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COPYRIGHT 2004 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: DOUG ELFMAN, REVIEW-JOURNAL
Las Vegas has produced only three big acts in more than a decade of trying -- the rock band Slaughter, hip-hop's 702 and electronic music's Crystal Method.
But here come the Killers, a glam-rock, new wave band that has a single on the radio in England, an album called "Hot Fuss" coming out on Island Def Jam in June, and two music videos headed for rotation on MTV or MTV2.
The group has even earned a coveted, if early-afternoon, performance spot on Sunday's schedule at this year's premier American musical festival, Coachella, in Indio, Calif. (Coincidentally, Crystal Method is playing at Coachella a few hours after the Killers go on.)
"It is weird doing Coachella before we even have an album out, but it's also an honor," says Killers bass player Mark Stoermer.
The Killers are ambitious. They want to be world-famous.
"Yeah, somebody's gotta do it," says singer Brandon Flowers. "We love bands like the Strokes and things like that, but we want to take it -- not necessarily just mainstream -- but to a bigger level, even song-wise. I mean, the Strokes are great, but they don't have U2 quality, like stadium. And we're not...
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