Justin Bond’s New EP – Pink Slip
April 2, 2009
There’s so much to say about Justin Bond, but one thing is for sure: if you haven’t seen him perform live, then you don’t know that much about Justin Bond. As far as gender-fucked performace art goes, you can’t get much better than any of his cabaret shows. I’ll even be so bold as to say that a JB show rivals Kiki & Herb in relevance and comedy. So if you head over to justinbond.com and have a listen at the mp3′s he’s posted, please remember it’s all about context. I mean I can tell you how genius it was when he did Britney Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, but really you wouldn’t know unless you saw him do it. Anyway, the sexy old lady is putting out a new EP (which contains a cover of Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes”) titled Pink Slip and the cover art is shown above. Can’t wait! Also, read the touching letter he wrote to his 16 year-old self, you’ll be glad you did.
I really enjoyed seeing Justin and Our Lady J perform recently in SF – it was the first of Justin’s post-Kiki performances I’d seen. Some really good songwriting with a pagan vibe that reminded me of a less-vibrato Antony and the Johnsons. And Our Lady J is a really expressive, versatile pianist.
pagan! that’s a good word for it. the bf and i saw him + band in NYC last summer, it was fantastic! but he did bring his boy toy onstage, too much face time for that newb, i thought. but overall, so good. so glad justin’s busting out.