Klaxons

It's Friday again, which means it's time to take a look back at what our favourite musicians have been up to on Twitter over the past seven days. Read More

With rave air horn noises, a snatch of a female sampled vocal and a shout of "DJ," the Klaxons deliver you into their hyperactive, almost violent, cacophony of a song that was soon to become the flagship for the dreaded term Nu Rave. But the fact remains that this is a blistering piece of music, that is constantly surprising, exciting and even three years later sounds energetically fresh. Read More

The musicians started Tweeting about the party, hosted by emerging singer-songwriter Alan Pownall on Friday (October 2). Read More

Mark Ronson, Hot Chip and Klaxons have all donated signed plectrums as part of an online auction raising money for a music charity. Read More

This is probably the only 'new' song we'll get to hear from Klaxons for the foreseeable future. Read More

As the penultimate track on "Speech Therapy", this track can sometimes not receive as much praise as others, I think in particular the 3rd verse showcases why Speech is someone with definite star factor, it's an incredibly poignant song. Read More

Before you go mad and set the dogs free, it's not Gordon Brown jumping on whatever bandwagon it is which Speech Debelle rides around town in and desperately trying to get three people in the street he bumped into who said they "might" vote Labour to actually vote for them. Read More

One of the minor and miserable themes of my 00s has been the generally vain search for a British indie hype that I could enjoy. Read More

Klaxons are to release a new single next month. Read More

Whatever is happening to Klaxons' next album (we keep hearing tell of brilliant, weird recordings that the cloth-eared major they're on insist on sending back), the boys have found time to record a track for the next in the series of Suicide covers 10" record on Blast First Petite. Read More