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NEW YORK, Oct.
31 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV VMA Award-winning, Grammy-nominated,
multi-platinum Island Records group the Killers are hard at work
collecting B-sides, rarities and one-off sides for a compilation
album to be released later this year, entitled SAWDUST, out
November 13th with lead track SHADOWPLAY at radio now! The band
hunkered down at a recording studio in New York's Hell's
Kitchen, completing the album with Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Lou Reed.
In England
alone, the Killers' Brandon Flowers told Billboard.com last
week, "We have a lot of B-sides that people in America would
never know about because we don't have singles here. So we have
about 15 of these songs that people have never heard, and we
wanted to stick them on something for people to get to have them
all together."
The website went
on to mention a handful of titles: "All the Pretty Faces" (which
was the B-side of "When You Were Young"); two movie soundtrack
tunes, "Shadowplay" (a Joy Division cover, from Control, Anton
Corbijn's biopic of Ian Curtis) and "Move Away" (from Spiderman
3); as well as a cover of Kenny Rogers & the First Edition's
"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (written by Mel Tillis).
The collection will also contain songs which weren't complete
for Sam's Town. The Killers recently went back into the studio
to finish the tracks. They will also record a second Christmas
single for the RED Campaign, "Don't Shoot Me Santa," expected
for December 1st release. It follows up last year's "A Great Big
Sled," which raised over $100,000 for the RED Campaign.
Meanwhile, the
Killers -- Brandon Flowers on vocals and keyboards, guitarist
David Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer, and drummer Ronnie
Vannucci -- continue to tour relentlessly in support of their
RIAA platinum second album SAM'S TOWN, which made a colossal
debut at #2 last October 2006, and spent 42 weeks on the
Billboard 200 chart. The album spun off two hit singles: "When
You Were Young," which rose to #1 on the Modern Rock chart, #14
on the Hot 100, Top 5 on the Dance side, and was nominated for
Best Rock Song and Best Short Form Music Video at this year's
49th annual Grammy Awards; and "Read My Mind," which hit #1 at
BDS Triple-A, Top 10 at Modern Rock and Alternative, and #1
Dance.
Web site:
http://www.thekillersmusic.com/
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