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Brooklyn-based Typhoid Rosie is led by comedienne-turned-singer-songwriter Rosie Rebel and her drumming husband, Phil Wartell. For most of their relationship, Rosie made comedy and Phil made music. it wasn’t until 2011 that Rosie stumbled upon a hidden song-writing talent while taking a mandatory music class at Columbia University. In that same year, she formed Typhoid Rosie, graduated from Columbia with honors, and married Phil. In 2012, the two released their debut, The Music Album.
Rosie began writing new songs for a second album, but in October of 2013, double tragedy struck: her last remaining grandparent passed away, and on the day of the wake, her mother suffered a severe aneurysm and died that same night. After a year of crippling depression, Rosie began to write music again in the middle of 2014 . Phil rounded up a band that consisted of Justin Rothberg and Matt Kursmark on guitars, and his brother Dean Wartell on bass. Last year, the five entered Seaside Lounge Studios in Brooklyn to record their upcoming LP, Hearts Bleed Goodbye, which came out on March 25, 2016 (Chris Potter and Steve Capecci play guitar and bass, respectively, in the live band, which also includes Leah Farmer on keyboards).
Given this background, one might expect something either comic or tragic, but Hearts Bleed Goodbye is in fact seriously rocking and joyfully catchy indie-pop, reminiscent of new wave/power-pop acts like The Cars, Blondie, The Go Go’s and Joan Jett and The Blackhearts. Get up on your feet and crank it!
