An unconventional band is coming to Charleston to share their sound of stomping, clapping and clanging.

Mike Golden and Friends is a band based out of Chicago that plays with everyday objects to make music.

However, on their new album, “Groceries,” the band uses drums and electric guitar and bass to complement their distinctive sound.

The band started with Michael Golden from Hammond, Ind. when he was 14 years old.

“I went to a pawn shop, and my parents bought me a guitar,” Golden said.

He said he met two of the six current band members after they contacted him on PureVolume, a music social media website.

Golden said he started playing covers but then progressively started writing his own music.

There is no set of group members for the band, he said.

Golden said depending on the timing and location, a member may not be able go to a show or they may pick one up.

He said he wants the band’s sound to stay raw by using household objects.

“I always wanted to be in a raw junkyard band,” Golden said.

The band uses objects like beer and wine bottles, a stomp box and a handmade cigar box guitar to create their sound.

Golden said they also make use of their homes too.

The band will also sing in a bathroom to make a different sound, he said.

“I definitely play around with stuff,” Golden said.

He said creating music is a process.

“If I feel like a song needs to be more acoustic-based  – let’s use stomping instead of kick drum,” Golden said.

He said he uses those instruments because he thinks the listening experience is better.

“I try to make music people can feel,” Golden said. “Music can make people feel something different.”

When he was going to school at Purdue University, Golden did not have money to buy electric instruments, only acoustic ones.

Golden said he did not have to pay for other musicians and would add items like bottles to recreate different sounds.

Once he got more of a budget, he said he wanted to add more of a full band to the repertoire.

“I knew I was going to get into that,” Golden said. “Now I’m trying to find a medium – half and half of acoustic and hard rock.”

He said live shows are a mixture of the two styles of music on the band’s albums.

“We will mix it up and started with acoustic then lead to a full band,” Golden said. “It depends on how the crowd is feeling.”

Even though the band’s sound can be set into two parts, he said, during a live show the band tries to make the music sound as authentic as possible.

“Whatever we can do with our hands, our mouths and our feet, we will,” Golden said.

Mike Golden and Friends will perform from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Panther Paw Bar and Grill. Cost for a ticket at the door is $8.

Free appetizers will be available.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].