WNUR (Evanston, IL)
Saturday January 4, 1997 – 1:00 pmPlayed solo on WNUR radio (Northwestern Univ.)
Archive for the tag "chicago"
Moved to Chicago
Saturday November 30, 1996 – 2:29 amWell, I have moved my ass to Chicago, y’all! If you’ve arrived at this page then you know I’ve already switched Internet providers… my new e-mail address is XXX (now invalid).
GUESS WHAT… there’s a big fat feature story about my music in this week’s edition of the Chicago Reader. This is the first time I’ve done a real interview for a real newspaper with a real photographer and all. whoah…
I played my first gig in Chicago at the Empty Bottle on Friday night, it went great! I got to open for Rebecca Gates, the singer from the Spinanes, who I dig a lot. You know, she played a cool cover of the Pretenders’ "Talk Of The Town", and I was sick because I had come *this* close to playing an old country tune called "I’m The Talk Of The Town," a totally different song — it would’ve been perfect!! Maybe we oughta do it up as a split single, eh?
Chicago Reader feature
Thursday November 28, 1996 – 5:00 pmAn article that appeared in the Chicago Reader in Peter Margasak’s Post No Bills column…
Gentle Frost
After sending unsolicited demo tapes to a handful of record labels a couple of years ago, Edith Frost found herself in a strange situation. A novice songwriter, she attracted the attention of two respected labels that couldn’t have been more different: Austin’s forward-looking roots-rock Dejadisc imprint and Chicago’s indie-rock experimentalist outlet Drag City. On a gut instinct she chose the latter, but openly wonders about what might have transpired with the former. "I don’t know how it would’ve turned out," Frost says, "but I’m sure the recordings would’ve been slicker and I probably would’ve moved home to Austin instead of to Chicago." Between her eponymous four-song debut, which Drag City released this summer, and her full album, already recorded and due next April, it’s clear Frost would have done well either way: the shy 30-year-old Texan might be the most distinctive and gifted singer-songwriter to surface in the last year or two.
It’s in the can
Wednesday October 2, 1996 – 12:16 amI just got back from my first trip to Chicago, I had the time of my life! I went there to record my first album for Drag City Records, it’s in the can now and should hit the stores around March, we’re hopin’. IT’S AMAZING, Y’ALL… I got to work with some awesome musicians… Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs from Gastr del Sol, and Rick Rizzo from Eleventh Dream Day, among others.
Roctober review
Sunday June 30, 1996 – 5:00 pmA review of my first EP that appeared in the Summer 1996 (#16) issue of Roctober Magazine. (I’m not sure of the exact date.)
This is creepy and pretty, but’s it’s both a very good time and a very bad time to be a singer/songwriter gal w. guitar. Good cause they’re clocking ducats, but bad cuz you can’t open your front door w/o knocking one over these days. Hopefully this ghost music will rise above the sea of sisters.
