Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock `n` Roll Group, Svenonius Ian F.

So much of the allure here is in watching Svenonius skirt absurdity. Hes always seemed delighted by the fact that the profound and the preposterous can sound awfully alike, a realization that puts him in line with an avant-garde tradition that stretches back before rock n roll crystallized this fact...Svenonius has the spirit of a long-gone punk past, but his book has more to tell us about rocks here-and-now than about its hereafter. Neither bourgeois nor prestigious, Supernatural Strategies may be the rare book by a rock musician to retain any power or threat.
--Los Angeles Review of Books

Like its author, Supernatural Strategies is part tongue-in-cheek, part deadly serious -- a satire of rocks consumerist origins but also a thoughtful treatise on what it means to devote yourself to a collective...Drawing from the wisdom of rocknrolls most famous ghosts, Svenonius advice ranges from hilarious to cryptic to surprisingly useful.
--Pitchfork

Svenonius has walked the walk. . . Even today--as the frontman of Chain & The Gang and the host of the online talk show Soft Focus--he remains cool, cryptic, and impeccably dressed, a mod magician with a trick always lurking up his tailored sleeve.
--The Onion AV Club

If write what you know is one of authorships prime dictates, then Ian F. Svenonius seems uniquely qualified...Svenonius contrarian, anti-establishment rhetoric is his greatest gift...Strategies plays to these same strengths by allowing him to run roughshod riot over hallowed ground hes already trod--and sometimes paved--more than a few times.
--Baltimore City Paper

Ian F. Svenoniuss experience as an iconic underground rock musician--playing in such highly influential and revolutionary outfits as The Make-Up and The Nation of Ulysses--gives him special insight on techniques for not only starting but also surviving a rock n roll group. Therefore, hes written an instructional guide, which doubles as a warning device, a philosophical text, an exercise in terror, an aerobics manual, and a coloring book.