Our songs are pop-like in form and twisted in spirit. We write happy music about sad things, and sad music about happy things. We think that songs and arrangements should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. We think that music, particularly live music, should be fun, and that you should be able to dance to most of it.
We are The Brothers Frank, and this is our website.
The view from my monitor console as Donna the Buffalo rocks out. They were exceptionally good this night.
C
posted 6 July 2010
words and music by Chris Frank and Kate Eastman
So long to your light heart, sweetheart
You wore it well
You turn and you sweat in your sleep for fear of me
I couldn’t tell
Oh I got a watchdog in me
You brought it out
The night was just quiet enough
‘til you opened your moooooouth
KATE SINGS:
I’m shaking my head and
I’m rolling my neck and
I’m deaf to the good things I’d hear
If you’d quit your speaking
And I’d quit my speaking
And you’d let me take off your coat, my dear
WHILE CHRIS SINGS:
Oh, there’s dust under your tongue, my dear
No, most of what you’ve done
I don’t wanna hear
AND TOGETHER:
Who said you could speak your troubles?
Trouble with you
The shake in your step and the knot in your neck
Are now my trouble too
Take care where you step now, sweetheart
Hands to the wall
I am behind you
Behind me there’s nothing at all
CHORUS
You were saying my name
In your sleep
I called and you came
I could keep you
CHORUS (BUT THIS TIME THEY SWITCH PARTS!!!!!!!??!)
posted 20 June 2010
Just before we moved out last month, we made a little film in the Laundry Room. Shot by Drone at The Wild Honey Pie.
posted 10 June 2010
The song is called “Kids”.
C
posted 2 June 2010
Tilt-shift strikes again.
-H
posted 20 April 2010
Free, all ages, 10:00 PM. This is part of a MEISA party that starts at 8:00 PM, so show up early if you want to partake. Sidewalk’s address is 94 Avenue A, in the East Village.
posted 18 April 2010
Trash Bar is on 256 Grand St, between Driggs and Roebling, in Williamsburg. My friends from Crazy Mary play right before us at 10:00 PM, then we play at 11:00.
Also, 4/22 is Julie’s birthday. She’ll be there. Buy her a drink.
- C
posted 18 April 2010
I don’t know which I want more, the cat or the iPad.
-H
posted 15 April 2010
Steve Jobs’ ears must be shaped differently than mine. I can’t imagine he’d allow Apple to sell earbuds that fit so badly.
But I use iPod earbuds because they’re all I have, and I have just discovered something delightful about them. Or rather, I’ve discovered something odd about myself, which has a delightful consequence when I’m listening to music through earbuds.
What I’ve discovered is this. When I smile, my ears move. More specifically, they move in a way that makes iPod earbuds fit correctly.
So when a song makes me smile, the recording immediately sounds orders of magnitude richer, bigger, better. Which makes me smile more, which makes the recording sound better, which…
… and so on until I realize I’m grinning like an idiot.
posted 14 April 2010
Preeeetttyyyyy
(both the video and the song)
-H
posted 8 April 2010
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