The Killers perform during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 9, 2024. Courtesy Chris Phelps. SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Twain once said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was at The Killers concert on a summer night in San Francisco.” OK, maybe…

Tyler, The Creator performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021. Rapper Tyler, The Creator, Las Vegas rock stalwarts  The Killers and alt-country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson top the marquee for the 2024 edition of San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival. The event will return to Golden…

The Killers perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 23, 2022. Photos courtesy Rob Loud/The Killers. SAN FRANCISCO — At this point for Brandon Flowers and his bandmates in the Killers, “imploding the Mirage” may very well refer to letting loose after two years of lockdowns, fear…

Twenty One Pilots perform during radio station Live 105’s Not So Silent Night at SAP Center in San Jose on Dec. 7, 2019. Merry Christmas! I guess this means I have to write another Christmas music column. As I’ve expressed every year I’ve had a column, I hate Christmas…

The best albums of 2021 include Jackson Browne, J Balvin, Cheekface, Jame Blake, Tori Amos, Billy Gibbons, IDLES, Paul Weller, Jon Batiste, Rostam, The Killers and Between the Buried and Me. Welcome back to RIFF’s top album countdown! If you’re here just to complain about the order or lack…

“Pressure Machine” by The Killers. If you’re a millennial entering your 30s, stumbling upon facts that make you feel old is likely becoming a regular occurrence. Here’s a fun one: The Killers recently celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band.  Pressure Machine The Killers Island, Aug. 13 7/10 Rapidly…

Among the shows we most regret were canceled or postponed: BTS, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Killers, Mew, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, BottleRock Napa Valley, Bad Religion, Rage Against the Machine, My Chemical Romance, Bob Dylan, Outside Lands, Kraftwerk, Supergrass, Roger Waters, Tame Impala, The Airborne Toxic…

Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story “The Killers” is an understated, subtle and tense tale of two hitmen in a diner. Most of the story’s simmering emotion is buried in lines of clipped dialog coming from men with unreadable faces. Imploding the Mirage, the new album from The Killers, is…

Dave Keuning performs at The Independent in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer. SAN FRANCISCO — With the Killers, Dave Keuning helped build a forward-looking yet nostalgic sound. The band’s influences rested somewhere between new wave and roots rock. With his new solo project, Keuning takes…

Dave Keuning The Killers are back in the studio, but the band’s founding guitarist, Dave Keuning, is at home in San Diego. He’s contributing ideas to his band by email, just released his debut solo record, Prismism, and will hit the road for a couple of weeks. Dave Keuning…