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Live Picks: 5/9

Willie Watson

BY JORDAN MAINZER

A hardcore legend’s no-longer side project, a rising folk star, and the best of what Chicago has to offer.

Wear Your Wounds, Empty Bottle

Starting as the solo project of Converge’s Jacob Bannon, Wear Your Wounds has made the final transformation into a five-piece band. After the release of their debut album WYW, Bannon assembled a band to play festivals. Not counting singles, experimental releases, and a live album, WYW’s true followup comes out in July. Recorded with the entire band, which now consists of Mike McKenzie, Adam McGrath, Sean Martin, and Chris Maggio, as well as guest appearances from  Ben Chisholm and and Gared O’Donnell, Rust on the Gates of Heaven promises to be a fuller affair. If the title track, the only released so far, is indicative of the album as a whole, it continues to show Bannon move beyond his hardcore leanings. Starting with solemn, intersecting piano lines, foreboding cymbals, and Bannon’s mournful vocals, it builds up into a bed of militaristic snares, weeping guitars, and deep bass, slow-burning metal for the melancholy.

NYC noise duo Uniform and local metal band Unmanned Ship open.

Willie Watson, Old Town School of Folk Music

A founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show, folk singer Willie Watson has broken out as a solo artist the past few years. He’s released two records, aptly titled Folk Singer Vol. 1 and Folk Singer Vol. 2, and appeared last year in The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Tonight, expect to hear tracks from both albums and possibly his rendition of David Rawlings and Gillian Welch’s Oscar-nominated Scruggs track “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings”.

Raleigh singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy opens.

CFA Media Mixer, Constellation

Bonus pick! Tonight at Constellation, you can catch the premiere of three audiovisual collaborations, local artists and footage from the Chicago Film Archives’ collection. The artist pairings are SILY favorite Bill MacKay with Brian Ashby, Natalie Chami of TALsounds with Emily Eddy, and cellist Lilianna Zofia Wosko with Amir George.

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CHICAGO: Thursday, June 30 @chicagofilmarchives will be presenting a short film made by Kishino Takagishi and scored by myself as part of their Chicago Film Archive Media Mixer. Kishino has crafted something really beautiful made entirely from CFA footage and I’m very proud of what we have made together. If you are free I encourage you to go see it at @constellationchicago June 30 at 8:30pm alongside other new works by @tempestthazel & @theeazita / Janelle Dowell & @sen_morimoto . Also, though I am living in Portugal now I may yet make an appearance of sorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #chicagofilmarchives #chicagofilmarchive #chicagofilm #chicagofilmmakers #film #filmarchive #chicagofilmmaker #chicagocinema (at Constellation Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyomZbDm3m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Picture edit: Cauleen Smith Sound: The Eternals

Presented by Chicago Film Archives and Music Box Films & Music Box Theatre

Footage courtesy of Chicago Film Archives

Made for the 2nd annual CFA Media Mixer, June 6, 2013 chicagofilmarchives.org/