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Sentimentalist Magazine’s Top Live Gigs of 2009
It’s very simple: we see many, these stuck out. Our top picks in no order are below, other than Leonard Cohen owning and deserving the very first slot.
The Kills Go Back to Work
Not that there has been a dearth of Alison Mosshart coverage thanks to a certain Horehound she’s been chewing on as of late, but for all you Kills fans out there hoping for a sign that a creature stirs – news broke Tuesday via a blog post on the band’s official website that Mosshart and Jamie Hince have indeed reconvened to lay the framework for their next, and fourth, album.
The Kills – ‘Midnight Boom’
If the last Kills album, 2005’s No Wow, was akin to licking the floor of a dive bar in Camden while balancing a shot of whiskey on your head, Midnight Boom is Technicolor, candy-coated sex and grime; Day-Glo playground glee with a weathered copy of The Raven nearby. At once hectic and noisy, slinky and [...]
The Kills: Taking Poe to the Playground
When you think of The Kills, the words “pizza, pizza, daddio” don’t readily come to mind. Maybe they should. Maybe that’s the problem.
NYLON Magazine with The Kills at Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 02.11.08
Dressed in an animal print shirt and roughed-up gold boots, Alison Mosshart (V.V.) of London band The Kills prowls the stage like a tigress in heat, while her partner in music (and against the world) Jamie Hince (Hotel) manically assaults his guitar. To call this duo “sexy” would be trivial, trite, even. To sum them [...]
