#this is bloc party

[sonic-gonzo]

Saturday night at the Hordern Pavillion Sydney Australia - BLOC PARTY (181123)

[justlikeheavenfest]

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[paper-mario-wiki]

Scout Murders Her Followers (song)

[aeolianblues]

‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014, ‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014, ‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014, ‘Indie sleaze’ is not 2014!

It’s not tumblr-core and it’s not Lana Del Ray or 2013 AM, it’s not #girl interrupted, it’s not Ethel Cain (she literally is an artist of our time, what are you on about.)

It was 2001 with the Strokes on the cover of the NME every 2 weeks, it was cabaret night and English poetry with the Libertines in 2002, it’s those red and blue military jackets, it was the fucking grease in Julian Casablancas’ hair, it’s ’cocaine was the banker’s drug’ quoth Alex Kapranos, it was Don't Go Back To Dalston and the heroin, it was red and black horizontal striped tops and tight black shirts as evening wear, it was Russell Lissak’s mop top and a full page interview with London hairdressers in the NME in 2005, it was Jack and Meg’s saturated red and white dresses, it was glued glitter on the cover of Santigold’s first album, it was the sleaze and the sex of CSS’s music, it was ‘cold light, hot night’, it was the anti-Bush and anti-war stances of the bands at the time, it was America by Razorlight, it was Popworld on telly and Simon Amstel being a little shit to musicians, it was Karen O defying death on stage nightly, it was throwing up in shitty nightclubs on god knows what drugs, it was the fucking danger knowing this could all collapse any second—and rightly, it should. It was the godawful egos at DFA, it was knowing that while you were lucky to be seeing these bands live, you’d fucking hate them if you had to spend even a minute in their individual company. It was Amy Winehouse telling the world to get the fuck out of her business, it was Leslie Feist and Peaches sharing a dilapidated flat above a sex shop in Toronto.

It was horrible camera flash and red-eye editing softwares and putting your feet by the warm, spinning fans of your computer while it whirred away and downloaded your albums in *checks* 46 more minutes. It was horrible, it was dirty, it was gritty, we all hated it and thought the 90s were the last time music was good and that nothing good had happened since 1997. It was garishly bright clothes we were all embarrassed of by 2011, it was multiple layers and leggings and asking your mum to cut the itchy tag on the back of your low rise jeans only for her to snip your back. It was bell bottoms at the start of the decade. It being thankful that by 2017, no one would dream of wearing low rises anymore, please please, please let them never come back.

It was faux nostalgic of the past itself. It was ‘please make sure baby you’ve got some colours in there’ in your clothes. It was moral panic over emos. It was wanting to escape into a better past that you could see was visibly impoverished in the present. It was watching your favourite programmes become less and less relevant on air. It was watching MTV decisively die a horrible death. It was watching important venues and nightclubs get bulldozed. It was watching the last regular broadcast of Top Of The Pops in 2006. It was seeing how the 2009 financial crisis most definitely put a stop to independent music in the western world for a decade, it was watching the rise of bedroom DIY and electronic music. It was seeing the phrase ‘SoundCloud rapper’ being coined. It was the rise of Disney pop. It was counter-culture Justin Bieber hatred. It was the MS paint meme of those tumblr girls thoroughly unimpressed by the guy.

It was not using the words ‘indie sleaze’ at all, in fact. That’s a retconned word. It was garage rock revival. It was ‘post-grunge’. We didn’t care what it was called, we hated it all the same. It was a lead into a decade of despair and nihilism, it was the last hurrah for the music industry before it splintered into a thousand little online ecosystems, it was the last time we had physical community and any shared pop cultural moments. It was Live8 2005. It was the same as it is now, and it was a time that’ll never happen again, for better and for worse.

But one thing is for sure: it was decisively dead by 2014. Santi and Karen O’s 2012 collab was its last hurrah and it was dead by Comedown Machine by the Strokes (2013). It has nothing to do with 2014.

