Downtown L.A. to have a little Bloc Party on Oct. 6

Downtown L.A.'s newest block party will get a visit from Bloc Party on Oct. 6.

The British quartet will be one of the headliners for the second annual LA Weekly Detour Music Festival, held within boogieing distance from Los Angeles City Hall. Tickets, which go on sale at noon Thursday, are $30.50, Attendees get you four stages of music, plus DJs and displays of art. This just in: Presale tickets are $30.50, but that price expires at 10 tonight; regular tickets will be $35.50.

There's a strong local contingent in the lineup -- Moving Units, Autolux, the Aggrolites, the Deadly Syndrome and Nico Vega are on the bill. And plenty of others: Justice, Satellite Party, Kinky, Comedians of Comedy, Turbonegro, Teddybears, the Raveonettes, Shout Out Louds, Celebrity Skin, the Aliens, Busy P, Noisettes, Scissors for Lefty, Johnossi and Augie March. Among the DJs: Franki Chan, Travis Keller and Bruce Perdew.

Makes you want to start a band called the Street Closures.

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By the way, if your tastes run a little more neighborhood-y, the Eagle Rock Music Festival is again scheduled opposite the Detour. Mia Doi Todd, the Pity Party, Chuchito Valdes, Bodies of Water, the Front and the Mormons are among the acts playing the evening affair along Colorado Boulevard.

Photo of Bloc Party from www.blocparty.com.