{"id":973547,"date":"2019-11-15T04:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913133"},"modified":"2019-11-15T04:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:06:57","slug":"the-killers-announce-new-album-imploding-the-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-killers-announce-new-album-imploding-the-mirage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Killers Announce New Album \u2018Imploding the Mirage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/shutterstock_editorial_10324251dm.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-killers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-killers\" data-tag=\"the-killers\">The Killers<\/a> will release a new album, <em>Imploding the Mirage<\/em>, in the spring of 2020. The band revealed the news on Twitter along with the announcement of a 2020 U.K. and Ireland tour in support of the release, noting \u201cfuture musical teasing imminent.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4809160305344\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing IMPLODING THE MIRAGE. Preorder the album to get access to pre-sale tickets for our UK &amp; Ireland Tour at the link below. Future musical teasing imminent.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZnGcnlw1g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/xZnGcnlw1g<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1wWua3XC7h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1wWua3XC7h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Killers (@thekillers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekillers\/status\/1195258184392331264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Imploding the Mirage<\/em> will follow the Las Vegas group\u2019s 2017 album <em>Wonderful Wonderful<\/em>. Earlier this year the band released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-killers-new-song-land-of-the-free-778697\/\">\u201cLand of the Free,\u201d<\/a> a song in response to President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, institutional racism and the country\u2019s failure to introduce substantial gun control reform. It\u2019s unclear if the track will be included on the new album, which has yet to get an official tracklist or specific release date, although the band teased a list of potential songs on Instagram in October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3YGbvblmP-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-6.2121212121212\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been in Utah doing it,\u201d Flowers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/music-interviews\/the-killers-brandon-flowers-exclusively-talks-to-us-about-their-next-album-and-unfinished-business-at-glastonbury-2470416\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>NME<\/em><\/a> earlier this year of the new album. \u201cThat\u2019s where I fell in love with music for the first time; so it\u2019s interesting to be there again and hear some of that music with the geography matching the sensation. Some of that stuff is starting to resurface and a lot of that had to do with synthesizer music. It\u2019s always been part of our DNA but it\u2019s definitely creeping up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spring tour will take place next May and June, with stops in London, Manchester and Dublin. Blossoms, Sam Fender and Manic Street Preachers will open various dates on the tour. Fans who <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.virginemi.com\/thekillers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">preorder the album<\/a> by November 19th at 4 p.m. will have early access to pre-sale tickets to the tour.<\/p>\n<h4>The Killers 2020 Tour Dates:<\/h4>\n<p>May 28, 2020 Falkirk, Scotland \u2013 The Falkirk Stadium<br \/>May 30, 2020 Manchester, England \u2013 Emirates Old Trafford<br \/>June 1, 2020 Norwich, England \u2013 Carrow Road Stadium<br \/>June 3, 2020 Southampton, England \u2013 St Mary\u2019s Stadium<br \/>June 6, 2020 London, England \u2013 Emirates Stadium<br \/>June 9, 2020 Bristol, England \u2013 Ashton Gate Stadium<br \/>June 11, 2020 Coventry, England \u2013 Ricoh Stadium<br \/>June 13, 2020 Middlesbrough, England \u2013 Riverside Stadium<br \/>June 16, 2020 Dublin, Ireland \u2013 Malahide Castle<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-killers-new-album-imploding-the-mirage-913133\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Killers will release a new album, Imploding the Mirage, in the spring of 2020. The band revealed the news on Twitter along with the announcement of a 2020 U.K. and Ireland tour in support of the release, noting \u201cfuture musical teasing imminent.\u201d Introducing IMPLODING THE MIRAGE. Preorder the album to get access to pre-sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:33:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}