The Killers Eye November Release for Third Album

The Killers have reportedly been holed in their Las Vegas studio, working hard to ensure their third album is released by November, sources close to the band's label Island Records tell MTV.com. For their third, still-untitled album (the follow-up to 2006's Sam's Town), the band is working with producer Stuart Price, who previously remixed the group's "Mr. Brightside" and played a large part in crafting Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor. While exact song titles have been kept under wraps, frontman Brandon Flowers hinted at one Aladdin Sane-esque track entitled "Tidal Wave."

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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