Thanks so much to everyone that came out to Found Sound: Chicago yesterday! You make our hearts warm and fluttery. Keep your eyes & ears open for the FS:C video coming at ya shortly, and please don’t let today’s weather torture you too much. 

1:00 
Plastic Crimewave
1042 N Winchester St @ Thomas (front porch)

1:30 
Lawrence Peters Outfit
1032 N Wood St @ Cortez (backyard)

2:00 
Mark Booth 
1120 N Ashland Ave @ Haddon (Corbett vs. Dempsey)

2:30 
Heartichoke 
Departs from Corbett vs. Dempsey (in-transit performance) 

3:10
Andy Slater 
2047 W Walton St @ Hoyne (side garden)

3:40 
the meme
2337 W Thomas St @ Western (3rd floor balcony)

4:15
Matthew Hale Clark
2237 W Rice St @ Leavitt (garage)

5:00
Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan & Sheering Pinx
1914 W Chicago Ave @ Winchester (Permanent Records)

6:00
Judson Claiborne
1150 N Damen Ave (Rainbo Club)

followed by…
Found Sound: Chicago after party! 
1150 N Damen Ave (Rainbo Club)

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Matthew Hale Clark (American, b. 1775) is a Chicago-based guitar player and artist, unknown for his work as 1/2 of the psychedelic drone duo White/Light (on Steve Shelley’s Smells Like Records).  Clark has performed on Oprah, at Le Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and at the Big Horse Taqueria (R.I.P.); Clark has recorded under contract to Capitol Records and Astralwerks Records and/or under handshake to Honk If You’re A Moose Records (R.I.P.).  Clark’s recent music activities include a month-long sound installation and performance residency at the Museum of “Contemporary” Art Chicago, an afternoon-long performance residency playing Rolling Stones (R.I.P.) songs solo for a conference room full of tax lawyers, and a brief appearance on lap steel guitar with space punks Disappears at Lollapalooza.

Clark’s music is at the forefront, and in the background, of the one-man contemporary “Cosmic American Primitive” movement.  He is the youngest son of influential rust belt folk-blues ukulelist Weezy Newhard Clark and a brother to all.

For this performance, Clark will be playing melodic instrumental acoustic steel string guitar music and hosting a garage sale.

SELECT PRESS:

“(White/Light’s) guitar player is like Jimi Hendrix, if Jimi Hendrix was white and looked like he worked at Google.”  Some Person, The Internet, July 2011.

Tune in & drop out to the sonic underpinnings of Matthew Hale Clark’s White/Light!

…And don’t forget to bring $ingle$ to his garage sale.

Plastic Crimewave was born one Steven H Krakow and was quickly drawn to colorful comic books, the Byrds and Mad Magazine, and it’s basically been a straight line ever since, delving deeper into 60’s psychedelia, cartooning and all things vibrationally bizarre. He is the brainchild creator of the Galactic Zoo Dossier, a hand-drawn psychedelic culture mag, published by Drag City, as well as numerous album covers (for Drag City, Locust, Birdman, The Strawbs,  etc), posters (Incredible string Band, Witchcraft, Josephine Foster), illustrations, etc. He’s freelanced writing and art for Arthur, Stop Smiling, Roctober, Signal To Noise, Time Out Chicago, etc.

He also heads up the Plastic Crimewave Sound, a spaced-out acid punk ensemble inspired by the underground sounds of Velvet Underground,  Krautrock, biker jams and freeform musics. So far there’s been 4 LPs and the group has toured w/Acid Mothers Temple, Oneida, the Ponys, Zolar X,  Comets on fire, etc and has played festivals in LA, Montreal, NY etc. Crimewave runs the Galactic Zoo Disk reissue label imprint on large indie Drag City; conducts the Vision Celestial Guitarkestras (of up to 70 guitarists, from Chicago to NY), does the “Secret History of Chicago Music” comic strip for the Chicago Reader; toured and collaborates w/many from Japan (and has toured there). He has booked the “Million Tongues” festivals in conjunction with the esteemed Empty Bottle club, featuring international players like Bert Jansch, Terry Reid, Tony Conrad, Michael Yonkers, Simon Finn, Mark Fry, etc.

