The Killers

By Lucas Jensen This is endemic of what I saw. The Killers, Bavarian Tradition, and a 2009 Grammy Nominees CD, all lying on top of Igor on Blu-Ray. I don't know why, but this is one of the saddest things I have ever seen. Turn away, Maura! Turn away! Howie Day: the loneliest featured CD ever.

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 Chris Molanphy The Climb" makes its high Hot 100 debut thanks largely to first-week sales at iTunes and other digital retailers of 166,000. According to Billboard, that's "the artist's best single-week sales sum," which is saying a lot, considering Cyrus has already scored a number of impressive debu...

By Chris Molanphy Hot Modern Rock Tracks 2. Incubus, "Love Hurts" (LW No. 1, 18 weeks) 3. Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire" (LW No. 3, 26 weeks) 4. Seether, "Breakdown" (LW No. 4, 22 weeks) 5. U2, "Get on Your Boots" (LW No. 6, 4 weeks) 8. Paramore, "Decode" (LW No. 7, 19 weeks) 9. The Killers, "Spaceman" (LW No. 12, 10 weeks)

By Dan Gibson It's still a little strange to see top 10 lists now, but if it's not too early for the onslaught of Christmas music to invade every public space I seem to go to, I suppose it's OK to start trying to wrap 2008 in a cute bow. Which brings us to what's apparently British music mag list day, with the onc...

By Dan Gibson The few remaining writers who make some money from writing record reviews must have been thrilled when The Killers' Day And Age got added to the release schedule, because the first few lines of their review were pretty much already written. You see, the Killers are from Las Vegas. Las Vegas h...

By Maura Johnston • "That this all manages to sound like the same band is down in huge part to [producer Stuart] Price, but The Killers’ work ethic has also seen them become musicians to match the value-for-money rock stars they always were. Day & Age has no place on indie dancefloors—that’s not the point...

By Chris Molanphy In the weeklong promotional push for her album release, B has been flogging both songs anyplace that will have her, including Saturday Night Live and the finale of MTV’s TRL. The difference is, “Boy” has been available as a digital single for weeks, while “Ladies” only became available th...

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...

By Chris Molanphy I’m not the first person to make the connection between Evanescence and Paramore, but the No. 34 Billboard Hot 100 debut of “Decode” from the chart-topping Twilight soundtrack makes it a bit more obvious. It’s Paramore’s highest-ever pop debut, and it finds them embracing the teen-goth s...

By Chris Molanphy You’d think that the tsunami of big CD releases about to hit retail in the next five weeks would mean lots of new song action. But the lead tracks from most of those albums—from the likes of Beyoncé, Nickelback, Kanye, Britney and American Idol’s two Davids—dropped weeks ago.

By Chris Molanphy The next week or two might be really interesting for Cook’s chart performance. As of this writing, on iTunes, “Light On” is down, relatively, once again. But that will likely all change in the last 24 hours of the tracking week, after Cook performs the song on a Saturday Night Live episode fea...

By Chris Molanphy It was also the last time former Mouseketeer, aspiring starlet and pop fetish object Britney Spears would top the premier U.S. singles chart—until this week, when Spears (as predicted) shoots from the chart’s bottom rungs to the penthouse with “Womanizer.” In the process, she ousts rap ki...

By Anthony Miccio Winners: Arcade Fire Nominees: Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Radiohead, Oasis Best Video Winner: "D.A.N.C.E." - Justice Nominees: "Fluorescent Adolescent" - Arctic Monkeys, "Long Road to Ruin" - Foo Fighters, "Tranquilize" - The Killers, "Lord Don't Slow Me Down" - Oasis

By Maura Johnston Best British Band: Arctic Monkeys Best International Band: The Killers Best Live Band: Muse Best Video: Arctic Monkeys, 'Teddy Picker' Best Live Event: Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals Best Dancefloor Filler: The Wombats 'Let's Dance to Joy Division'

By Maura Johnston 39. The Killers - Read My Mind 37. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs 35. Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere 28. Feist - 1234 26. Fergie - Clumsy 24. Daughtry - Home 22. Alicia Keys - No One 21. Pink - Who Knew 18. Ludacris f/Mary J. Blige - Runaway Love 13. The All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight

By Maura Johnston Influences on the upcoming crop of albums by American Idol alums, three of which will include Chris Richardson-penned songs: Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Carrie Underwood, Maroon 5, Evanescence, Pink, The Killers, U2, and--ugh!--Switchfoot. What the h-e-double-hockey-sticks, Chri...

By Maura Johnston 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 Brian Raftery For all their smart new ways, The Killers are still as flashy, unintentionally funny, and flagrantly affected as ever - and this time we wouldn't even pretend to have it any other way." [NME] Whatever the idiom and whomever they're borrowing from, the Killers know only one kind of song... Sam'...

By Maura Johnston 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...