NME — Bloc Party have announced a short run of shows in the US to support the release of their current album 'Intimacy'. more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Francis ChungThose North American Bloc Party dates hinted at in our last story? So totally happening. The lads from London will make their way to the States next month for a few shows on or around the West Coast. They've sandwiched this run ... more info

Pitchfork — The twentieth anniversary edition of the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction will take place December 5 at Chicago's Park West, with the aim of raising some coin for the city's homeless and underprivileged youngsters. Over the years, the... more info

Panda Toes — You probably remember La Mode from their unfathomably decent remix of "Bad Boy for Life." The O.G. was killing it when it first dropped, the remix was all over the place after it started popping up on trillions of DJs' best-of-the-month charts, and I... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — 01: Pink - Funhouse02: Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns03: AC/DC - Black Ice04: Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night05: Celine Dion - My Love - The Essential Collection06: Daniel O'Donnell - Country Boy07: Katherine Jenkins - Sacred Arias08: Bloc Pa... more info

A Walking Disast3r — Bloc Party fans all over waited patiently for October 27th. This marked the day that the final and full version of their third album "Intimacy" hit shops and arrived in the mail for everyone who ordered the digital version package. Besides a simpl... more info

Said the Gramophone — Gossamer Albatross - "The Ground Will Take Us Down". Maybe this song is about dying, maybe it's about gettin' down. It's probably both. And while "the flesh from your thighs" sound like words Jeff Mangum would sing, Gossamer Albatross hide more jub... more info

Stereogum — This is actually a pretty impressive ambush orchestrated by the La Blog folk. The story, which they posted on their site, involves the camera crew tracking Bloc Party down at a bar after the band's secret show in Paris, and proceeding to insist on a... more info

ContactMusic — BLOC PARTY have claimed that scoring a hit single is no longer of any importance to them.Bassist Gordon Lissack has even suggested that the band may stop ... more info

Pitchfork — Diplo will release a compilation called Decent Work for Decent Pay: Collected Works: Volume One worldwide on January 26 via Big Dada/Ninja Tune. True to Diplo's eclectic and collaborative form, the disc is loaded with original tracks and remixes he h... more info