Country	United States, United Kingdom
Years active	2000 – present
Genres	Garage Rock
Labels	Domino Records
Members	Alison "VV" Mosshart, Jamie "Hotel" Hince

The Kills are a garage rock band formed by American vocalist Alison "VV" Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie "Hotel" Hince. Image File history File links Thekills_bandlogo. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ...

Career

Mosshart had been in Floridian punk rockers Discount and Hince in British rock band Scarfo. When these groups disbanded, the duo, who first met when Mosshart heard Hince practicing in the hotel room above hers, struck up a songwriting partnership. For months, the pair air mailed work tapes across the Atlantic; after this proved to test the patience of both artists, as it took days or weeks to get each others tapes, Mosshart upped sticks from her Florida home to fly to London. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Discount was a punk rock band from Vero Beach, Florida that formed in 1995 and disbanded in 2000. ... Scarfo were a British rock band featuring Jamie Hince, now guitarist of The Kills. ... Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. ... Look up Atlantic Ocean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Wanting to cut themselves off from their pasts, Mosshart and Hince considered their new project to be Year Zero in their careers, so they renamed themselves VV and Hotel respectively and began writing sparse, minimalist songs together with the aid of a drum machine. In 2001 they showcased their new songs on a well received demo tape. In true punk rock fashion, however, the pair shunned approaches from major record labels. Recording as VV and Hotel, they contributed the song "Restaurant Blouse" to the compilation If the Twenty-First Century Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It. Shortly after this they recorded their debut release, the Black Rooster EP, which saw release on British indie label Domino Records and was picked up for distribution by Dim Mak Records in the United States. A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Black Rooster is an EP and the first release from The Kills. ... An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ... Domino Records is an independent record label based in London, United Kingdom. ...

The record could not have been more of a departure from both artists previous bands. It was Lo-fi in both musical and aesthetic terms. The record sleeve featured photos of Mosshart and Hince taken in a photo booth rather than professional photography. Musically, the record was a sparse, lo-fi Garage rock/Blues hybrid. Though the band cites PJ Harvey, The Velvet Underground and Royal Trux as immediate influences, the music press has largely compared them to the other boy/girl minimalist garage blues duo The White Stripes. Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ... Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ... Photo Booth is a small software application for taking photos with an iSight camera by Apple Computer for Mac OS X. It features 17 built-in effects that can be applied to photos. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Blues music redirects here. ... PJ Harvey in concert. ... The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ... Royal Trux was an American rock band, founded by Neil Michael Hagerty (vocals, guitar) and Jennifer Herrema (vocals). ... The White Stripes are an American minimalist rock duo from Detroit, composed of Jack White on guitar, piano, lead vocals and songwriting, and Meg White on drums, percussion and vocals. ...

Following international touring, they entered Toe Rag studios, where the White Stripes had recorded their album Elephant, to record their debut album Keep on Your Mean Side, mostly on 8-track, in just 2 weeks. Distributed in the US and UK by Rough Trade Records, the album was similar in style to the EP, veering from the Velvets-esque stomp of "Wait" to the noisy, dirty garage punk blues of "Fuck the People" (this song is rumoured to be a reference/homage to the french serial-killer Florence Rey)and dark psychedelia of "Kissy Kissy". The record was well received by the music press, though the White Stripes comparisons would not go away. Elephant is the fourth album by American rock band The White Stripes, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). ... Keep on Your Mean Side, the debut album from the Kills was released on April 1, 2003 through Domino Records. ... Rough Trade Records was formerly an independent record label based in London, England. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ...

Maintaining an anti-careerist, anti-music industry attitude, the band rarely granted interviews. Rather, they got the music press to come to them with their minimalist yet powerful live shows (which also included the drum machine), the pair maintaining an air of tension by subverting the expected role of stage performer.^{[citation needed]} Mosshart, who had only recently taken up smoking (after years of publicly critiquing cigarettes and smokers), spent her time on stage chain-smoking and vomiting, rarely speaking to the audience, whilst Hince violently ripped blues riffs from his instrument. At a New York City show following the ban on public smoking, Mosshart went on stage with three bottles of water, lit up a cigarette and proceeded to smoke constantly from the first song to the last note of the set. The Kills have been criticized for their alleged anti-American and anti-corporate attitudes, whilst putting out their record in the U.S. on an American, corporate record label, RCA, which features The Kills prominently in their label's artist list. Careerism is the overwhelming desire or urge to advance ones own career or social status, usually at the expense of other personal interests or social growth. ... The music industry is the industry that creates, performs, promotes, and preserves music. ... The cigarette is the most common method of smoking tobacco. ... Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... RCAs logo as seen today on many products. ...

Their second album, No Wow, was released by Domino records on 21 February 2005. Featuring an artier, less guitar rock sound, the record embraced New Wave and post punk influences and sounded even more stripped down than Keep on Your Mean Side. Originally written to be performed on a Moog, the band was forced to change directions and record it primarily using a guitar as its central instrument after Hince's Moog broke and couldn't be repaired before entering the studio. ^[1] A 40-minute DVD documentary was included with a limited number of copies and features interview, performance and on the road footage shot on tour. On 21 February 2005, No Wow, the second album from the Kills was released on Domino Records. ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Post-punk was a musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid 1970s. ... Keep on Your Mean Side, the debut album from the Kills was released on April 1, 2003 through Domino Records. ...

The first single, The Good Ones, from No Wow, was released on 7 February 2005 and reached number 23 in the UK singles charts. On 21 February 2005, No Wow, the second album from the Kills was released on Domino Records. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mosshart features in the title track of Placebo's latest album Meds, released on 13 March 2006 in the UK, and on 4 April 2006 in the US. Placebo are an alternative rock band consisting of Brian Molko (vocals, guitar), Stefan Olsdal (bass) and Steve Hewitt (drums). ... Meds is Placebos fifth album. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Discography

• Black Rooster EP, Domino Records, (2002)
• Keep on Your Mean Side, Domino Records, (2003)
• No Wow, Domino Records, (2005)

Black Rooster is an EP and the first release from The Kills. ... Domino Records is an independent record label based in London, United Kingdom. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Keep on Your Mean Side, the debut album from the Kills was released on April 1, 2003 through Domino Records. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... On 21 February 2005, No Wow, the second album from the Kills was released on Domino Records. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Official site
• The Kills at MySpace
• The Kills at Last.fm
• Domino Records site
• Dim Mak Records site
• The Good Ones music video
• The Kills interview clip for Edie:Girl on Fire

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References