{"id":827,"date":"2004-12-09T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:29:11","slug":"the-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"The Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hot Fuss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/32767-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Point of origin shouldn\u2019t be an issue. That is, unless you\u2019re a Las Vegas-based band called the Killers. Led by vocalist and keyboardist Brandon Flowers, this quartet already has drawn comparisons to bands as far-reaching as\u00a0<em>Boy<\/em>-era U2, Duran Duran, Interpol and Stellastarr. Fortunately, the songs found within the Killers\u2019 debut album are as good as the NME magazine hype. From the infectious \u201cJenny Was A Friend Of Mine\u201d to the overly repetitive yet catchy chorus of \u201cSomebody Told Me,\u201d one can sense the urgency of a new band that has yet to unleash its full bag of tricks. Guitarist Dave Keuning knows how to play for the song and cautiously weaves a spell of reverb-laden soundscapes among the backdrop of an able rhythm section: drummer Ronnie Vannucci and bassist Mark Stoermer. Well done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Fuss Point of origin shouldn\u2019t be an issue. That is, unless you\u2019re a Las Vegas-based band called the Killers. Led by vocalist and keyboardist Brandon Flowers, this quartet already has drawn comparisons to bands as far-reaching as\u00a0Boy-era U2, Duran Duran, Interpol and Stellastarr. Fortunately, the songs found within the Killers\u2019 debut album are as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}