The Killers
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The Killers/Menlo Park/The Prosaics: Don Hill's, New York City
Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 23 October 2003
IT'S 10:15PM, the venue is already behind schedule with the showcase, and nobody cares. Instead, more and more bodies cram their way into downtown venue ...
The Killers: Hot Fuss (Lizard King)
Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, July 2004
MANY PERFORMERS see out their careers with a lucrative stint in Las Vegas but few actually hail from the city beyond the pleasure palace walls. ...
The Killers: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool ****
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 10 September 2006
YOU CAN ALMOST imagine the delight when some bright spark suggested the Killers launch their big comeback in the "Vegas of the North", and the ...
A Wrock Riter's Guilty Pleasure: The Killers
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2006
IN LIMEYLAND we're obsessed with Guilty Pleasures, thanks not least to the doughty efforts of DJ Sean Rowley, who revels on his radio show in ...
Review by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 3 October 2006
MORE THAN A FEW CRITICS have knocked The Killers for recording a soupy version of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run', but they haven't suggested which ...
Saints of Sin City: The Killers
Interview by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 20 October 2006
OVER THE COURSE of 50 years, we have borne witness to the on-going development of popular music, and many diverse faiths and cultures from all ...
The Brits 2007: Live and Everything
Report by Jude Rogers, Guardian Unlimited, 14 February 2007
LADIES AND gentlemen! Boys and girls! Pop spods and car crash-telly fans! The hour is at hand! Welcome, one and all, to the Brits blog! ...
The Killers: MEN Arena, Manchester
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 20 February 2007
BRINGING A dash of Las Vegas flash to the future home of Britain's first supercasino, the Killers crowned last week's Brit Awards win for best ...
The Q Interview: Brandon Flowers: "I refuse to say, Fuck Bush."
Interview by William Shaw, Q, March 2007
The Killers man: practising Mormon, condom salesman, insists upon washing his own underpants ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, J Mag, November 2008
BRANDON FLOWERS – sweet, sometimes pensive and sometimes giggly, not much for eye contact and perhaps bearing the strain of slight shyness that can be ...
The Killers: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 5 November 2008
THE KILLERS have sold 12m albums worldwide yet still find themselves at a crossroads. ...
Razorlight: Slipway Fires (Mercury); The Killers: Day And Age (Mercury)
Review by Jude Rogers, The Word, December 2008
Young Men In A Hurry: What's the verdict on those tricky third albums from Razorlight and the Killers? It's all a bit forced. ...
The Killers: Day & Age (Vertigo) ***
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, December 2008
For his latest role, rock's great drama queen Brandon Flowers wisely packs away the facial hair and sombre poses of Sam's Town and pulls on ...
Dave Gahan meets Brandon Flowers
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Working Class, 2009
RECENTLY, while immersed in the eerie drug-sex double entendre of 'Never Let Me Down Again', a friend commented to me, "What's with Depeche Mode? They ...
The Killers: Brandon Flowers is Blooming
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 13 February 2009
IT IS FIVE HOURS before showtime and the Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers, kicking back in his South Carolina hotel room, is in relaxed, confident and ...
Profile and Interview by Laura Barton, Q, March 2009
"DAD! DID YA hear that? Double platinum!" Ronnie Vannucci hollers over the evening clatter of a Seattle restaurant. Several tables away, Vannucci Snr. raises his ...
The Killers: Air Canada Center, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 16 May 2013
THE KILLERS were always a band that I kept in the back of my mind. I have a few of their records and I liked ...
The Killers: Wonderful Wonderful
Review by Alfred Soto, Spin, 2 October 2017
AT LAST I KNOW: George Herbert is Brandon Flowers' Rosetta Stone. Writing from the point of view of an object of sacramental importance or as ...
Reading Festival: from Billie Eilish to Rina Sawayama, the kick-ass Barbies outshine the dull Kens
Review by Stephen Dalton, The Evening Standard, 28 August 2023
It still has its gender imbalance issues but the women on the bill this year were the ones not to miss. ...
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