The Kills
The Kills is an alternative rock duo formed by American vocalist Alison VV Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hotel Hince that rose to public recognition at the dawn of the hype surrounding the genre's explosion of the early 2000s. Mosshart had been in the Florida punk band 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. 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 t...
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Cheap and Cheerful
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The Good Ones
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Future Starts Slow
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Tape Song
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Sour Cherry
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Black Balloon
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Last Day of Magic
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Wait
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U.R.A. Fever
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Hook and Line
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Getting Down
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What New York Used to Be
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Alphabet Pony
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M.E.X.I.C.O.
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Goodnight Bad Morning
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Satellite
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Baby Says
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Love Is a Deserter
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Cat Claw
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The Last Goodbye
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DNA
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No Wow
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Heart Is a Beating Drum
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Dead Road 7
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I Hate the Way You Love
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Fuck the People
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At the Back of the Shell
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Superstition
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Fried My Little Brains
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Nail in My Coffin
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Pull a U
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Kissy Kissy
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Rodeo Town
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Sweet Cloud
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Murdermile
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I Hate the Way You Love, Part 2
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Wild Charms
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Ticket Man
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Damned If She Do
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I Call It Art
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Black Rooster
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Hitched
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You Don't Own the Road
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Hand
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Gypsy Death & You
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Monkey 23
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Pale Blue Eyes
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