It's not exactly the Monsters of Folk, but Platform Booking is bringing a show to Mootsy's this week that stretches the definition of folk music almost beyond recognition.

Headlining the show is New York transplant Leif Mulch, a punk-folk artist and self-proclaimed interstellar storyteller who the New York Press called an "odd, quirky genius."

Mulch got his start in music at church choir when he was a kid, and discovered rock music while attending high school in Taiwan. As an adult, he wandered all over New York, playing house parties, farmers markets and bars. His songs are sometimes simple and sparse, other times incorporating loops, drum tracks and avant garde art noise.

Hailing from Alaska, Jon Crocker self-recorded, mixed and mastered his latest self-titled album in his bedroom last winter while overlooking the frozen Bering Sea. On the record, Crocker plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, organ, bass, harmonica, accordion, psaltery, hand percussion from found objects including a Rubbermaid tote, a skillet, bells, wooden sticks, and a desk. He is also accompanied by a trumpeter friend on select songs. Oh, and Crocker also plays a banjolele, which is a hybrid of a banjo and a ukulele.

The bill is supported by local acoustic rogue Matthew Winters, and newish psych-folk band HORSES, on Friday at 10 p.m. at Mootsy's, 406 W. Sprague. Cover is $5, 21 and older only.