A lo-fi, jug & banjo-esqu, garage rock, blues band headed by Alison "VV" Mosshart and
British Jamie "Hotel" Hince. The duo stared off hopping band to band until VV overheard Hince practicing his
guitar in the hotel room above her's. The two became sole mates and maintained a long distance
relationship with one another until edventually releasing some amazingly lo-fi songs under the simple
name, "VV and Hotel."
In 2002 they released a
single entitled "Black Rooster EP" under the
name "The Kills" in Britian before it was picked up for the U.S. Shortly there after, they released their first album "Keep on Your Mean Side" in 2003, which maintained their anti-music industry attitude.
The Kills are quite shy for being musicians. They rarely give interviews, and VV's so nervous to preform in front of a large audience, she ussually chain-smokes and vomits regularly before shows.
In 2005 The Kills released their second album, "No Wow", which deviated from the course they had previously laid down for themselves to follow, and went into more of an artistic "post
punk" yet still sounded just as, if not more, stripped down as Keep On Your Mean Side.
The Kills' most noteable songs are:
Fried My Little Brains Keep On Your
Mean Side
Pull-A-U Keep On Your
Mean Side
Black Rooster Keep On Your Mean Side
No Wow No Wow
The Good Ones No Wow
Murdermile No Wow
