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The Dead Weather Announce New US Tour Dates
Making good on their group promise to work every day for a year (and probably more considering the personalities in question here), The Dead Weather have just announced a slew of US tour dates beginning April 15th in San Francisco, just before they are scheduled to hit Coachella on the 17th.
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 Horrors to Kick Off Spring Tour with The Kills
To some it may sound like a harrowing tag line to a Halloween blockbuster: The Horrors and The Kills to Kick it up at Coachella this Spring! Both bands will follow up their Coachella appearance with a U.S. April/May tour, which is quite the opposite of a horror show for fans. The Horrors, recently signed [...]
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 [...]
