12 Facts About Chris Clavin

Chris Clavin is an American musician and record label owner from Indiana, United States, with a strict DIY punk ethic.

Chris Clavin has been involved in numerous punk bands and ran Plan-It-X Records, a label founded in 1994.

In 2002, Chris Clavin formed the two-piece folk punk band Ghost Mice with Hannah Jones.

Chris Clavin started working on solo recordings in the fall of 2004 when he wrote a song and recorded it in the same day to give to someone as a gift.

Chris Clavin tried to write and record one song a day.

Occasionally Chris Clavin utilized his friends "Colorblind" Joe, McKayla or others for help.

When Chris Clavin first started releasing solo songs, he did not want his typical moniker attached to them.

Chris Clavin released six full-length albums, one split, and appeared on a handful of compilations and other small projects as Captain Chaos before using his real name on his solo work.

In 2008, Chris Clavin decided to stop releasing songs as Captain Chaos, and instead use his traditional moniker.

Chris Clavin began to tour solo again on a small scale, and has released one album so far.

Several of the dozens of small artists Chris Clavin collaborated with or published music for over the years - Kimya Dawson, AJJ, Waxahatchee, Spoonboy and Ramshackle Glory - publicly condemned his alleged actions, requested that Plan-It-X Records cease distributing their products, and stated they would remove Chris Clavin's work from future printings of these split records, although it does not appear any further physical printings of these records were produced.

Chris Clavin continues as a songwriter and has released several albums under the moniker of Captain Chaos recently, including "Shawties," in 2019 and "Black Swan" in 2020.