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FRANK FRIEND

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About Me


Often mislabeled, always inventive, Frank Friend is a risk-taker from Bradenton, Florida. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, singer, & MC, creating a unique brand of homegrown hip-hop meets indie.
“Friend won't be stopped. I've seen him win over noisy crowds of several hundred at places like the Distillery in Bradenton”
–Wade Tatangelo (Bradenton Herald Staff Writer)
Someone who insists on remaining very productive and always evolving. This energy is focused into two main efforts: solo work and Daylight District .
Solo Work - 2007 saw two releases from Frank Friend. The first “early saturday morning” contains ten self-produced home recordings, featuring Friend's unique brand of hip-hop with his vocals/production on all tracks. This release showcases many unique collaborations with guests Travis Hampton, Nathan K, Kid Bazooka and Bobby Griffin. The second “Musical Wallpaper (2003-2007)” includes thirteen dynamic instrumental tracks that leave the listener feeling calmer and refreshed, featuring no guests. These are the third and fourth solo releases.
Daylight District - A four piece band formed in 2004, where Friend is the featured composer/keyboardist/MC. The band released a full-length album titled “Beautiful, Historic” in May of 2008. It's their second release to date. Both were engineered by Greg Marchak at Audio Lab studios in Tampa, Florida.
On Daylight District's "Beautiful, Historic:"
"Orlando/Bradenton quartet Daylight District's full-length Beautiful, Historic melds funk, punk, emo and hip-hop in a highly distinctive manner. Keyboardist/vocalist and chief songwriter Frank Friend alternates between melodic rapping and singing. The lyrics largely focus on personal struggles -- but there are also a couple odes to partying. Tim Heller's bass lines, Aaron O Tobin's drumming and Paul Solorzano's guitar work flesh out Friend's eclectic musings and keyboard foundations. One of the disc's finest numbers, "Are We There Yet?," finds Friend playing acoustic guitar and rapping over a melody that climaxes into a gripping mash-up of indie-rock and funk."
–Wade Tatangelo (Creative Loafing, Tampa)
"…eclectic bass styles, skronk jazz guitar, and change-em-up beats come together easily throughout, whether the vocals are rapped or sung, they provide a foundation that's both interesting and consistently, reliably melodic. The best tunes are still the ones with more mellifluous vocal passages, like "Snapshot," "7am," and "Sad Situation," but even those who hate the whole indie-kid rap thing have to respect the originality and musical prowess displayed here, and folks who are into stuff like the Anticon set would do well to scarf it up"
–Scott Harrell (REAX, Tampa)
On Daylight District's first E.P., “This is Now:”
“It only has six songs on it, but they are all excellent tracks” – Kayla Anderson (Connections, Orlando)
“…for such a brief record, it's impressive indeed.” – Mark Sanders
(Weekly Planet, Tampa)
With the new album on the way, 2008 will be a busy year for Daylight District and Frank Friend. Many live shows will be performed to support all three of the above releases while constantly working hard creating new music.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/15/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/daylightdistrict
Band Members: Frank Friend

Contact: [email protected]
Sounds Like:

Musical Wallpaper (2003-2007)13 dynamic instrumental tracks from Frank Friend. Musical Wallpaper is an inspiring journey. It is intended to leave the listener feeling calmer & refreshed.Currently only available at Daylight District shows.Listen to a few select tracks now for FREE!!!Just click the link and press play!Listen Here.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Back To the Basics

Remember music before blogging, web pages, and online support? You could come across an artist or album and totally fall in love with the music, solely based on the music. Someone would hand you a rec...
Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:15:00 PST

things im looking forward to:

New Phoenix album - Summer New A-Camp album (Nina Persson of The Cardigans) - Late summerNew K-Os album - late 2008?
Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:35:00 PST

American Idol

I heard Tia Carrera being quoted as saying the TV show "American Idol is nothing more than glorified karaoke." There is some truth in that statement. However, I don't completely agree with it. In my ...
Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:13:00 PST

"Beautiful, Historic"--new Daylight District CD

On December 27th, Daylight District will be heading back into Audio Lab Studios in Tampa to wrap up all work for "Beautiful, Historic." It's our first full length album ever, and second release to da...
Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:26:00 PST

Reverb Nation Page (unreleased song)

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Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:29:00 PST

Frank Friend featured on SMAsh Radio!

check this out: My song "You Can Be My Friend" is featured on SMAsh Radio. They also speak about the song and album before and after they play it, it's pretty funny. Thank you very much sma.com!!The...
Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:44:00 PST

Ottmar Liebert

If you ever have the chance to see him perform, do it.Here is a song from when he played in Clearwater. ..>...
Posted by FRANK FRIEND on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:42:00 PST