After announcing a new record was in the works in January, Bloc Party's Kele Okereke took to his website to reveal details for Bloc Party's new album, Four, the band's first new album since 2008's…   Read Story »

New year, new albums in the works from stylish bands of the aughts. This week, Zane Lowe's BBC show has been the staging ground for announcements by the Killers' Brandon Flowers and Bloc Party's Kele…   Read Story »

The "Festival Issue" of Five Dials magazine includes poetry by Ryan Adams, a short story by Kele Okereke, ruminations by Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld, and essays by James Murphy, Dean Wareham,…   Read Story »

Two things you'll learn after watching this video: 1) Kele definitely could have given you everything you wanted, everything you needed and 2) He's sad about it. Don't cry, Kele! Don't you know…   Read Story »

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke's launched his solo project with three tracks ("Tenderoni," "Rise," and "Walk Tall"), one video, and two biceps, now it's time to tour. His forthcoming LP The Boxer…   Read Story »

Bloc Party spin-off Kele Okereke pumped iron then ran straight to the dance-floor with his "Tenderoni." Now we have a couple additional tracks from the XXXChange-produced The Boxer. "Rise" is an…   Read Story »

Last month Kele Okereke sent an email with a note saying he'd been spending time in the studio with XXXChange, and a picture showing he'd been spending the rest of it in the gym getting totally…   Read Story »

The artsy post-punkers gone club-music obsessed album-release machines of Bloc Party seem to be on a break, or at least that's what drummer Matt Tong suggested some months ago. And then there was the…   Read Story »

Bloc Party's tricked-out remix of Tunng's spaciously hushed …And Then We Saw Land lead no doubt helps the song live up to its name. "Hustle" is quietly percussive and forward-arcing in its original…   Read Story »

From this quote producer Hudson Mohawk gave the BBC, it's hard to say if he's working on Kele's solo album with someone from Spank Rock or if they're two separate projects, but whatever: this is…   Read Story »