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MTV
Apr 30 2010
Killers Singer Brandon Flowers Preps Solo Debut
Frontman's Flamingo is 'coming soon,' according to band's Web site.
By Gil Kaufman


Brandon Flowers
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images


You can take the man out of Las Vegas, but you can't take Las Vegas out of the man. Leave it to Killers singer Brandon Flowers to find a way to pay homage to his sucker's-paradise hometown in the announcement of his debut solo album.

After a week of Web teases, Flowers announced that he'd be stepping out on the band with a disc called Flamingo, which the band's official Web site says is "coming soon." The announcement, in the form of a broken-down neon sign that has the singer's name and a playing-card club lit up in red, is accompanied by a spare electronic track made up of pinging synth notes and some wordless falsetto vocals. The singer has also set up a parallel site that contains the same synth loop and glowing sign and that will presumably be a source of information about the disc.

The Killers teased the news of the Flowers album on Twitter earlier this week, telling their followers to check their official site for "big updates." While on tour in Australia earlier this year, the band canceled a number of dates following the death of Flowers' mother and said they would be taking an indefinite break from touring.

A spokesperson for the group could not be reached for further details about the album's release.

It appears Flowers isn't the only Killer taking a break, as drummer Ronnie Vannucci has signed up to perform in a supergroup called Mt. Desolation, featuring members of Keane, Mumford & Sons, Noah and the Whale and the Long Winters.

THE KILLERS:

http://www.thekillersmusic.com/


BRANDON FLOWERS:

http://www.brandonflowersmusic.com/


Interestingly, both sites PARALLEL each other, using the same graphics, and with BOTH sites marketing the solo effort by Flowers!

Pretty cool of the band to support his solo efforts like that!

Yea, that is pretty cool of them. Sometimes it's not always an ego trip that drives someone to do a solo project. I heard that with Tool, Maynard just likes to keep himself busier than the rest of the band. The other guys like their time off. So it's never really an ego thing that causes any kind of rift between Tool and Maynard. Works well for all parties involved. Solo projects can still be good advertising for the original band as well.