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Damn Damn Damn (New CD)
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Released: Jan 15, 2012
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General Info

  • Genre: Indie / Post punk / Rock

    Location Chicago, Un

    Profile Views: 36987

    Last Login: 7/3/2012

    Member Since 11/22/2004

    Website www.facebook.com/themosesgun

    Record Label DKT Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The Moses Gun is a Chicago based rock band that features the soul stylings and distorted chaos of Vell Mullens on guitar and vocals along with the rumbling sonic fury of Rich Harris on bass, guitar, and backing vocals. We do what we do - and we have for a minute. Beginnings? Let's paint a picture - Wicker Park, mid to late 90's - riddled with lots of skinny pants and Converse wearing trust fund kids in their trust fund condos slumming it up in the big bad city. Band after band trying to be the next "big thing". The Moses Gun? Living in veritable poverty, jamming on second hand pawn shop instruments, barely nourished on a diet of Ramen noodles, camel cigarettes, Busch beer, and (insert random illicit substance here), all the while writing rambling odes to relationships lost, baby mamas, dope, and disillusionment (in no particular order). While other bands may have evolved with trends (a little NuMetal here, a little post-punk there – nothing wrong with that), the Moses Gun hath plotted a different course - seeking to somehow merge all that we believe to be right and just: random episodes of Good Times (James Evans episodes, of course), dog-eared Upton Sinclair novels, the wacky pre-911 innocence of our youth, combined with the pop sensibilities of Motown, the sheer power of Husker Du, and the urgency of mid 90's Hip-hop - which is utterly ironic, as we have few, if any, elements of hip-hop in our music, but I digress... It hasn't stopped really - the Moses Gun will stay in step with the stream of consciousness narrative seeping from our collective craniums. We remain in a tireless, unyielding pursuit of truth the way we see it. There is no failure - only forward.

  • Members

    Vell Mullens, Rich Harris

  • Influences

    The Moses Gun is a rock band. The Moses Gun is from Chicago. The Moses Gun is your friend. The Moses Gun means you no harm. The Moses Gun knows your special needs. The Moses Gun pleads the fifth. The Moses Gun needs your vote this November. The Moses Gun lives the decadent life of the rock star, without the messy needles. The Moses Gun is a rock band.

  • Sounds Like

    "the Chicago quartet the Moses Gun couldn't help but pique my interest when bassist Rich Harris wrote to promise "a multicultural band that grew up listening to Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Wu Tang and Husker Du…. sort of like an African-American Pixies, or Queens of the Stone Age." And guess what? The band actually delivered it." - Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times "One of the best things about the Chicago "indie rock" scene is that it never fails to offer up a diverse, unpredictable mixture of sounds under that single generic label. Case in point: the hard-driving, grungey-yet-ultimately hard to pigeonhole rock of The Moses Gun" - Frank Krolicki, WindyCityRock.net "The Moses Gun blends elements of noise into highly kinetic rock that could be labeled punk if they were not so skilled at their instruments. "Phlox", like the closing "Million To One", is a soaring, throbbing track that hits you repeatedly about the head for three minutes before giving way to the slower, thicker, jazz-tinged "Broken Neck". This dichotomy of sound and styles makes The Moses Gun either brilliant or immensely frustrating, depending on your tolerance for experimentation." - Rich Quinlan, JerseyBeat.com

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