CONCERT REVIEW: The Kills at the Ritz Ybor, Tampa, Jan. 30

JANUARY 31, 2012

TAMPA -- As soon as Alison Mosshart stalked onstage at the Ritz Ybor, that throbbing leopard-print backdrop behind her made total animalistic sense. The Kills femme-fatale front woman, her thick untamed hair tussled like a howl, is a restless, unhinged performer, one of the most dynamic, and sensuously dangerous, singers in rockdom.

In what was billed as their first-ever Tampa show, Jamie "Hotel" Hince (aka model Kate Moss' husband) and "VV" Mosshart, their nicknames as elusive as their true selves, deftly assaulted a thrashing crowd Monday night for 85 minutes of noise-rock that blended his British post-punk and her American garage grit.

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