Chase Frank is a Songwriter, Musician & Singer. She was raised in Long Beach, CA and has resided in Austin, TX for over 17 years. She has been immersed in music most of her life. She has released 5 electric solo albums, and a double single in 2020. Notably, her song "Sweet Apple" was featured in LUCIFER series & the opening scene for FALCON RISING.
After relocating to Austin, TX she founded The Harms -- a cerebral, surfy female forward band launched in 2012. The Harms have released 4 records and are currently in the studio recording their sophomore full length.
EVENT PRODUCTION/TALENT BUYER -- As an event producer and talent buyer, she cut her teeth in her twenties in Long Beach, Orange County & Los Angeles, CA while also managing her music career. Her first large production, "An Evening with Allen Ginsberg" (1994), sold out. She followed it with two city-wide festivals -- "When Words Collide" with over 100 musicians & poets including Patti Smith, The Watts Prophets, John Trudell. Both were granted both city and corporate funding.
She studied audio engineering for 3 years at LBCC and now resides in Austin, TX.
Founder of 90s festival "When Words Collide", a City-Wide Spoken Word Festival (1995 & 1997) A a non-profit festival 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
An Evening With Alan Ginsberg, 1994 - Sept 10, 1994 - 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 CREDIT
Falcon Rising / Lucifer feature her song “Sweet Apple”
Three records with Producer Ikey Owens
Midnight Manor” 2010
Four West Coast solo tours ‘03-’08
Two Texas tours, one nat'l tour w/ the Harms
‘Graveyard Love” & “She Turns” in regular rotation in US college radio
Featured in “Seduced by Sound” Anthology, Austin
Stage managed “Ladyfest Los Angeles” 2003
3 features on KUTX-Austin Music Minute
PRESS
The Austin Chronicle
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
w/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”, single (2013) Produced by Ikey Owens
