Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart, lead singer of The Kills and the supergroup The Dead Weather, has just delivered a song under her own name.
Rise portends an exciting solo career.
Rise
The Kills
It’s been 5 years since the last The Kills album Blood Pressures.
American singer/songwriter Alison Mosshart (also of Dead Weather) and British guitarist Jamie Hince release their 5th album Ash & Ice in June.
In this band, Mosshart is known by her stage name “VV” and Hince is known as “Hotel”.
“Doing It to Death” is the single.
Gang of Four
Gang of Four, punk brethren from the 70s, have been off and on through the years with various and a sundry players.
Andy Gill is currently the only original member on the new album What Happens Next.
“Broken Talk” features Alison Mosshart of The Kills and Dead Weather on vocals.
Glastonbury
Glastonbury, the world’s largest music and arts festival, takes place this weekend in South West England.
Traditionally the last weekend in June, Glastonbury has been going strong since 1970 when T.Rex was the headliner.
Today, the line-up is daunting with hundreds of bands and performing artists on numerous stages covering 900 acres.
RCRDLBL has a free download of thirty-one of the bands appearing at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, including The Kills, Lykke Li, Janelle Monae, Battles, Fleet Foxes, Warpaint, Wu-Tang Clan and, and this song “Celestica” from Crystal Castles remixed by Thurston Moore.
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The Kills
The Kills’ fourth album Blood Pressures is out.
We featured the song “DNA” last month in anticipation.
“Nail In My Coffin” is a free download and another engaging song from the new record.
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Nail In My Coffin by The Kills
Podcast Today
New Oedipus Project podcast today at 5:00 pm Eastern and on-demand thereafter on CyberStationUSA featuring:
White Denim
Death Cab for Cutie
The Naked and Famous
The Kills
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Bat for Lashes
Deerhunter
Crystal Stilts
The National
PJ Harvey
TV on the Radio
Noah and the Whale
Belle and Sebastian
Tamaryn
The Kills
The American singer Allison Mosshart and the British guitarist Jamie Hince are the band known as The Kills.
We also know the chain-smoking Mosshart as the lead vocalist of the alt supergroup Dead Weather.
The Kills’ new album Blood Pressures is due next month. “DNA” is a free download from the record.
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“DNA” by The Kills
The Dead Weather
One of the most mesmerizing performances that I have ever experienced was The White Stripes at the Roxy in Boston. This duo of guitar and drums plus vocals hypnotized the room with a sound so full and rich that it was hard to believe that there were just two people on stage. Jack White, the guitarist and singer, has proven to be one of the great futurists of rock, exploring territories yet uncovered. From The White Stripes to The Raconteurs to The Dead Weather, his music is always fascinating and frequently transcendent. The Dead Weather consisting of Jack, playing drums on this project, along with Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount) on lead vocals, Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes) on bass, and Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) on guitar have just released “Die By the Drop” from their forthcoming album Sea of Cowards.
“Die By the Drop”
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