Best of Friday:
Steve Kiviat writes:
Tel Aviv power-rockers Monotonix are not celebrated for their albums. Just like previous efforts, last month's  Steve Albini-produced Not Yet blends hookless shouting with self-indulgent guitar riffs, and the result sounds like an unsuccessful MC5-Led Zeppelin hybrid. But live, the trio compensates with pure spectacle. Singer Avi  Shalev leaps into the [...]

Perhaps Tel Aviv wasn't the best environment for Israeli rockers Monotonix to grow as a band.
You can hear regional and traditional sounds in Monotonix's music, and a familiarity with mainstream pop culture. But the band is quick to admit that its hyper-energetic, often chaotic live sets and the electronic pulse of its songs have made the [...]

In a chilling cover story for this week's Washington City Paper, Rend Smith revisits the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed following an incident outside of the nightclub DC9, setting out to discover who, exactly, Mohammed was.
Trey Graham leads the arts section with his consideration of the play Black Watch, an inventive and widely praised work [...]

And when the drummer drums with a garbage can on his head, in the middle of the audience.

And when the singer sings with a girl in jeans in his arms.

Crazy-haired Israelis who call themselves Monotonix, last night at the Cat.