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 »

Optimus Alive! went down in Passeio Marítimo de Alges in Portugal over the weekend. Headliners included Coldplay and Jane's Addiction. The riverside fest had a nice mix of nostalgia (Stooges,…   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 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 »

True to his word, the first listen from Kele Okereke of Bloc Party's debut solo LP The Boxer is "nothing like [he's] ever done before." It is also not a Chromeo cover. Spank Rock's XXXChange…   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 »

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 »