Jamie Hince

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...