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05/31 Frankie Rose with SRSQ and Collin Gorman Weiland
at Turf Club
Tour Dates
6/01 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club $
6/03 Chicago, IL - TBA 6/04 Ferndale, MI - The Magic Bag $ 6/05 Toronto, ON - Monarch Tavern $ 6/06 Montreal, PQ - Bar Le "Ritz" PDB $ 6/07 Troy, NY - No Fun $ 6/08 Brooklyn, NY - TV Eye $ $ = w/ SRSQ Read More
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Wednesday night was 80’s night at the Turf Club with the Pet Shop Boys playing through the speakers and Frankie Rose soon to take the stage.
Local musician Collin Gorman Weiland warmed up the crowd with a dirge of industrial dance music that ripped through the club. His latest album is Now & Thus Suite on the Moon Glyph label, a label in which he also works as a regular mastering engineer.
SRSQ aka Kennedy Ashlyn next took the stage to promote her new album Ever Crashing, a dream pop album involving 100 separate tracks all done by the Texas based musician.
Vice Magazine described SRSQ’s debut Unreality as “… floating and abstract.” Songs from her latest album create a lush musical landscape that allow Ashlyn to sing an almost defiant, wounded delivery of someone searching for meaning, yet using music to heal.
The pain is real for Ashlyn never set out to be a solo artist, but part of a duo with Cash Askew. But Askew died in a tragic warehouse/concert venue fire in Oakland, California. So, the theme through most of the evening was the temporal, fleeting nature of being alive. Like in “Saved for Summer” where Ashlyn sang:
Oh, wasted time, is it folly or despair?
Or somehow, in between?
Frankie Rose next took the stage with her band. We last saw her in 2013 opening up for Franz Ferdinand at the Skyway Theater, promoting her album Herein Wild. And it has been over six years since she last released an album. She actually completed one close to three years ago, but due to the pandemic and being a victim to vinyl production backlogs, she is finally on the road promoting Love as Projection, which The Big Takeover Magazine thought could be part of the Stranger Things soundtrack. It is a retro love letter to the type of electronic pop that would find a home in any John Hughes movie.
A highlight was “Sixteen Ways”, a perfectly formed pop song to sing in the car. Another highlight was “Comeback”, a hypnotic dance groove.
A funny moment occurred when Rose moved into the prerequisite merch plug. Then she remembered: “We're out of our record. Just wanted to let you know.”
For the encore she asked the crowd if they had any requests. Someone joked and shouted: “Anything!” So she played “Anything” from her sold out album.
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Frankie Rose at Turf Club, St Paul (31 May 2023) |
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