The new Killers album is really bad UPDATE: and Brandon Flowers is a twat

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THE KILLERS singer BRANDON FLOWERS believes RADIOHEAD frontman THOM YORKE is wasting his talent as a songwriter. The JENNY WAS A FRIEND OF MINE star wishes Yorke would stop writing experimental rock and return to the style of radio-friendly 1990s hits such as CREEP and KARMA POLICE. Flowers says, "He should feel grateful that he's been given the gift to write pop songs - which he needs to write again."

Dancing is fun

C'mon, people: if you want two of the most excellent, truly danceable records this year, shake your booty on over to Best Buy and purchase TV on the Radio's "Return to Cookie Mountain" and The Rapture's "Pieces of the People We Love" — both for $8 each to boot.

Also: The Album Leaf, Barenaked Ladies, The Black Keys, DJ Shadow, Junior Boys, Xiu Xiu and Yo La Tengo.

Geek Out/Freak Out of the Week

Colin Meloy + Ben Gibbard + Blur = musical trifecta of goodness



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Arctic Monkeys win the Mercury Prize — "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" is name the best British record of the past year. (link) Eh … I thought "hype" was called hype for a reason.