![]() ![]() You’ve written a new book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group. Maybe the style is playful.įZN: Fair enough. IS: Oh, I think all the points are made directly and are pretty up front. The Nation Of Ulysses had revolutionary manifestoes next to (great) songs about hickeys next to conspiracy theories… IS: Nah, we just got back together for a couple of concerts but we don’t actually exist.įZN: In every band you’ve ever been in you play with seriousness. What’s going on there, are Chain and the Gang through? More Make-Up shows? It was a lot of fun.įZN: You played with your old band, The Make-Up, not your new one, Chain and the Gang. IAN SVENONIUS: Yeah, I did some readings and we got some concert offers down in L.A. We talked a few weeks ago about everything from Margaret Thatcher’s death to his thoughts on Saccharine Trust to the gender politics of male falsettos to unpaid content creators as the groupies of the modern world.įANZINE: You just got back from Coachella, what was that like? Regardless of whether you think you’re in the choir he’s preaching to, or if you just want some pointers on starting a band but can’t be bothered to summon the spirit of Buddy Holly for religious reasons, read this guide for the perplexed and you will not be disappointed. Personally, I did not know I had so much to learn from Chuck Berry on questions of Manifest Destiny and the Cold War, but the mysteries of the hereafter are inscrutable. At this point, our best hope may indeed lie in holding séances with beatified bluesmen. Totally makes sense, right? Well, while his first book, The Psychic Soviet, was a collection of unrelated though fantastic essays, the new one is a sustained meditation that aims to decode the cultural contradictions of life in late capitalism through the prism of rock ‘n’ roll––something he’s uniquely suited for. His brand new Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘N’ Roll Group, out now from Brooklyn’s Akashic Books, aims to demystify the process of starting a rock ‘n’ roll band via a series of detours into mysticism and geopolitical history. Ian’s been a fixture of the punk and underground music scene for two decades, most famously in Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and Chain and the Gang, among other shorter-lived projects. ![]() What’s left to say about Ian Svenonius? He keeps writing music and is now on his second book so it looks like there’ll be plenty more to talk about for the foreseeable future. Supernatural Strategies For Making A Rock ‘n’ Roll Group ![]()
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