Klaxons: Free Stuff, Free Show, Free Awesome

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 9, 2007 7:40PM

Lots of our friends are jealous that we're going to see Klaxons play a sold-out show at Schuba's next Monday. We feel badly that our friends feel that way, but, dude, they should have bought tickets beforehand since it was pretty obvious that shit was going to sell out right quick!

Well, now our friends can be a tad less miffed with our good fortune, since Klaxons are augmenting their Chicago stop with a FREE show for "Free YR Radio" at the Urban Outfitters location in Wicker Park on Sunday at 5 p.m. We never thought this phrase would pass our lips, but there's finally a good reason to inside an Urban Outfitters, huh?

On top of that great news, we have even better news. We've got two prize packages to give away including: Klaxons’ Myths of the Near Future full-length, a sticker sheet, and a poster!

Now, for those that aren't our friends, a word about the group. Klaxons are one of those bands British music weeklies trip all over themselves trying to coin a phrase for, only to get things woefully wrong in their efforts to beat all the other hack English music "journalists" to the punch. In this case, the group's sound was quickly classified as "new rave." We suppose early single "Atlantis To Interzone" did have an air raid siren in it, but other than that how can the hyperspeed punk bass lines and clattering, clanking rhythms be said to have anything in common with striped hoodies and glowsticks? We're not saying you can't dance to it, because you can! All we're saying is these spastic rock workouts aren't the tunes we associate with rave culture, so calling it "new rave" seems disingenuous at best and an annoyingly sloppy example of attempting to assign nomenclature at worst.

Why couldn't those mags have just called it what it is: kick ass rock and/or roll you can dance to.

Enter before Friday for your chance to win a Klaxons prize package after the jump!