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By Logan Rogers on October 10, 2021 in News

Greetings!

New Shows!
Let’s get to it:

For Sale and for Members

Performances

October 29, 2004: Joe Frank in Performance – Chicago Art Institute, Chicago IL

November 21, 2004: Joe Frank in Performance – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA

September 12, 2007: “The Blue Room” – at the original Largo, Los Angeles CA

March 1, 2014: “Murdered by the Mind” – Steppenwolf, Chicago IL

Shows and Specials

Joe’s Last Show for KCRW: A Pledge Drive show with Joe LIVE announcing a new series coming in 2002

Pledge Drive: Aug 16, 1997: Joe is LIVE on air in this newly discovered Pledge Drive show

Joe Live on air: Piano Bar Theater: Before Joe was hired by KCRW, he sat in for a KCRW DJ friend

For Members Only

Feb 11, 1981: NPR Radio Experience: Joe Frank in Concert at the Shido Theater in Manhattan

2003: Joe on Third Coast Audio Festival Panel: Seeing Sound. Joe discussed his work.

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Thank you so much for your support,

Michal & Logan

December 5 2020

Exciting projects in the works

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"Joe Frank is an original whose work has helped form some of the most eccentric, dark and interesting parts of public radio's personality. "

Terry Gross, Fresh Air

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

"Frank has created a series of dead-pan radio monologues so sharp and intelligent that during the quiet bits you can almost hear God taking notes."

The UK Guardian

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"Joe Frank is a singular voice in radio. What he has done is hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere. I can't think of another radio performer who has come close to achieving this kind of alchemy."

Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker

"Joe Frank's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine