Long before he became a weirdo-comedy star on Saturday Night Live and Portlandia, Fred Arisen was a Chicago indie rocker. Back when he was the drummer for Trenchmouth, Armisen made his widely bootlegged guide to SXSW 1998, and I heard people talking about that when he first popped up on SNL. Now, Armisen has returned to the Chicago indie world to make a new album called 100 Sound Effects, which is exactly as advertised. Well, not exactly. There are 101 sound effects on this LP. Apparently, he couldn’t bear to cut “Fred Walking To Control Room.”
