Klaxons were incredible last night and the crowd was awesome (for once)

what am i not getting about this band? they sound like a band that you think sucks as you listen to them rehearse in their space next to yours.

my thoughts exactly, sounds like a zillion other shitty bands that try to play out before they can even play their instruments or their own songs!!!

they have no momentum, too loose/sloppy, out of tune in an annoying way and the extremely played out wanna-be late 70's falsetto voices are the last straw....just wait a year or two and people will be embarassed to admit they were into these people. Pure hype-machine baloney, they have some friends in the "industry".

Maybe one day I will actually be blown away by a hyped up new artist/band when I hear them again.

i respect that you want people to be all tight with their craft. But i f*cking had fun last night and love seeing them out there all teenaged, tired, stoked and loving it. some bands will always be technicians and craft big shows and some will be raw and shitty.

Each will judge things on emotion, technical craft, hype, expectations, etc. in whatever way we want.

This just plain sucks. Saw them at Studio B and they sucked and i'm sure they sucked last night as well.

Of course you had fun last night...you were high, drunk or both and enjoyed your night out which is perfectly fine but this "new rave" is exactly like "old rave"...great when you're "in da club" all fucked up and in the moment but take that shit home and try to enjoy it in the comfort of your living room/bedroom...just doesn't translate...

I whole heartedly agree with the above poster who said:

"just wait a year or two and people will be embarassed to admit they were into these people. Pure hype-machine baloney, they have some friends in the "industry"

Just such desperation amongst the hipsters/tastemakers for new music daily that too much average or even below average stuff gets hyped as the next big things and the klaxons are definitely in that group.

last nite put me to sleep. i was pissed shit disco couldnt' make it did they even play for an hour?

more pictures of hot bespangled girls plox

re: "...you were high, drunk or both and enjoyed your night out..., but this 'new rave' is exactly like 'old rave', great when you're 'in da club' all fucked up...," put like that, i concur. seriously, why put these guys down? nobody bent your fuckin' arm & forced you to buy a ticket. it's asshats like you casting a downer spirit over those who went to enjoy. i was at the philly show and saw for myself that they were doing their best onstage. those who dug 'em dug 'em - generally speaking anyone not standing still impersonating a statue. so they ain't the arctic monkeys, so what? maybe the nyc crowd should've loosened up, shook their collective ass a bit more & tried to have fun. to sum up, you went out for a bad time & you had one. po' you. keep it to yourself.

That'd be me in the gold headband.

The show last night was fucking incredible, and those stereotypes are cute and all, but some of us were very much sober and just wanted to have a good time, which we did. Klaxons are not going to change the world or blow anyone's minds musically, they're just raw and fun live, and I'm not embarrased to say I enjoy them.

i was far from sober and had an excellent time.

"just wait a year or two and people will be embarassed to admit they were into these people. Pure hype-machine baloney, they have some friends in the "industry"

i started listening when they first came out and i am ashamed that i actually used to like their music. i am so sick of them now especially when i see them on mtv. it's pure crap and i cant believe i bought into the hype.

"Friends in the industry?!"

What kind of information are you getting, dumbass?

Have you seen their first videos? They look like they were shot by their dad with an old VHS camcorder with a budget of two dollars. Those "friends in the industry" really helped them out there. They had it real easy.

How are they hyped and Amy Winehouse isn't? Glad they beat her instead for the Mercury Prize over that "no-talent-gimmick."

Anybody who calls Winehouse a "no-talent-gimmick" needs to seriously get in touch with reality. And yeah, Winehouse, Klaxons, and everybody else with at least some commercial or critical success suck. All you guys have talent coming out of your asses I'm sure.

it's not that their successful, they just suck period. bland as hell. the fact they have commercial success makes it even worse. NME bullshit on acid. some people like a little more substance in what they listen to. Winehouse has got a set of pipes, played the media really well with that whole wino image, and probably will be looked at as a flash in the pan (i hope not, but it seems that way).

12:55 how naive you are. you really think they got big because they "worked hard"? they knew people at i-D and NME who started hyping them up. that's how they became successful, DUMBASS. not because they're fucking talented. but i'll be proven wrong since we'll all be listening to the klaxons in 2020 because they're just so damn revolutionary, right?

No, you'll be proven wrong because nobody gives a shit about what NME thinks, or Rolling Stone for that matter. Two useless rags that's been out of touch for years.

Three useless rags if they throw you into the mix.

I had a great time when I saw them at Studio B this spring... It was fun. We were trashed. Good times...

But I am over them. Don't care for em anymore. Nothing wrong with those that are in the moment who dig em. But the "in the moment" comment is a good way to put it. Not much lasting merit.

I think people are skeptical of this band not because of how much talent they actually have or how good there first video was or whether or not you should be intoxicated to like them (wow, where did that tired argument/debate come from mr. raver?) but more because they are being pushed as the frontrunners of a "new genre" despite the fact that their music has little to nothing to do with rave.

Throwing in a siren loop in a song and covering "not over yet" does not make you a "rave" band. Its just a stupid gimmick (like UFO pants, stuffed animal backpacks, candy bracelets, etc). And yeah, personally I think their music is pretty bad.

You know, they never asked to be NME's new big thing. If you've ever heard them talk, they had no intention of being this big, and they've never once referred to themselves as, or pretended to invent "nu rave." They started the band as soemthing to do for fun. Everything else is just a label that got stuck on them and now they're expected to wear neon all the time and do hallucinagenic drugs, neither of which is true.

I think it's stupid when people dislike a band just because of the attention they're getting. When NME stops talking about them, I'll still like them. End of.