Lie: The Killers'
Sam's Town is, as lead singer Brandon Flowers boasts, the greatest album of the last 20 years. Truth: The same
overreaching, voice-of-a-generation ambition that smothers
Sam's Town is, in concert, magnified into
spectacular rock 'n' roll melodrama. British Columbia's Hot Hot Heat complement the Killers—they're less self-important and
easier to dance to. (
WaMu Theater, 800 Occidental Ave S, 628-0888. 8 pm, $33.)