Death Cab to release single from Vampire movie OST
Death Cab For Cutie are to release a single - the first from the Official Sound Track to up coming Vampire flick New Moon, the sequel to last year's Twilight. »
The Killers News
Rough Trade and Topman get it together, business wise
Clothing giant Topman (Topshop! whatever...) have linked up with Indie record label and general music stuff giant Rough Trade, in a move that will see music being sold in in the stores, The Financial Times reports.»
Music fans petition music festivals
to be done later on. need lunch, etc...»
(Not) Louder Than Bombs: Reading sound levels
Organisers of this year's Reading Festival have defended sound levels at this year's event after complaints from fans.»
The Killers reveal new album details
Nevadan stadium-fillers The Killers have announced the title for their forthcoming third record, due later this year»
The God delusion: John Lennon, Killers songs used to promote creationism in new film
Songs by John Lennon and The Killers have been used to soundtrack a new film arguing that children should learn about the Christian theory of creationism in school science lessons»
Jay-Z to pull out of Glastonbury? Rapper 'still a headliner', claim organisers
Michael and Emily Eavis’ attempts to sell Glastonbury to the kids look set to backfire as rumours abound that Jay-Z - this morning confirmed to headline Wireless - is planning to pull out of the event»
No alarms, no surprises, no Radiohead: Reading / Leeds line-up announced
The Killers, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica are to headline this year’s Reading / Leeds shindig.»
The Killers to headline Reading and Leeds 2008
The Killers are the first act to be officially confirmed for this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals»
Chart round-up: the fag-ends of futility
This week's charts remind me of a cigarette butt dancing at the bottom of an escalator; I look upon it, and am filled with a sense of the futility of all existence, but, you know, it's poetic and that.»
Chart round-up: grief-stricken parents
Journey South crush all who oppose them at 107 with ‘What I Love About Home’. Who remembers Journey South then? I do, they haunt my dreams every night.»
Q nominations: new blood?
The nominations for this year's Q awards have been announced.»
Hove Festival 2007: final line-up confirmed
The DiS-associated Hove Festival – held in the picturesque surroundings of Tromoy, on the Norwegian coast, from June 26-30 – has confirmed its final, pretty dang good actually line-up...»
That Glasto line-up in full...
The full line-up for this year’s Glastonbury festival has been officially announced.
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Glastonbury line-up leaks
Festival-centric website FestivalNews.co.uk has reported the leaked line-up for this summer's Glastonbury Festival...»
Super her-O: Indie monsters unite for Spiderman soundtrack
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers and The Flaming Lips head a cast of contributors who have donated tracks to the official Spiderman 3 Soundtrack.»
T in the Park: homogenous '07 festival convoy heads to Scotland
The organisers of T in the Park have announced details of who will be playing when at this year's festival...»
Chart round-up: Really, who HASN'T heard Eyes Open yet?
Who’d have thought it? A good few weeks in and still ‘Grace Kelly’ is doing it for the people of Britain. Well, for the people of Britain who don’t like music, anyway...»
DiS watches the Brit Awards: our wine was nice and we drank the whole bottle
Last night DiS sat down at home, a bottle of M&S red and some spaghetti before us, and flicked our telly over to channel three. Russell Brand! Not talking about his ball bags! It could only mean one thing: we’d tuned into the first live Brit Awards since that whole Sam and Mick fiasco...»
The Killers and Snow Patrol to headline 2007 V Festival
Snow Patrol - the biggest-selling British band of 2006, official - are to headline the 2007 V Festival which will take place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on the 18th and 19th of August...»
Cos he doesn't look a thing like Jesus? Ghostface spurned by Killers
Ghostface Killah is licking his wounds after being ditched on by The Killers...»
The Killers revealed as V headliners
The Killers - a popular around these parts rock band from the American sicy of Las Vegas - have been announced as headliners at 2007's twin-site V Festival...»
License to Killers? Flowers and co. asked to pen Bond theme
Las Vegas' successful indie-rockers The Killers have apparently been approached to write the theme song for the next movie in the James Bond series...»
Chart round-up: it's a DiScussion, too. Wow!
So, indie-rock’s holiday in the sun, its honeymoon period following comeback second albums by Razorlight and The Killers, appears to be over: boybands are back, baby, in a big way...»
Have a Killers Christmas...
Las Vegas-raised and British-loved pop-rockin' combo The Killers are to release a Christmas song next month, via the online music superstore of iPod-related compatibility and stuff that is iTunes...»
Brandon and Borrell, sitting in a studio, stinking up a song...
Word on the inky tabloid page is that Brandon Flowers and Jonny Borrell are to collaborate - to duet! - on a cover of Dire Straits' 'Romeo And Juliet'...»
New OC compilation: actually pretty good!
The sixth in the well-selling series of compilation albums based on the television show The OC is out on December 4. In a neat twist to previous emo-filled editions, this album sees a variety of actually-very-good acts covering songs by other very-decent bands. Jeepers...»