[mightypurpurea]

I have decided that something must change

[yuzudonut]

Driftrod is about being friends with someone on a very shallow level while having delusions about the actual depth of your relationship. Post-funeral driftrod is about being a lonely widow and you realize most of your friends are either dead or moreso your late husband's friends than your own. All you have is that guy you who defended you that one time and you dedicated yourself to before realizing he'd never do you right and moving on. On the other side, Lets Fake It Till We Make It Babbbyyyy!!! 🗣🎉‼️

[gazihsah]

「there will be no exultation」

[wintersoulwitch]

We are in a state of F L U X

🎵 Bloc Party - Flux | Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith fanvid | YouTube

[chroniclesofnadia111]

fifteen bands/artists u love, and ur fave song by each.

Thanks for tagging me @itssedon 💕 ppl be tagging me in stuff throughout the day & I be forgetting to come back and try and respond, so lemme do this right now before I forget 😂🫡Wish we had more than 15 choices but then this list would never end fr lol 😩just know I’m shit at picking one fave, especially for artists I truly love, so just consider this a general list of some my faves.

1. Lojii- sposed2feel

2. Kate Bush- The Sensual World

3. Knxwledge- OpinyunGayme

4. Aaliyah- It’s Whatever

5. Chris Crack- Turning Down Pussy Builds Character

6. Cleo Sol- Promises

7. Mad Season- River of Deceit

8. J. Dilla- Baby

9. Sade- Flow

10. The Smiths- This Charming Man

11. Ka- Mourn At Night

12. Jill Scott- Cross My Mind

13. Nine Inch Nails- Sanctified

14. Westside Gunn- Kitchen Lights

15. Bloc Party- Real Talk

I’m tagging: @serpent-honey @universalstudent @ladygem1ni @orbium @fivestarsoulmotel @sigmararete @3-tearz @negroglo @defjux @saturniinne @theblueingreen & anyone else who wants to partake. No pressure 🖤🌹

[nitewrighter]

I feel like "Voting as harm reduction" falls under the category of, "Does your leftist praxis involve doing the dishes" like yeah no, it's not ideal but it's kind of bare minimum.

[sneverussape]

the last summer spent together circa their early teen years

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And I can see our days are becoming nights. I could feel your heartbeat across the grass. We should have run. I would go with you anywhere.

[samazine]

it's not enough

#76 of my top 100 songs 2024: helicopter by bloc party

[justlikeheavenfest]

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

The text of the motion — presented in a closed-doors session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee — calls for the government to find the quickest way toward recognizing a Palestinian state and asks the committee to dedicate four study sessions toward the matter, sources said. CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter. CBC News reached out to several MPs on the committee across party lines, but none agreed to offer a comment, citing the confidentiality of its in-camera sessions. The sources said the motion found approval with the committee's NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs, but did not go to a vote because it was filibustered by Conservative members. 

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[aeolianblues]

Working out what Kele’s tone setup is bc I think I have the same amp hee hee

[tomorrowusa]

Just 4 weeks until Canada's election 🇨🇦

Things continue to look brighter for the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) headed by new Prime Minister Mark Carney.

At CBC Poll Tracker, Éric Grenier now gives the Liberals an 80% chance of forming a majority government and a 13% chance of heading a minority government.

The chances of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) winning a majority are at 1% and the possibility of a Conservative minority government are at 6%.

Another way to look at it is the number of projected seats each party would take if the election were held today.

In addition to the Liberals and Conservatives, there's the Bloc Québécois or BQ (a party favoring independence for Québec which fields candidates only in Québec), the left of center New Democratic Party or NDP, the pro-environment Green Party, and the far right People's Party of Canada.

From Philippe J. Fournier's 338Canada, a reminder of how dramatically the Liberals' fortunes have improved since Christmas.

On December 22nd, the CPC were at 45%, the LPC at 20%, and the NDP at 19%.

The decline of the vote share for the NDP has a lot to do with the remarkable surge for the Liberals. Though the Liberals have also picked up Conservative votes in populous Ontario and BQ votes in seat-rich Québec.

But ultimately the LPC has Canada's revulsion to Donald Trump to thank. And replacing the unpopular Justin Trudeau with Mark Carney has done wonders for the party.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is seen by many Canadians as too close to Trump.

Is Pierre Poilievre too 'in sync' with Donald Trump?

It doesn't help the CPC that their campaign has not exactly been a well oiled machine.

Conservatives fear 'dysfunctional' campaign and 'civil war' in the party: sources