{"id":2506990,"date":"2026-07-18T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2506990"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:51:24","slug":"brandon-flowers-sings-one-for-the-croupiers-on-new-song-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brandon-flowers-sings-one-for-the-croupiers-on-new-song-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Flowers Sings One for the Croupiers on New Song \u2018Paradise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Close to a month since announcing his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/the-killers-brandon-flowers-country-solo-album-thrasher-1235582401\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new solo country record<\/a>, Killers frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brandon-flowers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Flowers<\/a> is releasing the single, \u201cParadise.\u201d The song will appear on <em>Thrasher<\/em>, due out Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p>On the song, Flowers knows when to hold \u2019em and fold \u2019em as he spits out gambling puns over galloping banjo, keening steel guitar, and country-honkin\u2019 harmonica. The song is ostensibly about his extended family working at Las Vegas casinos but beneath the sparkling optimism of the music lies a darker, fatalist message: \u201cIt\u2019s just another day in paradise\/Another raindrop in the sea,\u201d he sings. \u201cCount the hours to quittin\u2019 time, trying to cross the silver line that always leads just beyond the shadows of my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Flowers - Paradise (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/esRxX_TVXZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Flowers recorded <em>Thrasher <\/em>in Nashville with producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado. Some of the musicians who recorded on the album include Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings, pedal steel guitarist Bruce Bouton, and harmonica player Charlie McCoy, whose playing graced Bob Dylan\u2019s Nashville LPs. Flowers previously released the album\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChTfZClM1osoBdrzOghD7kg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPlans\u201d<\/a> and a live version of that song <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g5kuOomwvs0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">filmed at RCA Studio A<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not me running away from rock &amp; roll,\u201d Flowers said in a statement when he announced the album. \u201cI don\u2019t want to replace my old songs. I simply found room for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flowers has also announced solo tour dates. Tickets go wide to the general public today beginning at 10 am local time. Full details are on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.brandonflowersmusic.com\/pages\/tour\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the artist\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon Flowers\u2019 North American Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sept. 1 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren<br \/>Sept. 4 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford Theatre<br \/>Sept. 5 \u2013 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater<br \/>Sept. 7 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater<br \/><strong>Sept. 8 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre<\/strong><br \/>Sept. 9 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ Showbox<br \/>Sept. 11 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte<br \/>Sept. 12 \u2013 Denver, CO @ Ogden<br \/>Sept. 15 \u2013 St Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre<br \/>Sept. 16 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theatre<br \/>Sept. 18 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount<br \/>Sept. 20 \u2013 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club<br \/>Sept. 21 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall<br \/>Sept. 23 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Roadrunner<br \/><strong>Sept. 24 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ History<\/strong><br \/>Oct. 2 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits<br \/>Oct. 6 \u2013 Las Vegas @ Wynn Encore Theater<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to a month since announcing his new solo country record, Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is releasing the single, \u201cParadise.\u201d The song will appear on Thrasher, due out Aug. 21. On the song, Flowers knows when to hold \u2019em and fold \u2019em as he spits out gambling puns over galloping banjo, keening steel guitar, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2506991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22847,483828,376621,24124,26575,350453,387440,462894],"class_list":["post-2506990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-album","tag-brandon-flowers","tag-jackpot","tag-las-vegas","tag-new","tag-solo","tag-the-killers","tag-thrasher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Brandon-Flowers-Sings-One-for-the-Croupiers-on-New-Song.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506992,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506990\/revisions\/2506992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}