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Over 40 bands will take the outdoor stages of the 2007 Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, going down this year July 27 and 28. The Block Party website announced the first of those acts recently, and so far, the bill includes Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, Viva Voce, the Cave Singers (ex-Pretty Girls Make Graves), and recent Sub Pop signees (and Band of Horses associates) Grand Archives on the first day and Spoon, Aesop Rock, the Blakes, the Intelligence, and the Whore Moans on the second day of the festival.

Tickets go on sale April 20.

Block Party organizers will announce the rest of the lineup on May 16 (keep checking The Stranger's CHBP page for updates), and we're suddenly wondering... Have Bloc Party ever played a block party?