‘Dragons’ frontman Reynolds adding twins to family album
Dan Reynolds and his wife, Aja Volkman of the alt-rock band Nico Vega, have recently learned they are expecting twins. Obviously, they must select a pair of names.
And the title of the most recent album by Reynolds’ band, Imagine Dragons, is two words that fit naturally together.
“So, maybe we go with Smoke and Mirrors? Is that the suggestion?” Reynolds said with a laugh during a phone conversation Monday afternoon. “I don’t know. Would it really come to that?”
Maybe go with alternate spellings – like Smohk and Merrers?
“Hah! Well, we do know they won’t be identical twins, so it’ll be a lot more difficult than when we named Arrow,” Reynolds said, referring to the couple’s 4-year-old daughter. “We have a lot of time to think it over. Right now we’re just really excited.”
The band is boundlessly active, beginning work on a follow-up to “Smoke + Mirrors” as its annual “Slay Cancer With Dragons” Tyler Robinson Foundation gala approaches. The event is Friday night at Caesars Palace. The charity is a pediatric cancer treatment for Walton, usually wearing a tie-dye shirt, jeans and an uncommonly wide smile. He has estimated he saw the Grateful Dead 800 times, including the band’s dates in 1992 at Sam Boyd Stadium and on such international tour stops as the pyramids in Egypt in 1978. Look for him, too, at Bob Dylan’s shows at the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan on Oct. 13. DON’T BE ALARMED …
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