MILDRIOT
9 p.m., Town Pump. $3.

When we last saw Michael Chavez, he was playing last year’s Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase under the name Miles Rattz.

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Since then, he’s changed his name to Mildriot and finished an album, “Fought Songs,” which is due for release in February via Sister 9 Recordings, which is apparently somewhere in the UK (their website hypes him as their “first US-based artist”).

The songs are endearingly unpolished and dizzy and simple — home recordings that seem rooted in the hushed and insular late ’90s and early-aughts indie rock of bands like Grandaddy and the Unicorns.

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