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Klaxons are a Mercury Prize winning English band, based in London. The band consists of Jamie Reynolds (bass, vocals), James Righton (keyboards, vocals) and Simon Taylor-Davies (guitar) with drummer Steffan Halperin being officially added in 2007. Following the success of previous singles "Magick" and "Golden Skans", the band released their debut album, Myths of the Near Future on January 29, 2007. The album won the 2007 Nationwide Mercury Prize. |
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News in english
about Klaxons
(September / 2009)
Klaxons back Speech Date: 10 Sep 2009
Yahoo.com -
Klaxons have voiced their support for this year's Mercury Prize winner, Speech Debelle.
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Speech Debelle to meet Gordon Brown, gets Klaxons praise, does some other stuff Date: 15 Sep 2009
Drowned In Sound -
Wow. 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. No, it's not that.
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Rockin' Our Turntable: The Big Pink Date: 21 Sep 2009
Chicagoist -
The core of The Big Pink are Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, two guys up to their fancy headphones in electronic music. Furze used to play guitar with Digital Harcore wunderkind Alec Empire, and Modell owns the label that has at various curated releases from the spaz-dance of Crystal Castles, Klaxons, and the unbridled rawk of Titus Andronicus. So when the opening chords on A Brief History of ...
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Metronomy, HMV Forum, London Date: 22 Sep 2009
Independent -
Klaxons started the nu-rave "movement" as a semi-fictional scam, but its after-effects can still be felt tonight. Devon's Joseph Mount, the man behind Metronomy, is associated with the briefly burning scene through remixing and touring with Klaxons, and the nod to their glow-stick fad in the pulsing chest-lights his band wear. More vitally, the way he approaches introspective, guitar-loaded ...
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Will Microsoft's Courier Deliver the Goods? Date: 23 Sep 2009
TechNewsWorld.com -
You didn't even have to open up your notebook computer Wednesday to hear the alarms and klaxons going off in the technology blogosphere: Someone had leaked images and video of a dual-screen, multi-touch tablet PC that's supposedly in the "late prototype" stages at Microsoft.
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