News // The Killers webcast for American Express Unstage series

The Killers are making a live webcast on youtube with Werner Herzog.

The Killers' 2012 Battle Born promo

The webcast,  part of the American Express Unstaged series, is going to happen at New York's Paradise Theater in the Bronx around 7pm (EST), on September 18th - check the related hours with your countries here.

Among several surprises and unique techonologies, to place some cameras to Ronnie Vannucci as well as to crowd surfing members as part of this big production.

To Rolling Stone, Mark Stoermer said the director has planned some unique ideas "He has ideas for someone crowd-surfing with a camera on. He's gonna put cameras on Ronnie while he's playing drums."
Remember the webcast is going to stream directly on the band's youtube - youtube.com/Thekillersvevo.

The Killers, Runaways

The Killers are an American rock band, known for hits like Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me, When You Were Young, Human or Spaceman.

The band was created in 2001 and the members are composed by Brandon Flowers (vocals and keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitars and backing vocals), Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums and percussion) and Mark Stoermer (bass guitar and backing vocals).
On live performances, and due to the amount of instruments they record on studio creating their incredibly amazing and rich music background sounds, they count with Rob Whited (percussion and backing vocals), Jake Blanton (guitars, keyboards and backing vocals) and Ted Sablay (guitars and keyboards).

So far, they have released three studio albums: Hot Fuss (2004), Sam's Town (2006) and Day & Age (2008). A forth album is set to be released next September 2012 with the name Battle Born.

Battle Born is a phrase that appears on the state flag of Nevada, from where the band is from.
There are some songs that were confirmed to be on the record's tracklist: Heart of a Girl, Flesh and Bone, Carry Me Home and the first confirmed single Runaways.

Runaways has a clear Bruce Springsteen influence, as mentioned on reviews by NME or Rolling Stone Magazine. This song is really the opposite of dancy songs like Human or Spaceman from their previous album but it's without any question a Killers song.
It's totally rock, full of darkness but a bit of light somewhere that brings us hope. With a strong story and followed by really well played instruments that really characterizes the band, it's good to accomplish "The Killers are back!"
Nevertheless, it's a powerful single, which brings some huge excitement to the rest of Battle Born.

"And I came home after they go to sleep
Like a stumbling ghost, I haunt this house
There's a picture of us on our wedding day
I recognize the proof but I can't settle in these walls"

News // The Killers release new album in 2012

The Killers are already preparing their forth album to be released on 2012.

Brandon Flowers spoke with Zane Lowe from BBC1 where Flowers confirmed the band is back together and preparing their new record.

On the telephone, Flowers told the Killers have already started to write new songs including one named Battleborn, which probably will be part of the album.

After releasing his solo work - Flamingo - The Killers' singer is really excited to be with the band again and promised very good news "We don't want to make a Hot Fuss 2, or Sam's Town 2 or Day & Age 2. (...) Maybe we will take all that stuff, and the best of all of them, and really do what we know how to do."

He also said on the interview that Brendan O'Brien and Steve Lillywhite were the producers that have work with The Killers so far.

The album has no title and has no releasing date yet, with Brandon Flowers confirming the album is going to be released on this year that's starting.

Listen Brandon Flowers' interview to BBC 1:

News // The Killers continue tradition and release Christmas song

As usual since a few years, the north-american band The Killers have now shared this year's Christmas song.

The band composed by Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. have a tradition since 2006 of releasing a Christmas song every year starting that year with A Great Big Sled.
This week, The Killers revealed the song The Cowboy's Christmas Ball was going to be 2011 Killers Christmas song.

All the funds gain with this song will be deliver to an association of fighting against AIDS in Africa, most surely (RED) read about it here.

With songs with an almost non-traditional Christmas song spirit, the songs include

A Great Big Sled (2006)

Don't Shoot Me Santa (2007)

Joseph, Better You Than Me (2008)

¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe! (2009)

Boots (2010)

News // the Killers win MTV Poll for Best VMA Rock Performance

Las Vegas' band The Killers with Brandon Flowers, Ronnie Vannuci, Mark Stoermer and Dave Keuning, used Twitter to thank their fans the voting that happened on mtv website for Best VMA Rock Performance which would be announced on MTV VMA Awards, which happened last sunday.

Check the pool results right here.

The Killers won with their performance in 2005 of Mr. Brightside, beating bands like Metallica, Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Muse.

The band used twitter to thank the fans.

"Just found out about the VMA win.. Nobody has fans like you guys. Nobody! Thank you for hangin' with us. Lucky us" by thekillers