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CHASE FRANK!

put some strum in your glum

About Me


THE BOTTOM TWO SONGS ON PLAYER ARE FREE!! JUNE's FREE SONGS:
THIRD AND ORANGE
(Midnight Manor EP, '08)
Ahmad-Jamal (vocals), LaDawn Best (drums)
HAPPY GO LIGHTLY
(not yet released, live on IS GOOD killradio.org) w/Ahmad-Jamal (drums/vocals). (forgive the sour notes, no monitors!)


RECENT PODCASTS, PRESS

Chase Frank & Ahmad Jamal on KILLRADIO's "...Is Good" show
4.8.08--SIX LIVE SONGS / FREE DOWNLOAD
IS GOOD PODCAST 4.08.08
with Jon Hershfield killradio.org. visit www.isgoodmusic.com
Chase Frank solo on KILLRADIO.ORG
"IS GOOD" PODCAST 11.15.07 with Jon Hershfield killradio.org
AUSTIN CHRONICLE! SXSW 2008 MENTION
Melanie Haupt enjoys us, and says we "specialize in angry, confessional lo-fi rock". Guilty as charged, Melanie...
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MIDNIGHT MANOR PRESS / PODCASTS
Jan 8, 2008, Self released, 23 min
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"...mean lean rock that’s set to slow boil. “Bipolar Belle” waltzes darkly with the standard “My Favorite Things,” adding flinty guitar accents and forbidding vocals in the vein of ex-Geraldine Fibbers front woman Carla Bozulich." REVIEW HERE: OC WEEKLY REVIEW
"MEDIA BLACKOUT", DETROIT METRO TIMES
WASHINGTON'S PHILLER PODCAST picks
'SOME FRIEND YOU ARE' on their 'New Song Daily' podcast
MTV.COM RECOMMENDS CHASE'S EP
Yep, guess me and T-pain rolled out on the same day. Also Patti Smith's release was 2/8/08. It's a weird world.

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REVIEWS FOR "WINTER IS MY SUMMER"
full length. 13 songs, 2006, Vesuvius Records, 59 min
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...."follows closely along the lines of great bands like Portishead and the fuzz-crunchiness of Sonic Youth. The thirteen songs on her album prove that you only need one to make it happen." Valdas Karalis, LONG BEACH MAGAZINE
....a "one woman guitar storm".
Chris Ziegler / OC WEEKLY
" 'Front Lines' and 'Twelve Hours to Go' are some great songs with some thinly veiled opinions on certain topics in the U. S. Watch out Chase, or Dick Cheney might come shoot you in the face." Boyd Wunder
BIG WHEEL MAGAZINE, CA
"My Captor" is a startling lo-fi exercise in sound that recalls Sonic Youth.....The white-hot intensity of "Tethered Heart" is accomplished with the slightest of instrumentation. But Frank's vocal is strong enough to carry it. " Anna Maria Stjärnell, COLLECTED SOUNDS
Stockholm, Sweden COLLECTED SOUNDS REVIEW
"Kaki King turned me onto little girls with big guitars. I've started looking out for good women solo guitar players. If you like guitar without gimmicks, I expect you'll like Chase Frank's latest CD, ....Winter Is My Summer''. Chase Frank's music will catch many people by surprise, but, if they take the time to catch up with her, I believe they will be aptly rewarded for their effort." TIM'S BEFUDDLED UNIVERSE (.org), San Jose Ca
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REVIEWS FOR BEE OF MY MIND
2003, Poverty Level Records
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Short, but oh so sweet. Chase Frank's debut is perfect on so many levels. Her voice is a flexible instrument that suits her music's free spirit well.
Anna Maria Stjärnell, COLLECTED SOUNDS
Stockholm, Sweden full review here
MERCH!!
HOW TO BUY STUFF HERE?The new 7 song EP, "MIDNIGHT MANOR", Album & single tracks can be purchased here, single tracks (I-tunes--left, Snocap--above) or mail-order by PayPal (look left) or CD Baby for nat'l & intn'l mail-order.
DUE TO THE AUTO-BAND ADD SPAM MADNESS WE HAVE BLOCKED BAND ADDS. If you are in a band who really wants to add Chase Frank and you are NOT A MACHINE, write us a message, thanks!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/16/2004
Band Website: chasefrank.com
Band Members: CHASE FRANK
AHMAD JAMAL
aka "Last Word"

BOOKING: chase [at] chasefrank [dot] com

PUBLICITY: BECKI CARR, YARRR PR!
EPK Miss Frank on 'Sonicbids.com'
LICENSING Lindemark Music, Deanna Sorenson

Album Art:
album art by: CAROL POWELL

CHASE FRANK ON I-TUNES
'Winter is My Summer'
'Bee of My Mind'

MIDNIGHT MANOR EP

7 songs (self-released) Jan 8, 2008


MIDNIGHT MANOR (track list):
1. Sad Song
2. Doubt
3. Bipolar Belle
4. Some Friend You Are
5. Third & Orange
6. Six Degrees
7. Taunting Greed

