THE EX SENATORS

“Its time to wake up! - If you ever loved the bug eyed passion of the prime time Clash and the heart on sleeve words are our weapons poetry of socially concerned rock n rollers like the Boss or Billy Bragg then the Ex Senators are talking your language. - (LouderThanWar.com UK) Where are all the rebel songs is the most asked question of these times. Where are the songs that relate to the meltdown, the songs of defiance, the songs of community and redemption. Rock n roll can be many things but sometimes it has to have a social conscience. It has to relate to the real world. Lennon, Dylan, Strummer, Bruce- the canyon of names, blue collar rock n roll poets, voices that have to be heard in the meltdown. The Ex Senators fit firmly into this tradition. They exist in that world that is beyond fashion and talent show hucksters. This is a heartfelt rock n roll with songs of struggle sung with a celebration of life and the empowering rush of believing in the power of rock n roll. The subject matter is the voice in the wilderness, the international craving for community in the face of the machine. It’s timeless rock n roll material and in the right hands it’s truly effective. The band, who come from Chicago, have dumped the phoney fashion parade for an album of songs that deal with the modern politic with a passion and a wit that is startling in its brazen concern for the truth in a time of mainstream musical lies. Their debut UK single, ‘Start a Fight” is proof that mainstream rock can actually have a power and purpose. The song comes with one of the videos of the year. An animated call-to-arms clip that doesn’t pull it’s punches and makes its point with a wit sharpened by an intelligent anger. The clip, like the band’s songs, hits all the right targets with its creative overload. “The concept for the video was all this political bullshit meets The Ramones Spiderman,” grins frontman Dmac. “In a nutshell, the political dialogue in America has become nothing but hyperbole and hatred on both sides of the aisle. They’re all full of it.”. DMac speaks fondly of musical truth tellers such as Joe Strummer and Billy Bragg, Springsteen and Dylan whilst voraciously eating up the world’s media on the Internet, trying to find some sort of truth out there. Intelligent, passionate and with big hearts The Ex Senators typify a lost world in rock n roll, a world where music means something and can effect change with its passion and it’s intelligence.” HERE