Ted Raimi brother of Sam Raimi (Director of Spiderman, Evil Dead, Xena: Warrior Princess, and much more) contacted Sinister Foxy's Kim Paris in September '09 in search of Detroit-based music for his new web series, Playing Dead.
She took the role of Music Supervisor for the project which premieres today.
Episodes 1 & 2 can be viewed online at:
Songs by Troy Gregory & the Stepsisters ("The Drama, The Horror, the Star") and Prussia ("Supreme Being") are featured in the closing sequence of the first two episodes which can be viewed today.
The next six episodes include songs by The Go ("Invisible Friends"), Ultraviolet Radio ("Dead in LA"), Lightning Love ("Friends"), and another song by Prussia ("Great Lakes").
This is an exciting moment for Detroit bands!
Kim Paris runs Sinister Foxy Productionsan independent booking agency in New York. She began Sinister Foxy in 2005 while living in Detroit, booking bands such as Bad Faces Clan, The Questions and The Go.
In 2007, she moved to New York City and has since expanded her roster to include heavy psyche rockers Spindrift (current & former members of Brian Jonestown Massacre & the Warlocks), Hopewell (ex-Mercury Rev), The Lovetones (Australia), Powersolo (Denmark) and dozens more. Kim will soon be playing shows with Fuxa, fronted by Randall Nieman of Spectrum (featuring Sonic Boom from Spacemen 3).
She's currently producing her first edition of "Sinister Foxy Radio" a monthly podcast for Radio Mind Expansion, the streaming online radio program of Mind Expansion Records (Faust, The Telescopes, Martin Rev, Suicide, Spectrum). Kim is also an actress studying improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC.
She can be seen in Q-Tip's music video for "Man Woman Boogie" from The Renaissance (Universal Motown Records), as well as several films produced at New York University, New York Film Academy, and elsewhere. Kim was Music Supervisor for all eight episodes of Playing Dead.