A decade later, The Kills still rocking the two-piece act

The Kills began their career in 2002 during the heyday of minimalist rock duos.

Ten years later, the White Stripes are no more and the Black Keys are a four-piece, leaving the Kills with their loud guitars, drum machines and dark lyrics as the last duo standing.

amNewYork spoke with singer Alison Mosshart as the band prepared for its 10th-anniversary show at Terminal 5 this weekend.

What are you most proud of when you look back over 10 years? Everything. I keep talking about when we met and how strongly I felt about how much I wanted to do this and how crazy the idea was. The idea was, I was going to move to London and make [guitarist Jamie Hince] be in a band with me. It worked out the way I thought it would. It's been life-changing.

What keeps your relationship with Jamie going? We had this kind of common instinct and goal at the beginning: that we would turn our lives into this band and it would be everything to us. I know how difficult it is to find a person like that - someone you can create with and work with and make something bigger than the sum of its parts.