Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra is a transgressive guitarist, bassist and producer who was a founding member in numerous psych, noise music, and performance art rock bands from 1974 to the present. 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, Tom Smith, Andrew W. K., Thurston Moore, Kenny Millions, Mark Kramer, Weasel Walter, Gibby Haynes, Steve Mackay, Simeon Cox, Brian McMahon, and Daniel Zebulon and has been recorded by Steve Albini and Tom Dowd. He currently runs his own studio in South Beach. Rat's band Laundry Room Squelchers currently tours worldwide and curates the International Noise Conference. Early '90s was cofounder in TLASILA with Tom Smith and in the year 1993 Spin magazine famously named Rat's group Scraping Teeth the "worst band in America".
