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Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lily McQueen started performing at her college upstate in an all-female country band.  The girls performed covers from artists like Bonnie Raitt and The Band along with original ballads.  Lily returned to New York City where she combined her love for the supernova female musicians of the 70s and 80s with the radio pop of her youth.  Over the past three years, between Los Angeles and home, she developed a repertoire that explores nostalgia’s ability to alter our memories.  The result is her 2015 self-titled EP full of anthemic songs that bring us back to electric teenage nights, blasting the car radio in the summer, and lost loves.  Lily McQueen will release her debut album early 2017 on Concierge Records.

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New York City electro-pop outfit Frances Rose consists of Sarah Frances and Michelle Rose Cagianese. As dual vocalists, songwriters, and producers, the sisters are known for a dynamic sound which deftly blends a wide range of influences including R&B, indie rock, grunge, and contemporary chart-pop. Growing up in the rural Hudson River Valley, Sarah and Michelle began their journey with classical instruments at age seven, with Sarah learning violin and Michelle the cello; blossomed into a songwriting duo as pop and indie-obsessed teenagers.

“Romantinc-grunge-tinged electro-pop” -Nylon

“Haunting pop” -Paper Magazine

“A-list pop” -MTV Iggy


Photography by Eric Mooney

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State of Mind is the debut album from Brooklyn alt-pop artist FRAME, aka Caitlin Frame. The record encapsulates the last few years of an 8-year relationship and marriage, focusing on the breaking points; polyamory, jealousy, new love, and the gray area at the end of a relationship.

Caitlin is a multidisciplinary musician, composer, engineer, and producer who recorded much of her debut album in various bedrooms and studios herself–performing much of the instrumentation while sculpting and shaping the sonic landscape of the record. Her approach harkens back to the celebrated (for both its glamour and experimentation) era of late 70s and early 80s recording when digital technology was considered controversial and the stuff of pioneers–not the status quo. Outside the studio, Caitlin is strongly connected to the LGBTQ and feminist art and music scenes in her hometown of New York and is a sought after bassist and vocalist for a diverse array of other projects. Her own band, the eponymous FRAME, in all its anthemic, emotive, fury merges the post-punk and pop-loving heydays of Factory Records and Sub Pop. FRAME will begin touring the US late 2017 and into 2018 in support of State Of Mind.

FRAME began as a way for Caitlin to write under a moniker that felt more androgynous. As a classically trained percussionist, piano player and vocalist, she routinely played many of the instruments while engineering and producing State of Mind herself. Her biggest ally in the studio was an instrument she was the least versed in — the bass — which helped her utilize her love of polyrhythm and melodic interplay to create the sound and vibe of her debut.

On the disco-inspired, compelling lead-single “State of Mind” Caitlin conveys “I’m sorry for my state of mind / I wish that I / Could tell you it was just for the moment” – knowing that she’s not sorry for the way she feels, and that she’s ultimately happy about it. Asked to describe the following line “Forever, forever in my eyes / Forever in this moment / Never asking why / Never asking” she said she looked into the eyes of her ex-wife and in an instant knew they would always be linked together, and she didn’t need to question their relationship. In the ballad-like “One of a Kind” we hear a more delicate and introspective side of FRAME – “One of a kind / Is that what we really are / Or just two lovers / Taking it too far”.