He’s been exhibited internationally, including at the MCA, and has been profiled in LA Weekly, Mojo, Magnet, SPIN, Blackbook, Fader, Stop Smiling, Chicago Reader and a buncha zines….

Take your ears backward & forward in time with some Plastic Crimewave tunes!

Alejandro Morales and Nicole Miller make up this two-piece noise band. Do not mistake this for your normal droning noise act. Swirling theremin from Miller squeals out over synth samplings from each, and when it really heats up, that’s when Morales jumps on drums and sends everyone into a musical oblivion. Catch it live.

~In Rotation by Myles Raymer via John Yingling, videographer and blogger (hotmetaldobermans.blogspot.com) for Chicago Reader July 21, 2011 

One word: experimental. Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan from Chicago are no electro-pop party band. Most of their songs do not even contain lyrics. Their instruments? Try just about any electronic gadget that creates what science calls random sounds overlapping all at once or “noise”. PPPMMM is made up of Alejandro, from  Puerto Rico and Nicole, from Wisconsin who describe their music  as “candling your ears”.  Two years ago, Nicole and Alejandro sparked something other than love, they started “just jamming.” It should be noted that Nicole confessed that eating Kinder Chocolates (Belgian manufactured chocolates) is what starts the two off at the beginning of every practice. “Kinder Bueno” is their latest fix. PPPMMM is definetly worth checking out. But for hearing sensitive peeps, bring some plugs because PPPMMM don’t mess around. Wait, au contraire! They do.

~Jamming With Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan by Ruby Ortiz for Remezcla.com December 17, 2008

Locals PISS PISS PISS MOAN MOAN MOAN are at times intimidating, at others serene. Their chilling electronic compositions are captivating, and they’ve definitely become one our favorites. PISS PISS PISS MOAN MOAN MOAN are a new favorite of ours, a duo that play bent and twisted electronic equipment in creating works that are by turns delicate and extreme. 

~Empty Bottle July 8, 2008

Step into PPPMMM’s experimental soundscape and have a listen!

Artist, writer, and sound-maker Mark Booth presents a smorgasbord of reconditioned and recontextualized aural fragments, a delectable musical collage constructed live amid an exhibition of Dominick Di Meo’s 1960s visual collages.

The Lawrence Peters Outfit is a dyed-in-the-wool honky tonk band, with bluegrass influences. Lawrence sings, and plays snare drum, leading the band through his classic-sounding originals, and a choice selection of vintage material. The group (Matt Gandurski, Dave Sisson, and Josh Piet) gets it just right, with plenty of fire on the faster tunes, and that sweet country smolder on the moodier songs. This is for fans of the deep-rooted, heart-felt kind of country music that you don’t often hear anymore. They just released their debut album.

Listen to The Lawrence Peters Outfit’s shit-hot honky tonk right here!

Following his self-released solo debut, Before Midnight Scholar, Chicago’s Judson Claiborne continues to document the phenomenon of personal transformation with Time and Temperature, his new record on La Société Expéditionnaire.

Each song mirrors the greater truths of introspection through unique tales of characters encountered along Judson’s journey. A remote viewer, working for the CIA, struggles to maintain his relationship with his wife as he travels through time and space. A faded barkeep leaves for the desert to help minimize the number of immigrant border crossing deaths. A literature student falls in love so deeply that he eats his partner to absorb her qualities. An artist violently deconstructs on an urban expressway in protest.

The distant melancholy familiar to listeners of Low Skies (Judson’s previous band) has grown into emerging layers of song in the tradition of troubadours, journeymen, country-western stars and master-less wanderers. The roots of country and folk are palatable, but a very modern sense of uncertainty drains any refuge taken from the dusty nostalgia of lost eras. Time and Temperature is the finest blend of Indie Folk with progressive abandon, as the ghosts of the Great Ones smile down on Judson Claiborne with a nod and a wink.

Treat yourself to Judson Claiborne’s melodramatic roots music!