Chain & The Gang

Chain & The Gang

Experimental Music

Radical Elite

***CHECK STOCK!!!  Received a 7.7 rating from Pitchfork.  CHAIN & THE GANG… the world’s only “DOWN WITH LIBERTY” group… the best and most radical rock n roll group ever… have a BRAND NEW long playing record out on RADICAL ELITE records and its a “head scratcher” for sure… Chain & the Gang—known as the dynamic and irresistible live combo that pens provocative, unforgettable odes to obedience and total destruction (e.g. “Devitalize”, “Certain Kinds of Trash”, “Detroit Music”) got sick of the simple fare so prevalent at the rock festivals these days. After nodding off to the washed-out zzzounds of the latest five-star folly critic’s catastrophe, “Chain & the Gang” decided to respond with their patented perversity; they reached to the farther corner of the lab and came up with an immortal classic in the hard-to-hear genre of “EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC” (!!!!?!!!!)   In fact, this record is so confounding, so new and uncharted, they decided to call it “EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC.” Not only is it a pounding super-classic, but it's the final word in the experimental music genre, answering the questions initially proposed by John Cage, Yoko Ono, LaMonte Young etc., shutting down the need for further experiments forever. The Lab is Closed!   Besides Chain & the Gang's “Chain”—aka IAN SVENONIUS––the “EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC” LP features an all-star cast of avant-garde geniuses such as DANNY KROHA (the Gories, Demolition Dollrods, Danny and the Darleans), FRED THOMAS (Saturday Looks Good to Me, Lovesick, Tyvek, His Name is Alive), SHELLEY SALANT...

Chain & The Gang

Best Of Crime Rock

In The Red

Chain & the Gang are different than the rest. You won’t see their name on the garbage heap of hyped bands pushed by paid-off web-zine tastemakers. They’re not “jingle-core,” tattooed onto your subconscious via Madison Avenue mind-control ad campaigns. They’re not middle brow NPR indie listening for Prius owning cubicle rockers or a tiresome teenage retread of ‘90s surrender sludge.  No. Chain & the Gang are singular, terrifying, unparalleled. Not only the most ferocious live combo ever witnessed but also the world’s ONLY anti-liberty rock ’n’ roll group. Their motto? “Down with Liberty … Up with Chains!”   Chain & the Gang don’t care about grades, likes, traffic or hits. They don’t petition publicists for goofy hype or pander to the corrupt institutions who molest rock ’n’ roll and use it as their plaything. Chain & Co. don’t play that game. They want total destruction of the insipid rock ’n’ roll status quo and the foul system it purports to offer relief from –- but in fact keeps afloat.   Chain & the Gang have released five uncompromising records, each one a brilliant tossed off sketchbook of insolence and provocation: “Down with Liberty … Up With Chains!”, “Music’s Not For Everyone”, “In Cool Blood”, “Minimum Rock ’n’ Roll”, and “Experimental Music”.  You got them or always meant to get them. Now: YOU DON't HAVE TO!!!   Now you only need one:   This is it: Chain & the Gang; “BEST OF ... CRIME ROCK” , on 'In The Red'...

Chain & The Gang

Minimum Rock N Roll

Radical Elite

***This spring, CHAIN & THE GANG will release its fourth full-length album, Minimum Rock n Roll, on IAN SVENONIUS’ imprint, Radical Elite. Chain & the Gang is led by Svenonius, the prime mover behind the bands NATION OF ULYSSES and THE MAKE-UP, and author of two books — Psychic Soviet and Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group—not to mention online talk show host and auteur filmmaker. The band deals in a new genre called CRIME ROCK that updates rock n roll, blues, and gospel music of the late ‘50s /early ‘60s for the discerning few. As Ian himself puts it: "If asked about it by a prospective fan, I would say 'Watch out; it might hurt your feelings.' Or 'Be careful...there's no telling what might happen if you put it in your ear.'" Why? Because Chain & The Gang isn't for everyone. It's not designed for the victims of Ikea who rely on robots to choose their background muzak, but it can also prove to be addictive and has some disturbing side effects. A gang with a fluid and floating active core, Chain & the Gang recorded Minimum Rock n Roll in Portland, Oregon with Ian and KATIE ALICE on vocals, BRETT on electric guitar, CHRIS on bass guitar, and FIONA on drum kit. It was then mixed down in Washington, D.C. by BRENDAN CANTY (Fugazi, Deathfix). Minimum Rock 'n' Roll is a protest against a world where everything is available—the internet's engorgement of the senses has...