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New video, released by The Killers! The Vegas rockers debuted the song live back in July in Asheville, N.C., and the footage in this tour video was shot by director Giorgio Testi during recent dates overseas in Europe.
It captures Brandon Flowers and Company performing under some fancy light shows in front of massive festival-sized crowds, hanging out backstage and generally having a good time being on the road. Plenty of smiles to go around here for everybody. The Killers are currently across the pond on a fall 2012 U.K. tour, which runs through a Nov. 16-17 stand at London’s O2 Arena. WATCH
http://diffuser.fm/the-killers-miss-atomic-bomb-video/
With arena-rock choruses and anthems as flashy as his hometown of Las Vegas, Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has fashioned himself to be something of a glam-pop Bruce Springsteen. In that way, ‘Battle Born,’ the first we’ve heard from the band in four years, is an epically masculine, unapologetically dramatic, thoroughly enjoyable listen — if you can get over the fact that it’s really, really cheesy.
When it gets big, it gets really big. Take, for instance, the shotgun-wedding power ballad ‘THE RUNAWAYS’. Lines are “I got a tendency to slip when the nights get wild,” or the John Mellancamp camp of the country-infused ‘From Here On Out,’ which includes the words “your quarterback smile and crocodile tears.”
And when it gets soft, it gets really soft. The balladeering is off the charts, most notably on ‘Heart of a Girl,’ a comparatively minimalist composition that’s all bass lines, soft plucks and shakers. Again, Flowers, reminisces about romances past, and this time, he’s arguably at his most charming: “She wrote her number down and gave it to me/they had to scrape me off the floor.”
What, then, are the themes of ‘Battle Born?’ It’s about going for it. It’s about not stopping now. It’s about love. It’s about life. It’s about death. It’s about America.
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http://diffuser.fm/the-killers-battle-born/
The Killers have unleashed their music video for single “Runaways,” a combo of the abstract and performance video that leave vapor trails of fist-pumping, tear-streaming rock. In Vegas, baby!
Everybody looks good, refreshed.
They should be. It’s been four years since the band’s last “Day & Age,” and with the new album “Battle Born” due on September 18, it will have been almost exactly two years since Brandon Flowers dropped his solo debut “Flamingo”.
WATCH IT HERE
http://www.hitfix.com/immaculate-noise/the-killers-runaways-music-video-is-bound-to-the-heavens-watch
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