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The Bravery hit back at recent suggestions from The Killers’ Brandon Flowers that the New Yorkers have been riding on his band’s coattails.
Flowers recently said in an interview: “Look at a band like The Bravery. They’re signed because we’re a band,” but speaking to San Francisco radio station Live 105, The Bravery have dismissed his claims.
Talking about Flowers, singer Sam Endicott said, “The poor little guy, he’s very scared. I mean I feel bad talking bad about him because it’s like hitting a girl. It’s like picking on a kid in a wheelchair because he has no personality and no sense of humor at all. So what can you say to that?”
Guitarist Michael Zacharin added: “If you’ve seen them live … they’re incredibly boring. They look like wax figures.”
The Bravery also said they had finished their debut album before they’d even heard of The Killers, so Flowers’ claims were bogus, before going on to take a shot a Killer Mark Stoermer.
“There’s the one guy whose like nine feet tall. He looks like a little Dutch girl with a beard,” said Endicott of the bassist, “but like a nine foot tall Dutch girl like a mutant radioactive.”
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Queen went ahead with a show in Rome on April 4, despite pleas from city officials to postpone the performance out of respect for the pope.
Surviving members of the classic rockers are currently on tour with former Free singer Paul Rodgers on vocals, and had a show scheduled at Rome Palalottomatica for the 4th.
But following the death of Pope John Paul II over the weekend, Guido Bertolaso, the government-appointed commissioner for the city’s funeral arrangements said that to go ahead with the gig would be “in very bad taste right now,” reports the BBC.
He continued: “I think that in this moment of pain and prayer, a concert should not be held in our capital – with all due respect to what others believe.”
However, the band chose to go ahead with the concert. A statement read: “After consultation with local authorities, promoter Barley Arts decided the concert should go ahead. [The] band opened [the] concert with a minute of silence.”
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System of a Down have revealed details of their ambitious new albums.
“Mezmerize/Hypnotize” will be released in two installments over six months, with the first half, “Mezmerize,” out on May 16 through American Recordings-Columbia.
Both albums were produced by Rick Rubin along with guitarist Daron Malkian, who explained the reasons behind putting out a double set: “When we started recording, we were focused on making every song the best it could be, to really give a thousand percent to every single track.
“Doing a two-album set never entered into our thought process. But when we looked at all the songs we had and arbitrarily tried to choose ‘the best’ 14 for one album, we realized that they all connected with each other. We didn’t chase this idea, it chased us.”
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Ryan Adams has confirmed the track listing for his first album of 2005.
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals will release a double album “Cold Roses” on May 3, ahead of full-length solo releases from Adams later this year.
The Cardinals are credited as guitarists JP Bowersock and Cindy Cashdollar, bassist Catherine Popper and drummer Brad Pemberton.
As previously reported, Adams is set to tour North America at the end of this month before releasing albums “Jacksonville” and “29″ later this year.
