Justin Vivian Bond: Low Double Standards

Having shed the skin that she/he wore as the front half of the punk-lounge duo Kiki & Herb, Justin Bond retains a mama-snake mixture of nurture and menace: part transsexual den mother, part cultural assassin, part offhand Cassandra. Delivering eclectic musical selections in a sepulchral rumble, Bond is a Lou Reed for the new millennium, reveling in shameless shamanism.