In times like these barely any collaborations are genuine surprises, more pleasant revelations. You can add another one to this list, too, as the much-in-the-news Tom Jones has said that he's going to work with the not-so-much-in-the-news-as-perhaps-they'd-like The Killers. Could be crap, could be quite good. We shall see.»
You may have noticed a little less news than usual this week. There is very good reason for this and that's because our news editor was off drinking Viking lager on a press junket in Iceland. Here's a little round-up of the bits of 'news' from the web over the past few days:»
What with all that singles chart hullabaloo going on with X-Factor vs. Rage vs. a few other notable entrants, we thought we'd bring you news of ANOTHER chart, but perhaps one we can relate to a little better this time - the last.fm yearly charts.»
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. »
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.»
to be done later on. need lunch, etc...»
Organisers of this year's Reading Festival have defended sound levels at this year's event after complaints from fans.»
Nevadan stadium-fillers The Killers have announced the title for their forthcoming third record, due later this year»
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»
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»
The Killers, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica are to headline this year’s Reading / Leeds shindig.»
The Killers are the first act to be officially confirmed for this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals»
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.»
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.»
The nominations for this year's Q awards have been announced.»
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...»
The full line-up for this year’s Glastonbury festival has been officially announced.
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Festival-centric website FestivalNews.co.uk has reported the leaked line-up for this summer's Glastonbury Festival...»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers and The Flaming Lips head a cast of contributors who have donated tracks to the official Spiderman 3 Soundtrack.»
The organisers of T in the Park have announced details of who will be playing when at this year's festival...»
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...»
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...»
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...»
Ghostface Killah is licking his wounds after being ditched on by The Killers...»
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...»
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...»
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...»
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...»
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'...»
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...»
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...»
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…»
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...»
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...»
So what’s shakin’ in the charts, eh? A whole lot of rock, that’s what. Yeah…»
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...»
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...»
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…»
Tickets for The Killers' November tour - click here for full dates - sold out this morning in just five minutes...»
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...»
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 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"...»
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, 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...»
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...»
Axe-manglers and fret-fondlers rejoice! It seems that rock is, once again, the supreme force in contemporary music...»
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."»
A veritable newsfelch from those sleek, hip, ultra-produced Vegas types.....»
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).»
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...»
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.»
Vegas showboys, The Killers, have announced a special one-off London show for February next year.»
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Killers at 10! InMe not!»
Stellastarr*'s touring buddies, The Killers, re-release 'Mr Brightside' on May 24th»
Usher is No. 1...»
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