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Brandon Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. gave fans an update on when they can expect new music during a recent Instagram Live Q&A. “I mean it’s finished, yeah. We’re basically in the mastering phase,” Flowers said about the record. “It will come out this year. We were hoping for an early summer release, but the vinyl manufacturing companies are all inundated with the artists who held their albums back because of COVID. Now they’re all trying to get their albums out and are m...

Brandon Flowers To Undergo Shoulder Surgery The Killers frontman has revealed he flew over the handlebars of his bike and tore his right shoulder, throwing the band’s May shows in jeopardy. The Killers are due to kick off their UK run on May 25 at Doncaster’s Keepmoat Stadium, but he admitted it’s “not looking great”. Brandon told fans on Instagram “I went over the handlebars. I have a torn right shoulder so I am going under the knife in a couple of weeks to get that taken care off....

The Killers Brandon Flowers CREDIT: Taylor Hill/Getty Images The Killers have said that the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Imploding The Mirage’ is “pretty much done”, after working on it throughout lockdown. The latest update on the band’s seventh album comes after they teased new music by sharing two brief snippets of a new song in a recent Instagram live broadcast. Speaking to Vampire Weekend‘s Ezra Koenig on Apple Music, frontman Brandon Flowers said: “It’s almost done and we’re g...

29 January 2021 Share with: Brandon Flowers and co have just dropped the deluxe edition of their 2020 album Imploding The Mirage’, which features the previously unheard outtake from their sessions making the record. The extended album also includes acoustic live cuts of the tracks ‘Blowback’ and ‘Caution’. Meanwhile, the Somebody Told Me hitmakers have been teasing fans about their new album and have reunited in the studio with guitarist Dave Keuning. The musician took some time away ...

Dave Keuning (l) and Brandon Flowers (r) perform live in 2016. CREDIT: Rob Loud/WireImage The Killers have shared footage of themselves in the studio recording music once again with guitarist Dave Keuning. Keuning has been less active with the band since 2017 when he began to pursue a solo career, which he said “reawakened the creative part of me”, and later released his debut album ‘Prismism‘ in 2019. He didn’t contribute to the band’s last album ‘Imploding The Mirage‘. Advert...

11. ‘Desperate Things’ “You know when people just say that? Every time someone makes a record they say that they have 50 songs and they’re going to release another record. We really are,” Flowers told NME after the completion of ‘Imploding The Mirage‘. “We’re going to release another one in about 10 months. We’ve already gone back into the studio with [Jonathon, producer] Rado and Shawn [Everett, producer]. We did a week in Northern California. “I had a lot of time on my h...

Courtesy of the artists I dont think its a coincidence that you, our listeners, chose a list of music filled with well-established artists this year. It was a year when the discovery of new music was tough. The absence of music festivals and live concerts, in general, kept me from discovering those remarkable opening acts, those second stage acts. Most of us had less listening time, whether it was the lack of a commute or the houses full of families. Thats not to say great music did...

NME’s Top 50 Albums of 2020 End-of-year list season continues with UK publication NME which has been online-only since 2018. Their Top 50 Albums of 2020 has most of the big records that are on most lists ( Fiona Apple, Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers, Run the Jewels, Bob Dylan, Dua Lipa), and the usual suspects for NME ( The Strokes, The Cribs, Fontaines DC, Porridge Radio, Working Mens Club), just maybe not in the order you might expect. Check out 50. Rico Nasty, ‘Nightmare Vacation’ 49...