Lost internet for a couple days, so Izzy & Chelsea’s Top 5 lists got delayed. Without further ado, here’s Izzy Cihak’s Top 5 albums of 2009: 5. Sex Slaves – Wasted AngelWasted Angel is the sound of the Sex Slaves emerging from the glitteredgrime of the NYC underground to infect the masses. After traveling throughevery corner of America, the band […]
Tegan and SaraSainthoodSire Records Tegan and Sara have, at least to some extent, shaken the crippling depression evident on 2007’s (at times beautiful) The Con. Although the minds of the twin dykons remain melancholy, Sainthood displays the peppily-trudging-through-the-most-hopeless-parts-of-life sentiment that made their earlier work so stunning (and almost Moz-ian). Although far from touching the brilliance of 2002’s If It Was […]
GroomsRejoicerDeath By Audio Grooms’ debut LP sounds along the lines of Thurston Moore walking you “through the nicest parts of Hell.” The Brooklyn trio manages songs with titles like “Acid Kings of Hell (Guitar Feelings)” and “The Nights Were Walls (We Climbed Them All)” that are actually sonically impressive. Their brand of noise is dementedly progressive in a way that […]
The Coathangers@ The BarbaryOctober 6, 2009 There are four girls in tattered clothing, adorned with blue warpaint, shrieking at nothing in particular… and the show hasn’t even begun. They could either be transplanted cavegrrrls or 2009’s best take on “punk.” Returning the City of Sisterly Affection for the first time in nearly two years, Atlanta PostR. Grrrls, The Coathangers, brought […]
Girl in a Coma@ M RoomOctober 1, 2009 Since the breakup of The Runaways 30 years ago, Joan Jett has seemed to make the best use of her time discovering and signing the world’s greatest Power Pop bands for Blackheart Records. This Fall has some of her prodigies (and the only band in the world worthy of their Smiths-inspired moniker), […]
The Sounds@ Theatre of the Living ArtsSeptember 19, 2009 Dripping in bling, Maja Ivarsson stalks across the stage of the TLA like a cross between a majorette and Flavor Flav. Spouting sentiments like “I’ve been doing someone that you know” and “Let’s do it real good” from atop mile-high legs in designer kicks, she is a brilliant conundrum: both elegantly […]
Punk in LondonDirected by Wolfgang BuldMVD Visual If you’ve ever wondered where VH1, Julien Temple, Penelope Spheeris, and anyone else who has attempted to document the punk movement got their stock footage of youngsters pogoing in leather jackets and safety pins, you can look to Wolfgang Buld’s criminally under-recognized Punk in London, recently reissued on DVD. As is true of […]
