The Oedipus Project
Beverly was the Brooklyn duo of Frankie Rose and Drew Citron.
Rose was also an original member of Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls. She has since moved to Los Angeles.
Citron carries on with a new partner, Scott Rosenthal, and a new album The Blue Swell.
Here are two:
“Bulldozer”
“Contact”
Frankie Rose, an original member of some our fave bands (Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts) has released her 3rd solo album, Herein Wild.
Listen here to the simple pop of the first single “Sorrow” and then her clever cover version of The Damned’s “Street of Dreams”.
“Sorrow”
“Street of Dreams”
Frankie Rose is now a solo artist, no longer Frankie Rose and the Outs as featured in 2010.
This Brooklyn-based darling will release Interstellar in Late February.
“Know Me” excites us for the album and a new year of new music. It’s also free from RCRDLBL.
It’s been ten years since The Strokes album, Is This It, debuted.
This seminal record catapulted New York City once again to the forefront of rock ‘n’ roll, something we hadn’t experienced since the early days of punk.
Stereogum has compiled a free tribute album celebrating Is This It, featuring such bands as Peter Bjorn and John, Real Estate, Owen Pallett, and the Morning Benders.
Like most tribute albums, the covers are hit or miss, versions of favorite songs worthy of deep praise or intense resentment.
I particularly like Frankie Rose’s rendition of “Soma”.
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As we have discussed here in the past, Brooklyn has become the new Seattle, the new Athens, the new Orange County, the new Montreal—an area of the world where musicians are releasing music of import. Although dissimilar in sound and style, there are simply too many bands from Brooklyn influencing the current state of alternative music not to acknowledge this geographical incubator.
Frankie Rose is Brooklyn-based and a former member of both Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts. Her current band is Frankie Rose & the Outs and has recently released an album under the same title. Last year Frankie released the song “Thee Only One” as a solo project. This wonderful rave-up is a free download is the Song of the Day.
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“Thee Only One” by Frankie Rose & the Outs
