Alison Mosshart
The Kills Announce Rarities LP, Share ‘Raise Me (Demo)’
The Kills will be bringing fans a treat at the end of the year. The duio will release Little Bastards a new compilation of B-sides and rarities culled from 2002 to 2009. It will include the never-before-heard demo of “Raise Me from the band’s Midnight Boom period; “I Call It Art” from the Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited covers compilation; a performance of “Love Is A Deserter” from an XFM radio session and covers of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Forty Four,” Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell on You” and Dock Boggs’ “Sugar Baby.” And the LP will be available in CD, digital and LP formats and will be the first-ever vinyl pressing for some of the songs. The title of the new LP comes from the duo’s nickname for the drum machine that allowed them to start off and survive as a duo. “It was a Rolan...
Alison Mosshart Drops Eerie Short Film for ‘Animals’
Alison Mosshart has kept herself busy in 2020. Not only has she been releasing new solo music, but Mosshart also announced her first solo spoken word album, Sound Wheel. And today (July 20), she has dropped a short film that features an excerpt from “Animals.” “Hey, if we were living like animals,” Mosshart recited in the video in the video. “It didn’t feel like that then. No one pointed it out that I can remember. It didn’t seem that bad.” The 69-second clip not only shares a piece of her poetry, but it also showed Mosshart’s directing side. Similar to “Returning The Screw,” Mosshart experiments with a lo-fi surveillance video look but also seems to play with the horror movie genre. As the camera focuses on someone sitting in a chair, you start to see this individual start moving from sid...
Alison Mosshart Announces Sound Wheel, Drops ‘Returning The Screw’
After releasing a number of singles earlier this year, Alison Mosshart has finally announced her first solo project. But it won’t be what you think. While fans of The Kills and Dead Weather singer are hoping for some music, the new project will actually be a spoken word album. Sound Wheel “is an album about cars, rock n’ roll, and love. It’s an album about America, performance, and life on the road. It’s an album about fender bender portraiture, story tellin’ tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood,” said a press release. Mosshart explains the project in a statement, which you can read below. “When I was writing Car Ma, there were some passages I struggled to get right, and I got in the practice of reading them out loud and recording them, to hear and feel wh...
Alison Mosshart Has Solo Dance Party in ‘It Ain’t Water’ Video
Following the release of her debut single “Rise” a few weeks ago, The Kills singer Alison Mosshart has shared “It Ain’t Water.” The new song is a slow burner with a video that sets the mood. Mosshart dances around herself in the foreground while a closeup of the rock artist is superimposed on the clip singing the track. She recorded the song with Alain Johannes (Queen of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey), which she said was a great experience. “Working with Alain on ‘It Ain’t Water’ was a blast,” Mosshart said in a statement. “He’s such a talent and such a kind person. His mind is wide open. He understands and sees the beauty in imperfection, magic moments, accidents- the soulful human stuff, and the spirited super-human hard to explain stuff that makes a song great. Working with him was...
