The News Review:
- Breaking Artist: Sam Champion
- hellip; City Paper :: Philadelphia Arts Restaurants Music…
- The Kills’ art goes present tense
Breaking Artist: Sam Champion
Rolling Stone – May 21, 2008
Sounds Like: Ryan Adams covering songs off Pavement’s Wowee Zowee. On their second album Heavenly Bender Sam Champion genre jumps from song to song joyfully morphing elements of raw punk and twangy roots rock with Beck-like precision. “We’re just trying to make music that we’d listen to. Vital Stats:
#8226; The band shares their name from noted New York television weatherman Sam Champion even though they say he has nothing to do with their band. “He’s a principal in a high school in Texas where I almost went to the school” jokes Chernin.
hellip; City Paper :: Philadelphia Arts Restaurants Music…
Philadelphia citypaper.net – May 21, 2008
Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics from CVM Archive An 81-minute program of prints from Los Angeles’ Center for Visual Music which specializes in visual music experimental animation and avant-garde media. Included are rare films from the ’20s through ’70s by German pioneer Oskar Fischinger Mary Ellen Bute Anthology of American Folk Music’s Harry Smith and others. The series continues next Friday May 30 with films produced in the 21st century… ) While on tour in rural Wisconsin four punk-rocker girls get caught up with an ax-wielding foot fetishist who will stop at nothing to get a piece of foot. The Philadelphia premiere of JoJo Henrickson and William Holmes’ horror flick. Followed by discussion with the directors cast and crew.
The Kills’ art goes present tense
AZ Central.com – May 21, 2008
And it does sound modern. I mean we didn’t sacrifice using terrible guitar sounds or anything. Those “terrible guitar sounds” as it turns out helped define the gritty post-punk swagger and dark allure of first single U. Fever a track that bluesy undercurrents aren’t so far removed from the first album Keep On Your Mean Side even as its use of empty space recalls the minimalist urges of No Wow. All the while it sounds more modern than either… As Mosshart recalls “I was living in Florida and I was on tour with a band that came over to London quite often and stayed in this flat. And Jamie lived above the flat that I was staying in with some of his friends. So I heard him playing music through the ceiling and I was kind of intrigued by who was playing the guitar upstairs. They struck up enough of a friendship that Mosshart was able to borrow Hince’s four-track when the Florida punk band she’d been in since she was 14. “I had never written songs myself” she says. “I’d only written lyrics to my band’s song. So I started experimenting with stuff and then I’d come back to London and play him everything I did.