" is a song by Bloc Party that was first released on 7" vinyl by London-based independent label Trash Aesthetics in February 2004.

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Shoreditch

Shoreditch is a district and Church of England parish in the borough of Hackney in Greater London, England and is part of both Central London and the East End.

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Shortlist Music Prize

The Shortlist Music Prize, stylized as (shôrt–lĭst), was an annual music award for the best album released in the United States that had sold fewer than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination.

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Side project

In popular music, a side project is a project undertaken by one or more people already known for their involvement in another band.

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Silent Alarm

Silent Alarm is the debut studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed is the remix album to Silent Alarm, the debut album by British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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Singles & Sessions 1979–1981

Singles & Sessions 1979–1981 is a compilation of previously hard-to-find or unreleased material from Leeds post-punk band Delta 5.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final 1-3 years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Splendour in the Grass

Splendour in the Grass is an Australian music festival that has been held annually since 2001.

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State (magazine)

State.ie (formerly State Magazine) is an Irish website and formerly a monthly music magazine, which launched in April 2008 and ceased to print in January 2009 having published a total of ten issues.

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Steve Lamacq

Stephen Paul Lamacq (born 16 October 1964), sometimes known by his nickname Lammo (given to him by John Peel), is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Studio !K7

!K7 Music is an independent record label and music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music.

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Suede (band)

Suede are an English alternative rock band formed in London in 1989.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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T in the Park

T in the Park festival was a major Scottish music festival that has been held almost annually since 1994 (the event did not take place in 2017).

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Talons (song)

"Talons" is the second single released by Bloc Party from their third album, Intimacy.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Automatic

The Automatic (also known as The Automatic Automatic in the U.S.) are a Welsh rock band.

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The Barfly

The Barfly was a chain of live music venues in the United Kingdom.

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The Boxer (Kele Okereke album)

The Boxer is the debut solo album by Kele Okereke, the lead singer of British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, originating in Manchester in 1989.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hunter (EP)

The Hunter is the first EP (and follow up to the 2010 solo album The Boxer) by Kele Okereke (under the professional name Kele), lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the British rock band Bloc Party.

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The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta was an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001.

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The Nextwave Sessions

The Nextwave Sessions is an extended play by British indie rock band Bloc Party.

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The Onion

The Onion is an American digital media company and news satire organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news.

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The Pageant

The Pageant (sometimes called The Pageant Concert Nightclub) is a music venue located in University City area of St. Louis, Missouri.

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The Prayer (Bloc Party song)

"The Prayer" is a song by English rock band Bloc Party.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The Streets

The Streets is an English alternative hip hop music group from Birmingham, England, led by the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.

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Tiscali

Tiscali s.p.a. is an Italian telecommunications company, based in Cagliari, Sardinia, that provides internet and telecommunications services to its domestic market.

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Topman

Topman is a British multinational men’s fashion retailer.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Transgressive Records

Transgressive Records is an independent record label based in London, England, formed in 2004.

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Trash Aesthetics

Trash Aesthetics is an independent record label founded in 2004 by Rob Fawkes and Claire Hewitson and active until 2014.

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Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green

Trinity Catholic High School is a co-educational, Catholic comprehensive school located in Woodford Green, Greater London, England.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Two More Years (song)

"Two More Years" is a single by Bloc Party.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Top 40 (TV series)

UK Top 40 was a charts-based programme which aired on Sundays at 6pm on the CBBC channel from 2002 to 2005.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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Vagrant Records

Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.

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Vice Media

Vice Media LLC is a North American digital media and broadcasting company.

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Virgin Festival

The Virgin Fest, known as the Virgin Mobile FreeFest in the United States, is a rock festival held in the United States and Canada, a spin-off from the V Festival held in the UK.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.

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War Child (charity)

War Child is a non-governmental organisation founded in the UK in 1993 which provides assistance to children in areas experiencing conflict and the aftermath of conflict.

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Wembley Stadium

Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, which opened in 2007, on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2002–2003.

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Wichita Recordings

Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green.

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Young Legionnaire

Young Legionnaire are a British band formed in 2009.

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Youth Against Fascism

"Youth Against Fascism" was the second single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty.

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Zane Lowe

Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe; 7 August 1973) is a New Zealand-born radio DJ, Live DJ, record producer, and television presenter.

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19th GLAAD Media Awards

The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1990 by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives." Here, the nominees of the 19th GLAAD Media Awards, awarded in 2008, are listed.

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References

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