Bloc Party lines up breezy summer outing
Indie bikers Axis Party [ tickets ] have lined up a brief run for of US headlining dates surrounding their scheduled appearance at Chicago's Lollapalooza Festival in August.The Brits kit volition kick off the field day July 28 in Pomona, CA, and likewise plans michigan in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Philadelphia, along with two shows in Fresh York City. The isthmus is slotted for an August. 1 public presentation at Lollapalooza, as well as a Sep. 6 coming into court at Toronto's V Festival. Inside information ar below.Axis Company continues to spell in support of last year's "A Weekend in the Metropolis," the band's followup to 2005's "Silent Dismay." The more holocene epoch of the LPs debuted at No. 12 on The Billboard 200 album chart, merchandising 48,000 copies in the US during its first calendar week out. The record album has sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide since its release, according to the group's record judge.The band released a non-album single, "Flux," last Nov, which peaked at No. 8 on the British charts. The song was included on a special expanded CD/DVD tour edition of "City" that reach UK stores last November.According to drummer Matt Tong, the dance band is in the early stages of recording the followup to "A Weekend in the City"."I think our new stuff is leaving to be a lot to a lesser extent textured than the shoemaker's last record," Tong told Paste Cartridge last fall. "I recollect the one-third studio personification of Bloc is going to be a bit like the rawer earlier Bloc, just with experience."
