Killers corralling rarities for b-sides album

CLEVELAND (Billboard) - A wealth of material that U.S. fans most likely haven't heard will comprise the Killers' next release before the end of the year, according to the frontman of the Las Vegas band.

"In England we have a lot of B-sides that people in America would never know about because we don't have singles here," Brandon Flowers told Billboard.com.

"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 tentative song list includes "All the Pretty Faces" ("When You Were Young" B-side), movie soundtrack tunes "Shadowplay" (a Joy Division cover from Anton Corbijn's upcoming Ian Curtis biopic "Control") and "Move Away" ("Spider-Man 3"), as well as a cover of Mel Tillis' "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town."

Flowers did not rule out putting a new track or two on the album, which he hoped to have out by in time for Christmas.

"We're also going to do another Christmas single for the Red Campaign as well," Flowers said. "That's exciting. We've written 'Don't Shoot Me Santa,' which will hopefully be available on December 1. Last year we were able to raise over $100,000 from the one song ('A Great Big Sled'), and hopefully we'll be able to do it again."

Still on the road supporting its second album "Sam's Town," the Killers are touring the States again because "We feel like we didn't do enough touring in America on this album," Flowers said. The outfit, which begins its next leg September 4 at Red Rocks outside Denver, plans to hit Australia and South America before it ends its touring cycle in November.

But already there are new ideas floating around at soundchecks and in computers for the group's next studio effort, which is tentatively scheduled for a fall 2008 release.

Reuters/Billboard

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