Killers announce ‘Wonderful Wonderful’
THIS all sounds, well, wonderful. Twice over. The Killers Wednesday cut loose with the title of their new album, “Wonderful Wonderful,” and posted a streaming sampling of the first single, “The Man” on their website.
The album is the Las Vegas band’s first since 2012’s “Battle Born.” The Killers have been busy recording at 11th Street Records in downtown Las Vegas. No release date has been set for “Wonderful Wonderful.”
The full version of the “The Man” premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show Wednesday. The band unveiled another song, “Run for Cover,” during an Atlantic City performance over the weekend. A hint that “The Man” would be the first single released was evident during a recent photo shoot in downtown featuring frontman Brandon Flowers wearing a satin jacket with those words stitched across the back. .
Bernstein’s combination
My pal and legendary boxing broadcaster Al Bernstein is back onstage Friday night at “The Kenny Davidsen Show” at Tuscany Suites’ T-spot Lounge. He’ll take the stage at a-bout (ha) 10 p.m. to perform tunes from the Great American Songbook and some contemporary covers.
Bernstein timed the show to coincide with Saturday’s Andre Ward-sergey Kovalev fight at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
During a recent interview for my KUNV 91.5-FM radio show, speaking of major matches, Bernstein talked of calling the action for the Aug. 26 Conor Mcgregor-floyd Mayweather bout at T-mobile Arena.
Bernstein, who calls major pay-per-view events for Showtime, says that describing the action will be comparatively easy. But the pre- and post-fight analysis presents a challenge.
“Honestly, you have to ask, ‘What does this mean to the legacy of these men?’ It’s a tricky question to answer,” says Bernstein, who spent more than two decades hosting “Top Rank Boxing” fight cards at ESPN before moving to Showtime in 2003.
Not funny
MGM Resorts Chairman Jim Murren was an interested, and reportedly unamused, audience member at Chris Rock’s early show at The Park Theater on Saturday. The performance was marred by repeated audio and video problems, prompting the superstar comedian to threaten to walk off stage and say of the venue, “This is the worst (expletive) place I’ve worked.”
MGM brass was also not laughing at Rock’s criticism of the Monte Carlo (blasting the hotel during the show and in social media for not providing room service after 2 a.m.), but the company and artist are doing business once more: Rock is set to play The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Maryland on Oct. 19.
End scene
Nearly a year after announcing the hit production “Absinthe” would relocate to The Cosmopolitan, the show’s original production partners released a statement saying it “will remain at Caesars Palace for the foreseeable future.”
Lawyers for Base Entertainment and Spiegelworld were to due in Clark County District Court again next Monday in the ongoing two-year saga of crisscrossing lawsuits. In the balance was the future of one of the Strip’s genuine success stories, a consistent sellout that celebrated its sixth anniversary at Caesars in April. No doubt the Gazillionaire, “Absinthe’s” smarmy, wealthy host, is happy to have stopped paying attorneys.
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