Brandon Flowers

The Idolator Q & A: The Pet Shop Boys  NY You know Brandon Flowers from the Killers told us that when he comes home from tour, his wife plays that song, and one by U2 whose name I can't remember now. I like it, I think it's sort of beautiful, but at the time, seven years ago, it was a new Pet ...

By Maura Johnston I know a few people who are trying to start a "Sam's Town wasn't that bad" movement. I dunno, though. This song is actually pretty good, and "Read My Mind" has aged quite well over the past three years—but when you get to "The River Is Wild," the whole theory falls apart a bit.

By Maura Johnston After last night's Brit Awards, the Killers and Coldplay hustled over to the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire for a concert benefiting the international charity War Child, which released an all-covers comp featuring the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Franz Ferdinand earlier this week. Coldpl...

By Maura Johnston 8:22 p.m. Chris Martin responds to Brandon Flowers' epaulets with a piece of a costume from a dancing school's spring recital circa 1992. 10:20 p.m. It's kind of annoying that the Southern California bias means that the USC marching band always gets gigs like this one.

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By Dan Gibson Are there ersatz qualities to the Killers sound? Possibly. Did those qualities emanate from living in the same town as a replica of the Eiffel Tower? Probably not. I don't suspect Harvilla has been to Las Vegas, or if he has that he spent any amount of time away from the Strip, but the majority o...

By Maura Johnston ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The third album by Brandon Flowers' band of merrymen sounds like it was heavily influenced by sitting in a lot of traffic jams with a radio station tuned to Jack-FM, or whatever radio station in Las Vegas Plays What It Wants To: Album opener "Losing Touch" begins with f...

By Maura Johnston Last time out, Rihanna was taking her video inspirations from Trent Reznor, and this time, she's going down the modern-rock playlist and plumbing ideas from... The Killers? Maybe not, but I definitely feel like Brandon Flowers is going to pop up at any moment in the video for "Rehab," which m...

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By Lucas Jensen It's easy and fun! Now, we're gonna give you the Killers logo and challenge you to create your own using an image of your choice and the stained glass filter! It's your chance to flex that creative muscle and use cliched Photoshop effects! Here's the logo....get going:

By Maura Johnston The Killers took to the Saturday Night Live stage over the weekend, where they garnered the distinction of being the season's first musical act that wasn't completely torpedoed by whoever was working the show's sound. And I really enjoyed the pogo-inducing track "Spaceman," which brin...

By jharv 46 Rufus Wainwright 45 James Mercer (The Shins) 43 Morrissey 35 Brandon Flowers (The Killers) 32 Mark Ronson 28 Ted Leo 27 Ben Bridwell (Band Of Horses) 23 Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) 22 Kanye West 19 Craig Finn (The Hold Steady) 16 Dan Deacon 14 Ryan Adams 11 James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem)

By jharv As a fan of rock growing up, I go all the way back with a band called Yes, a band that came from a classical music background. I take you that far back to bring you to the Killers' "Sam's Town" (Island). I'd call this a CD and audio movie because when listening to it, you feel like you just entered a mo...

By Chris Molanphy When Routine Bites Hard, and Ambitions Are Low: The shocker for hipster-rock fans on the Hot 100 this week is the chart's top debut at No. 68: the Killers' cover of Joy Division's "Shadowplay." It instantly becomes the highest-charting Ian Curtis composition ever to grace the U.S. singles ch...

By Brian Raftery There are hundreds of pictures from this weekend's Glastonbury Festival on the wires, and the breakdown goes as follows: 90 percent of them are shots of Pete Doherty, and 7 percent are shots of Kate Moss staring at Pete Doherty. Of the remaining images, our favorites include Paul Weller's...

By mjohnston THE GOOD: The only magazine willing to back up its "My Chemical Romance are the best talk" with top-10 placement; Welcome to the Black Parade hit No. 5, behind TV On The Radio, The Hold Steady, the Arctic Monkeys, and Ghostface. THE SURPRISE: Double-dip cover boy Brandon Flowers is probably...

By Brian Raftery Another day, another head-slapping Brandon Flowers interview:This one's from the December isssue of Spin, which features the band on the cover, dressed like cowboy hobo bozos (that dove's departing quote, by the way, was "SQWAK! LET ME LEAVE PLEASE! SQWAK! "DEVIL'S WATER IS NOT SO SWE...

By Brian Raftery Not a terrible song, mind you, but one that was clearly around for years until a-ha realized that they could simply slap on the irrelevant title and sell it to Albert Broccoli (a realization that was no doubt accompanied by an actual exclamation of "A ha!"). Also noteworthy for its emascula...

By mjohnston Mustachioed Killers singer Brandon Flowers is starting to get frustrated about the tepid critical response to Sam's Town, and apparently he's been consulting mediums as a way to deal: "The sky used to be the limit, and it's not anymore. It's about 200 feet, and beyond that people think you...

By mjohnston Somewhere between the monster success of "Mr. Brightside" and the preparation of their second album, Sam's Town, the Vegas rock act The Killers decided to get Serious. They ditched their glitz for a "Western" look apparently inspired by mid-period Depeche Mode, and lead singer Brandon F...

By Brian Raftery There's very little Killers-bashing to be found at Idolator's island-resort HQ: Hot Fuss was a great record, and even though Brandon Flowers has some goofily grandiose ambitions at times (such as when he employed an oversized gospel choir for the band's 2004 Coachella set), we had high...