The Knocks to bring electro-pop to M-Shop

The Knocks will bring their blend of electronic music and dance-pop to the Maintenance Shop on Thursday at 8 p.m.

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The Knocks will bring their blend of electronic music and dance-pop to the Maintenance Shop on Thursday at 8 p.m.

Parker Reed

New York City electronic duo The Knocks will bring their infectious electro-pop sound to Iowa State at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Maintenance Shop.

Tickets are $10 with a student ID and $15 for the public, with a $2 increase the day of the show. Tickets can be purchased at the M-Shop box office or online via Midwestix.

After being named by NME as one of the “20 hottest producers in music” in 2010, Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “Mr. JPatt” Patterson started garnering plenty of attention in the dance music scene.

The group’s Soundcloud page has gained almost 70,000 followers since its creation, catching the ears of plenty of music fans with remixes of tracks from The 1975, Passion Pit and Carly Rae Jepsen; not to mention singles featuring vocals from artists such as Fetty Wap and X Ambassadors.

The Knocks recently announced they will perform at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., in June and are set to release their debut album “55” on March 4, which will feature vocals from Walk the Moon’s Nicholas Petricca, among others.

Los Angeles’s dance-pop duo Cardiknox will open the show.

The duo, Lonnie Angle and Thomas Dutton, began their 2016 North American tour performing with Carly Rae Jepsen and selling out New York City’s Baby’s All Right.

Cardiknox’s upcoming album “Portrait” will be released March 16, featuring the singles “On My Way” and “Doors.”

For more information, visit the M-Shop website and the SUB website.