I first heard the Britpop-electronica-whateva foursome Kasabian two weeks ago while driving home very late on a Sunday night and listening to Rodney on the ROQ (that’s “Mayor of the Sunset Strip” Rodney Bingenheimer’s midnight to 3 a.m. show on KROQ in Los Angeles, in case you didn’t know). I was half-asleep and slightly delirious from just having deboarded a plane, but Kasabian’s “Last Trip (In Flight)” woke me right up (which probably had lots to do with the big fuzzy guitars, psychedelic vocal effects, and dancey drumbeats). That track’s off of the band’s sophomore record Empire, of which You Can Take The Boy Outta Brooklyn says: “If the Chemical Brothers went back in time and produced T.Rex’s Electric Warrior, it would probably sound like this…it’s big-beat, electro-infused rock & roll that hits you like a gale-force wind, and I dig it.” Several member of the ThisNext crowd dig it as well, with Michael Williams noting “why they arent more well known is beyond me.” Cath says that the band’s music “absorbs me like the Stone Roses used to, but in the dark.” And Matt says that even though he “had their original album but didn’t really get into it,” a recent Brixton Academy changed his mind: “They truly rocked it in a kind of Rolling Stones way….I had never moshed before but have now…buy the new album, buy it buy it buy iiiiiiit.”