Stereogum — As they say: “LOL.” Surfing The Void is out 8/23 via Polydor. Here’s its first single, “Flashover,” for which Klaxons’ sense of humor seems to have been lost to “the overmind”: more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Klaxons have announced that their new album is titled Surfing The Void. It’s the band’s 2nd album, and their first one since their excellent 2007 debut, Myths of the Near Future. It will be released on August 24th via Interscope/Downtown. Our fir... more info

DrownedInSound — It's been long-awaited but Nu-Rave once-prodigies Klaxons have confirmed the name of their second record, which has been quitr SOME years in the making. It's called Surfing The Void. Anticlimax? Not quite. But wait 'til you hear the music, you know? ... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — The London band's follow-up to their Mercury Prize winning debut is called Surfing The Void and will be released in August. more info

NME — 'Surfing The Void' set for August 23 release more info

The Music Fix — Portland's Blitzen Trapper seek and destroy. more info

Stereogum — Shaggy Portland folk-rock sextet Blitzen Trapper’s fifth full-length Destroyer Of The Void, “a truly original American soundtrack,” is out next week (6/8) via Sub Pop. Per usual, it mixes psychedelia, pretty harmonies, a ’60s/’70s vibe, som... more info

Pasta Primavera — Its been 3 years since the Klaxons released their breakthrough album Myths Of The Near Future.  3 years is a good while, leaving some big expectations/anticipation for the follow up Surfing The Void.  This past week they gave us all a little taste ... more info

Stereogum — Klaxons’ second album, following 2007’s much-ballyhooed Myths Of The Near Future, is tentatively titled Surfing The Void. It was produced by Korn/Slipknot/Limp Bizkit/Sepultura/Machine Head/At the Drive-In/Blood Brothers tweaker Ross Robinson who... more info

The Playlist — We have been woefully remiss in filing my SXSW reports, but this is in part due to the psychic trauma inflicted by Gaspar Noe's extraordinary "Enter The Void," his nearly three hour phantasmagoric assault on the senses and the psyche. We're still rec... more info