Main Street - By Chain and the Gang

New song produced by Chain and the Gang.

* About CHAIN AND THE GANG *

Everywhere that liberty goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, materialism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, class struggle; these phenomena, when combined, seem to be synonymous with Liberty. So just as its called liberty when war and greed stalk the land, Ian Svenonius calls his band Chain and the Gang. Like a true chain gang, theyre on the road to confront and defy any freedom-lovers that come across their path. They shuffle, manacled, across railway yards, and through graveyards; theyre on the side of the road, picking up the garbage as they walk, as people drive by, yelling at them. All they can do is become a chorus of metal meeting metal, hands hitting hands and a collective voice louder than one. It started with one lifer (Svenonius) and grew to include a gang of small time bandits with Calvin Johnson, Brett Lyman (Bad Thoughts), Sarah Pedal, Faustine Hudson (The Curious Mystery), Brian Weber (Dub Narcotic Sound System), Veronica Ortuño (Finally Punk), Nicolaas Zwart (Desolation Wilderness), Karl Blau, Lizet Ortuño, Chris Sutton (Hornet Leg), Sixx (The Vibrarians), Arrington de Dionyso, Aaron Hartman and Benjamin Hartman (Old Time Relijun). How do they describe their sound? Something they just found. They dug it up from the ground. Essential to that soil: guitar, drums, organ, saxophone and chants; paying off our collective debt to the universe. There are songs with a driving locomotive engine (Reparations, Interview with the Chain Gang), a full-on choir of the disenfranchised (Cemetery Map, Deathbed Confession, Trash Talk) and disentangled, soul-influenced invitations to a celebration (Room 19 and Unpronounceable Name). Down With Liberty Up With Chains is simple and profound, the way a pebble on the beach is. There are no song cycles, sample beats, sequencers or baby pictures of the artist as a tot. The Gang is set to shuffle across the Land of Liberty in Spring 2009. Join them as they hope against hope, fan the flames, shake their fist and say Yeh! Yeh! Down with Liberty! Up with Chains Put those handcuffs on my hands.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mappingmainstreet
• main street
• ian svenonius
• chain and the gang

[otherfunk]

Great track! Kind of Jonathan Richman crossed with Tom Waits. I love it :)

[ROBERTyay]

I want to know the same thing, are they making a 45 of it?

[hobocakes]

is this track going to be released on their next album or where can i get it?