You Should be Listening to… Frankie Rose & The Outs
If there we were to crown a Miss Lo-Fi, Frankie Rose would be the undisputed queen. Lets review Frankie’s resume shall we? She’s the former drummer of Shitstorm who are now known as Grass Widow. She was an original member of the Vivian Girls and happened to pen the bands break out (and best) song “Where Do You Run” before leaving to joining an other NYC Lo-Fi sensation in Crystal Stilts, only to leave them soon after. Nowadays Frankie is front and center playing guitar and singing with with her own band, Frankie Rose & The Outs.
Not unlike her previous projects, The Outs play a mix of fuzzed out 60s girl group and Twee inspired indie jams. So far they only have the Thee Only One 7″ on none other then Slumberland Records, the same label that released Crystal Stilts fantastic first LP. The Outs are in the process of recording a full length and have 7 upcoming shows, 5 of which will be in Austin during SXSW. So if your in Austin and you want to hold on to your hipness I would set aside some time for catching at least 3 of their sets.
- Banana Wintour
February 25th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
encore encore
February 25th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
What! No mention of the Dum Dum Girls…Frankie’s other band? Haven’t listened to both them and “The Outs….Dum Dum’s take the Gold. But don’t take my word for check out this NY Times article.
February 25th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I’m pretty certain that Dum Dum Girls is still just Kristin Gundred. The article said she just came on to drum for them, it didn’t say she was now working with Kristin Gundred on the music. There’s been a whole slew of people who have played with her in Dum Dum Girls.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
jesus, I’d rather listen to a retarded kid’s fart at this point…give the fuzzed out garage thing a rest
February 25th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Yea I was pretty sure she just joined up to play a couple of shows early but she is listed on the Dum Dum Girls myspace. I think it is more of a “Dee Dee’” cant play every instrument by herself on tour type of deal though.
June 29th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
[...] Records. For those of you who need a little history on Frankie Rose then head back to the You Should be Listening to… segment we did on them a little while [...]