WINTER IS MY SUMMER
13 songs/Vesuvius, Feb. 2006

WINTER IS MY SUMMER (song list): 1. Tabitha's Plea
2. Hometown Love
3. Front Lines
4. My Captor
5. Space Report
6. Gospel of Sue
7. Twelve Hours to Go
8. Tethered Heart
9. More
10. The Groom
11. Kickstart
12. Night Eyes Are Wild
13. Floating with Sarah

BEE OF MY MIND
8 songs / Poverty Level Records / 2003

BEE OF MY MIND Track Listing: 1. Sweet Silence
2 Sleepwalking
3. Kickstart
4. Licorice Root
5. All Voices
6. Yellow 4
7. Sweet Bee Returns (reprise)
BUY THE ALBUM HERE

MIDNIGHT MANOR TOTE BAG! RE-USE! RECYCLE!
End your addiction to plastic here!
hand embroidered --Orange (brwn thread), White (blu thrd) or Black (wht thrd)

THE ORIGINAL HAND BLEACHED T-SHIRTS
(midnight blue, sky blue, black, S, M, L, XL (1x, 2x sp order no charge)

ENJOY THE HOME MOVIES!

Influences: P.J. Harvey, Billie Holiday, The Geraldine Fibbers, Nels Cline, The Kills, Devotchka, Nico, Stereolab, Nina Simone, The Ravonettes, Cat Power, Portishead, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Love, Nina Simone, Robert Johnson, Broadcast, The Swans, Two Gallants, Elliot Smith, Jimmy Hendrix, Gabor Zabo, Bartok, Grant Green, The Supremes, Gnarles Barcley, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Komeda, The Who, T-Rex, Stevie Wonder, Ali Farka Toure, John & Alice Coltrane, X, Lou Reed, Loretta Lynn, Howlin' Wolff, Bill Withers, Townes Van Zandt, Siouxi, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Enio Moricone, Rufus Wainright, Spacemen 3, Blonde Redhead, Secret Machines, Johny Cash, the Supremes, Keith Richards (early Stones/Tom Waits), Cee Lo Green, The Tindersticks, Minmae, Robert Fripp, Wilco, Nathan Payne, Rademacher, King Crimson, Mia Doi Todd

Record Label: none currently, self released '08
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rubbish @ Echo Curio July 3

RUBBISH Thursday, July 3, 2008--at Echo Curioart: Ronald Dzerigian, Carol Powellmusic: The Pity Party, Chase Frank, Malik the FreqEcho Curio, 1519 SunsetBlvd.Echo Park, CA  90026213.977.1279, doo...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:49:00 PST

RADIO PLAY: killradio, insomnia radio, luver, Radio Free Satan, Live 365, Radio Freedom, etc.

"Outsight Radio Hours" which gets played on a bunch of stations, is playing my song "Bipolar Belle". Thanks Tom! e-mail the DJ@[email protected] to request more Chase Frank. Sh...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

DRY T-SHIRT CONTEST

We want you! Please send us pictures of you in your sexy-vintage hand bleached Chase Frank T-shirts!  The winner with the best photo will get a new T-shirt and a copy of the new EP Midnight ...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Thu, 29 May 2008 11:01:00 PST

BIO(S)

Chase Frank currently resides in Long Beach, CA with her boyfriend Alberto. Chase & Albert will be moving to Austin, TX in September 08, the town which he is from. Bandmate & fr...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Sun, 25 May 2008 12:51:00 PST

Chase in Austin Chronicle SXSW review, and our favorite bands....days and days!

Austin chronicle's Melanie Haupt gave us a mention in her highly detailed review of SXSW, day one, including the Rocky Erickson show, die die die, etc!  thanks Miss Haupt. link here: ht...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:00 PST

new reviews for Midnight Manor EP!!!

OC WEEKLYChase Frank::Midnight Manor EPreview by DAVE SEGALThursday, 12/13/07You know Long Beach singer/songwriter/guitarist Chase Frank is sincere because she prints her morose lyrics in her own scri...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:46:00 PST

"Some Friend" featured as ’new song of the day’

I like their choices in music, glad to be included! visit http://www.thephiller.com and check out his 'new song daily' thing.  pretty cool.  ...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:59:00 PST

'Midnight Manor' EP, details & tracks

Hey all.... Making a 'record' is like creating a novel, to me.  The stories and textures of the songs should flow together, yet each should be like a new chapter, introducing something new. ...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:02:00 PST

Whats my story? abridged version, per me

My name is Chase Frank.  This is a short bio--according to me.    The details of my life are quite inconsequential.  Ok, maybe not.  I am an identical twin.  I had a som...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:15:00 PST

Warner Bros.--"Run Riot" show chose "Front Lines"!

My song "Front Lines" (from the album "Winter Is My Summer"/2006) was chosen by Producer/Writer/Editor extrordinaire Carrie Schultz as the title track for a new television series called...
Posted by CHASE FRANK! on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:05:00 PST