Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Check out who made the shortlist - then cast YOUR vote to see who winsNME.COM can reveal the nominations for the Shockwaves NME Awards 2009 today (January 26).Following weeks of voting, we have counted up your votes and can now announced this year's ... more info

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Pitchfork — Photo by Francis Chung Intimacy, Bloc Party's herky-jerk synthed-up third album, has been out there marinating for a few months now, but they're not done with it. A couple of weeks after their current European tour ends, they'll be jetting off for a ... more info

Silent Uproar — Bloc Party have lined up worldwide tour dates from January 25th through May around their latest album, Intimacy. Longwave will join them on the US leg. more info

DJmag — 2009's Bloc Weekend is bringing the eclecticism to Minehead on the 13th - 15th March. more info

Totally Fuzzy — MockBa said... LA ISLA RECORDS // UPDATES * Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2007) * Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005) * Audioslave - Audioslave (2002) * Blur - The Best Of (2000) * Oasis - Acoustic At The... [Visit the blog for the full post] more info

A Walking Disast3r — To be more specific The Church nightclub here in Denver. Kid Millionaire himself brought his crazy West Coast party mayhem to The Mile High Thursday night to the delight of the near sold out crowd. This was my first time seeing the Dim Mak Records ... more info

AngryApe — When the two bands shared a bill at Christmas more info

NME — Bloc Party's Kele Okereke has launched a thinly-veiled attack on The Killers. more info

AngryApe — The band will soon be touring with Longwave as support more info