The Killers premiere new Christmas epic, plus Brandon Flowers in GQ.
Despite being on hiatus for more than a year (a performance at Lollapalooza Chile in April notwithstanding), The Killers know that it just isn’t the holidays without releasing their annual charity single. The Vegas-based band have reunited for the toe-tapping “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball,” which sounds like Bruce Springsteen recorded a country-western Christmas jingle.
Whether with the Killers, his simultaneously trashy and transcendent band that lights up like a casino shooting a beam into space, or as a solo artist, Brandon Flowers is arena rock’s sexiest walking contradiction—a Mormon with a hooker’s heart of gold who wants to show you heaven and Las Vegas. And in an era of singer-songwriters who bare their souls with self-conscious restraint, he’s a welcome blast of his old-school heroes: Freddy Mercury, U2, Springsteen, and Morrissey. And the Killers—a band that started out as synthy new wave revivalists and have grown into a stadium-crushing act—have evolved with him. Just Google “The Killers Royal Albert Hall” and you’ll see Flowers spinning and strutting like a peacock, with the epaulette-bound feathers to match. We chatted with the frontman about his stage demeanor, his band’s next project, and some of his, let’s say, curious fashion choices.
Read the interview here.
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