Sam's Town
Much-maligned band follows the crossover hit Hot Fuss by switching its influences from the Cure and 1980s UK new wave to Bruce Springsteen and 1970s earnest U.S. classic rock.
The Peter Principle says that people tend to be promoted to their level of incompetence. The Killers are pop music's most recent victims of the truism. Of course, the band deserves a good chunk of blame for the sea of unreasonable responsibilities it's currently wading in (frontman Brandon Flowers did promise that Hot…
Note to <b>Brandon</b>; if you can’t even grow a proper beard, a shallow facade of an album isn’t going to help. Back to Plan A, please.
<p>Las Vegas's poppy Anglophiles have been reborn to run. Happily, learns <strong>Dan Martin</strong>, they have taken their songs with them.</p>