With their fever-hot new CD Midnight Boom, the Brit duo is making a murderous racket. Now if only they could do something about their bowling average.
By
Ray Rogers
March 17, 2008
With a name like The Kills, maybe it’s only fitting that Alison “VV” Mosshart and Jamie “Hotel” Hince suffer for their art. Making their third album, Midnight Boom, they both agree, was “hellish.” After a failed songwriting jaunt to Los Angeles—they loathed it—the duo shuttled back and forth between their deadly cool neighborhood in London and the flat-out dead town of Benton Harbor, MI, with a breakdown escape to Mexico in between, before arriving at their final destination. It took several years, and a mighty toll on their finances and romances.
