Give Me A Moment

The Killers announced a new greatest hits package called Direct Hits. Two new tunes will be featured including a collaboration with M83 called Shot At The Night, which musically sounds exactly like what you'd expect from these two neo-New Wavers.



As retro and anthemic both artists are, I'd say they played it safe here. Bonus new tunes on greatest hits compilations tend to be rehashed demos that never found a home on a previous release so I'm underwhelmed but not surprised. It certainly sounds like a nearly unfinished outtake from their most recent album Battle Born, which has been one of my guilty pleasures for most of the year.

Direct Hits is out November 11 just in time for the holidays. More info here.

Official Site | iTunes

It's Coming Now

Rolling Stone featured M83 as a "breaking artist" this past week. It's probably a little past due, but so is my interest in him. We Own the Sky is worth the entire download of Saturdays = Youth, mostly because it reminds me of my youth.

Just awesome - flourishes of 80s cheeze & 90s shoegaze make it perfectly 00s.

Everybody Look Down

Killers are waging a killer tour with M83. Killer. North American dates below:

01-16 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre *
01-17 Denver, CO - Magness Arena *
01-19 Minneapolis, MN - Northrop Auditorium *
01-20 Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion *
01-22 Ypsilanti, MI - EMU Convocation Center *
01-23 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre *
01-25 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden *
01-26 Boston, MA - Agganis Arena *
01-28 Fairfax, VA - Patriot Center at George Mason University *
01-29 North Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues *
01-30 Atlanta, GA - Atlanta Civic Center *
01-31 Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry House *
02-02 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater *
02-03 Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center *
02-04 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie *
04-16 Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
04-17 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
04-19 San Jose, CA - San Jose Event Center
04-22 Seattle, WA - Wamu Theatre at Qwest Field Events Center
04-23 Victoria, British Columbia - Save on Foods Memorial Centre
04-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - UBC Thunderbird Arena
04-26 Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome
04-27 Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place
04-30 Milwaukee, WI - The Eagles Club
05-01 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre
05-02 Bonner Springs, KS - Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone
05-04 St. Louis, MO - Fox Theatre
05-05 Columbus, OH - Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
05-06 Cleveland, OH - Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre at Tower City
05-08 Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
05-09 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena * with M83

Been enjoying Spaceman on XM lately. I really need to pick up Day & Age. Need to pick up M83 too - listen to We Own the Sky. Talk about killer!