Chase Frank
bio
Chase Frank is am accomplished Singer, Musician & Songwriter. She was raised in Long Beach, CA and now resided in Austin, TX. She has been immersed in music most of her life. She composes, arranges, plays guitar, wails on vocals and yes, produces and Musically Directs. She has released seven solo albums - Bee of My Mind, Winter is My Summer, Midnight Manor, Smile Trials, B-Sides & Rarities, and This Big Blue/The Only You (double single 2021). Stream Chase Frank at chasefrank.bandcamp.com
After relocating to Austin in ‘08 she started The Harms at the suggestion of Ikey Owens. The 4 piece, launched in 2012, has elements of Psych Rock, R&B, & Surf. The Harms have released four records Take the Elevator/House The Sun (a double single), She Turns (EP produced by Ikey Owens), Graveyard Love/Sound Dragons (double single), Hysterico and are currently completing their sophomore full length 10 song record with Grammy winner Beto Martinez / Leche House studio - funded in part by Austin City’s “Austin Live Music Fund”. Stream The Harms - theharms.bandcamp.com
Her song "Sweet Apple" is featured in Fox/Netflix LUCIFER series & the opening scene for FALCON RISING.
She studied audio engineering for 3 years at Long Beach City College. She is the Founder of "When Words Collide" - a City-Wide Spoken Word Festival (1995 & 1997) presenting literary/music performances in the city of Long Beach, CA. The festivals featured Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, The Watts Prophets, Jim Carroll, John Trudell + 100 more literary leaning artists/musicians. In An Evening With Alan Ginsberg, 1994 - Sept 10, 1994 She featured historic Poet Allen Ginsberg at the Promenade Amphitheater, Long Beach CA - One of the largest concerts on his final tour celebrating the release of “Holy Soul Jelly Roll” with approx. 1,000 in attendance.
STREET CRED
Falcon Rising / Lucifer —“Sweet Apple” opens S3/E5
Three records with Grammy winning Producer & Keyboardist Ikey Owens
Four West Coast solo tours ‘03-’08
Two Texas tours
United States tour w/ the Harms
‘Graveyard Love” & “She Turns” in regular rotation in US college radio
Python in regular rotation in US college radio
Featured in “Seduced by Sound” Anthology, Austin
Stage managed “Ladyfest Los Angeles” 2003
3 music features on KUTX-Austin Music Minutes for THE HARMS
Guest host in 2021 on My KUTX show
PRESS
The Austin Chronicle - on The Harms "Catchy fuzz-punk sermons with the wires exposed."
OVRLD The Harms- “Hard hitting girl rock, Motown-esque choruses and jangly garage numbers: The Harms have it all."
OC Weekly, writer: Chris Ziegler - “Frank writes and plays like she's both armed and on the run, with her time and vision saved only for the most vital things, and Owens' production shows just how gutsy these songs really are.” review, Smile Trials, 2011
Performing Songwriter - Chase Frank music on Midnight Manor "This seven-song set casts Frank in a mostly menacing light, be it the arch exhilaration of "Doubt" or the ominous strains of "Some Friend You Are" and "Six Degrees. Edge and attitude win out.
Clearly, the lady is a vamp."
CATALOG
Chase Frank: "This Big Blue"/"The Only You" double single (2021)
Smile Trials (2011) EP - Produced by Ikey Owens
"Midnight Manor" full length (2008)
"Winter is My Summer" full length (2004)
“Bee of My Mind" full length debut album (2003) Poverty Level Records
THE HARMS
"Hysterico" single produced by Stuart Sikes (2021)
“Graveyard Love/Sound Dragons” vinyl single, Produced by Alec Esh
“She Turns” EP (2014) Produced by Ikey Owens
“Take the Elevator/House the Sun” double single (2013) Produced by Ikey Owens