Tag Archives: Louis XIV
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Jason Hill on producing and recording with Sylvain Sylvain and New York Dolls
Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls (right) with Jason Hill. Courtesy: Hill. Editor’s note: Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, a founding member of seminal punk band New York Dolls, died Jan. 13 after a battle with cancer. Born in Egypt, the 69-year-old co-started the hugely influential group in 1971. Musician-producer-composer…
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MINDHUNTER: Composer Jason Hill, of Louis XIV, never complacent
Photos courtesy: Department of Recording and Power, Netflix Since he was 12, Louis XIV frontman and score composer Jason Hill had always been a member of one band or another. While his friends juggled other childhood interests, playing music was all that mattered to Hill. MINDHUNTER This is the…
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‘MINDHUNTER:’ Inside the mind of composer, David Fincher collaborator Jason Hill
Louis XIV and Vicky Cryer frontman Jason Hill had just broken up with a girlfriend on a Friday and was wondering what he would do next. Two days later, he answered a phone call that would alter his career trajectory; one that would lead him to write music for…
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Vicky Cryer: Louis XIV’s Jason Hill gathers talented friends for new band’s first SF show
Vicky Cryer, courtesy. There are two foremost things you need to know about Vicky Cryer. The first is that the Los Angeles dance-rock collective is not an all-star band. Though it (currently) features the drummers from Muse and Nine Inch Nails, the bassist from The Killers, Julian Casablancas’ keyboardist,…