MTV Europe Music Awards: winners in full
The veteran synth-rock trio took home the award for the Best Group category at the Justin Timberlake-hosted event in Copenhagen. Recently in the news for totally non-musical reasons sort Madonna was nominated in three categories - Best Pop Act, Best Female and Best Album - yet won nothing...»
DiS reads about the UK charts; rewords everything; calls it an 'article'; goes for lunch.
Finally, the UK album chart has witnessed a significant shifting of top-ten artists. There are no fewer than FIVE new entries in the top ten, four of which debut in the top five. Hooray!? Let’s wait and see…»
Howling Bells to support The Killers on the continent
DiS's favourite Aussie four-piece, of this year anyway, Howling Bells have been announced as the main support to the mega-massive (The) Killers on the latter act's European tour...»
Q Awards nomination announced: strap yourself in for a flood of mediocrity!
This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses...»
This week's DiS chart round-up is brought to you by the letters 'E', 'M', and the number '0'
So what’s shakin’ in the charts, eh? A whole lot of rock, that’s what. Yeah…»
We like Big Ones: the DiS chart round-up
This weeks’s chart round-up is brought to you by the sandwiches cheese and ham and egg and cress, a cup of milky tea and a deposit on a new flat to the tune of five-hundred big ones. Yes, copies of Aerosmith’s 1994 greatest hits compilation...»
"Thom needs to write pop songs," Observes Killer Brandon Flowers
The Killers' Brandon Flowers - seen this weekend gracing the cover of The Observer Magazine, posing like a gay cowboy - has said that Radiohead's Thom Yorke should ditch his electro-bleepin' songwriting and get back to penning pop songs...»
DiS's day-late chart update
Tens of thousands of apologies: we’re a day late with our weekly chart run-through, and we’ve no real excuses. The dog ate our homework; the boiler broke down and we had to wait for the gas man to arrive; our bus was hijacked by pre-teens tweaked off their tits on two-dozen bottles of Lucozade, demanding that they be driven to Alton Towers: none stick, really. So, sorry sorry and SORRY again. Okay? Okay…»
Killers tickets KO'ed in minutes...
Tickets for The Killers' November tour - click here for full dates - sold out this morning in just five minutes...»
The Observer's suggested autumn listening: Beck, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits...
DiS's Sunday broadsheet of choice - well, we all seem to buy it, anyway - The Observer has published a list of this autumn's must-hear albums. Here, we've listed them for you...»
The Killers announce full UK tour
Las Vegas-spawned pop-rockers The Killers, who release their second album Sam's Town at the start of October, are to tour the UK in November...»
Glastonbury 2007 to be "greatest show on Earth"
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, pictured, has told music magazine Uncut that next year's event - it took a break this year, of course - will be the "greatest show on Earth"...»
When You Were Wrong: Killers' Flowers retracts Panic! diss
Brandon Flowers, singer and sporter of nice 'tache in The Killers, has retracted his less-than-favourable comments about Panic! At The Disco after admitting he's never actually heard them... »
The Killers on new album: "There's a spiritual element"
The Killers, Vegas-spawned pop-rockers of no little success, have revealed more details about their forthcoming second album, the follow-up to their breakthrough debut Hot Fuss...»
Brandon Flowers on new Killers record: "...one of the best of the past 20 years"
Y'see, there's blowing one's own trumpet, and then there's this. One can only assume The Killers' Brandon Flowers prefers to purse his lips against a Harold Bishop-style tuba...»
Rock, like, rocks...
Axe-manglers and fret-fondlers rejoice! It seems that rock is, once again, the supreme force in contemporary music...»
Don't Fall Out, Boys - Killers dig their detractors
Fall Out Boy have reportedly been ripping into Las Vegas-bred synthtarts The Killers on their website. The response from the all-conquering Flowers and co.? "It's catchy."»
Over-Killers: more corporate Brandon
A veritable newsfelch from those sleek, hip, ultra-produced Vegas types.....»
Brandon Flowers: "In England, they don't move at all."
Brandon Flowers, he of The Killers fame, has been speaking to US mag Rolling Stone about audiences here and over there (over there being the US, you understand).»
The early spring (yet still snowing) festival round-up
Getting a little confused with all this festival to-ing and fro-ing? Not sure who's actually playing the festivals you want to go to? Are they confirmed or not? Are the Killers playing everywhere? let DiS offer you some firm hard facts...»
Killers confirmed for this year's Oxegen Festival
Alt-rock group The Killers, popular for their quite catchy yet lyrically-lacking single "Somebody Told Me," have been confirmed for this year's Oxegen Festival happening 9-10 July at the Punchestown Racecourse in Ireland.»
Killers told about single and gig
Vegas showboys, The Killers, have announced a special one-off London show for February next year.»
Killers to headline NME tour
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CHARTS! Killers go Top 10. Sam And Mark do not
Killers at 10! InMe not!»
Killing Mr Brightside Again
Stellastarr*'s touring buddies, The Killers, re-release 'Mr Brightside' on May 24th»
CHARTS! The Killers In Top 30 Shocker
Usher is No. 1...»
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Day & Age
Tranquilize
Sam's Town
Somebody Told Me
Hot Fuss
Mr. Brightside
Somebody Told Me
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