Artist.......: The Kills
Album........: Berlin Live
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2016-10-15
Str.date.....: 2016-10-15
Quality......: 224kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://thekills.tv/
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1. Berlin Live 53:36
Runtime 53:36
Size 86.26
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The bluesy punk duo the Kills consist of vocalist/guitarist VV, aka Alison
Mosshart, formerly of the Florida punk band Discount, and
drummer/guitarist/vocalist Hotel, aka Jamie Hince. After Discount ended in 2000,
VV began exchanging tapes with the London-based Hotel through the mail, but both
of them felt hindered by this method, so VV crossed the Atlantic so the duo
could write faster. In spring of 2001, they issued a self-released demo that
showcased their gritty, sexy sound and earned favorable reviews from such
quarters as TapeOp Magazine. They also contributed a song, "Restaurant Blouse,"
to 5 Rue Christine's If the Twenty-First Century Did Not Exist It Would Be
Necessary to Invent It compilation early in 2002, before their debut EP, Black
Rooster, arrived that summer on Dim Mak.
Along with gigs at the London and Glasgow LadyFests and tour dates alongside Le
Tigre, the Kills also toured the U.S. for eight weeks before returning to London
to finish their first full-length album, Keep on Your Mean Side, which was
released by Rough Trade in spring 2003. A second album, No Wow, arrived in 2005
and was an even dirtier, leaner collection of songs. The Kills retooled their
sound for 2008's Midnight Boom, mixing more electronic beats and pop hooks into
their punky bedrock.
While touring alongside the Raconteurs in support of Midnight Boom, Mosshart
struck up a friendship with frontman Jack White, prompting the two to form a
supergroup, the Dead Weather, in 2009. The Kills took a short break while the
Dead Weather worked feverishly, issuing two albums in ten months and touring
behind both. Blood Pressures ended the hiatus in 2011. The following year, the
band released Dream & Drive, a collection of photographs taken by close friend
and collaborator Kenneth Cappello, who also directed several of their videos.
During the next few years, Mosshart moved to Nashville to pursue her visual art
career as well as continue her work with the Dead Weather, while Hince suffered
an injury to his left hand that required him to learn how to play guitar again
after five surgeries. The duo recorded their fifth album at a rented house in
Los Angeles, as well as New York City's Electric Lady Studios, with Hince
co-producing with John O'Mahony. Ash & Ice, one of the band's most somber sets
of songs, arrived in June 2016.
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