photography by benjamin hoste

Monotonix performing at The Smell on September 16, 2009 with Signals.

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Israel’s Monotonix are known and respected and perhaps even secretly coveted here in L.A. because of their world-wrecking live set and super-charged rock ‘n’ roll. Singer Ami Shalev speaks now while presumably fully clothed. This interview by Rena Kosnett.

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The Monotonix threesome is the hairiest, sweatiest 3-headed creature since mythological times. There’s a blues-riffing guitar and a rousing drumbeat, but the physicality of the band’s performance overshadows everything else. The look in singer Levi “Ha Haziz” Elvis’s eyes, wide open and peering about, is louder than the English and/or Hebrew words he’s growling into the microphone.

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tod seelie

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Via F Yeah Fest, now with less ‘uck’:

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Volcom Entertainment’s 3rd Annual “Free Beer Party” w/L.A. RECORD:

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