Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra is a transgressive guitarist, bassist and producer. He was a founding member in numerous psych, noise music, and performance art rock bands since 1974.

In 1979 he co-founded a recording studio in Miami where he has recorded Blowfly, Mecca Normal, Harry Pussy, Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, The Eat and hundreds of South Florida locals. Rat has worked with artists Robert Pollard, Don Fleming, Andrew W. K., Thurston Moore, Kenny Millions, Kramer, Weasel Walter, Gibby Haynes, Steve Mackay, Simeon Cox, Brian McMahon, and has been recorded by Steve Albini and Tom Dowd.

 Rat currently runs his own studio in the South Beach. Rat’s band Laundry Room Squelchers currently tours world-wide and curates the International Noise Conference.

As legend has it, one night a patron fed up with Rat’s incessant rumble stormed the stage at Churchill’s Pub and put a gun to his head. “Go ahead and pull the trigger,’ Rat told him, ’cause I ain’t stopping.” 

 In 1993, Spin magazine famously named Rat’s group Scraping Teeth the “worst band in America”. We wanted to go behind the scenes with Rat and learn what he was thinking when his band was singled out for such an honor!

See us in the studio: https://www.facebook.com/buzz.fleischman

at 10AM Monday Dec 2nd or go to: http://www.joltradio.org