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Klaxon Mutant Allstars
The Gr8st Hits, Vol. 1
Released: May 4, 2026
About
When the Klaxon Mutant Allstars crash-landed on Earth in the 1980s, they were too busy playing music to bother recording it. Their Earth colleagues — Tears for Fears, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder — kindly stepped in with their own distantly related renditions. An entire decade of hits. You’re welcome.
Now returning in 2026, the band has finally brought those songs home to reunite with their beloved cousins on The Gr8st Hits, Vol. 1. This is not a cover album. As it turns out, everyone on Earth in the 1980s was covering them.
Born out of a Wednesday night residency at San Francisco’s Amnesia bar, the cosmic time traveling Klaxons deliver something genuinely rare: a band with serious jazz pedigree, a killer sense of humor, and music that sounds like nothing else on the planet. Or off it.
Now returning in 2026, the band has finally brought those songs home to reunite with their beloved cousins on The Gr8st Hits, Vol. 1. This is not a cover album. As it turns out, everyone on Earth in the 1980s was covering them.
Born out of a Wednesday night residency at San Francisco’s Amnesia bar, the cosmic time traveling Klaxons deliver something genuinely rare: a band with serious jazz pedigree, a killer sense of humor, and music that sounds like nothing else on the planet. Or off it.
36th Annual Jazz Station Awards · 2014
#5 Instrumental Group
Klaxon Mutant Allstars
“Robot Invasion”
“Robot Invasion”
Jazz Station Awards
#7 Trumpet
Henry Hung
“Robot Invasion”
“Robot Invasion”
Jazz Station Awards
#8 Keyboards
Colin Hogan
“Robot Invasion”
“Robot Invasion”
Jazz Station Awards
Press
“Represents the voracious appetite of the Bay Area jazz scene, where any and all sounds are fair game for sonic repurposing.”
— East Bay Express
“A bevy of the region’s most inventive improvisers whose tunes careen in unpredictable directions.”
— Alameda Magazine
“Clever writing and crack musicianship — a casual, warm stage presence and a real sense of fun.”
— Memory Select
“An acclaimed ensemble with a cult following — featuring the region’s most in-demand musicians.”
— East Bay Monthly
The Band
Henry Hung
Trumpet · Grammy Award Winner
Stanley Clarke, Jimmy Cobb, Poncho Sanchez, Pacific Mambo Orchestra
Kasey Knudsen
Saxophone
Charlie Hunter, tUnE-yArDs, Fred Frith
Eric Garland
Drums
Will Bernard, Donovan, Mads Tolling
Colin Hogan
Keys
Peter Erskine, Too $hort, Mads Tolling
Jonathan Herrera
Bass
Stanley Jordan, Zigaboo Modeliste, Cathedrals
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