Mark Rose

Kinda surreal to play a song I wrote with my friends 20+ years ago on a morning news show in downtown Chicago. 💙🤍 Thank you for having me, CBS Chicago—we’ll see y’all Sunday night at Edgewater Music Festival! 🎵 9 PM - North Stage 🎵 Edgewater Chamber of Commerce Spitalfield

Chicagoland friends—we hope to see y’all this weekend! 👀 Friday night, we support the legendary The Smoking Popes in Aurora at The Venue. Sunday night, we close out the North Stage at Edgewater Music Festival in Chicago (Edgewater Chamber of Commerce). 🫡

Tickets/info: spitalfield.org/tour

📷: Elena James

Happy 15th to my first solo album, Wonderful Trouble (07-05-11)! Have any memories associated with this record? I’d love to hear them below.

“Rose’s debut solo album, Wonderful Trouble (2011, self-released), has the style and emotion of a John Hughes movie soundtrack.” -Alternative Press

I collaborated with some absolutely crushing players while making this record with Sean O’Keefe! Swipe right twice for a look at the credits. ➡️➡️

Fun fact: the incredibly talented and kind Pat Sansone from Wilco/The Autumn Defense plays synth, piano, and Mellotron (tracks 1-3, 5, 6, 9, 11) and provides backing vocals (tracks 3 + 9). He also played on my follow up album, The Wild Type (2015) 🐯. What a dream to work with him!

I’d love to press a limited run of vinyl for this record—anyone interested? I think I need at least 50 (or so) folks on board to help me cover the costs. =)

xoxo

Is this Heaven? No, it’s Iowa. Perform at Good Makers Market & get some QT with Earl from Prairie Patch Farm! 🦙❤️

Iowa this weekend @ Good Makers Market!

Listen up, mother lovers: I’m running a flash-sale on Mother’s Day custom songs & I’ve got 5 slots available! A short & sweet one-minute jam, written & recorded by yours truly for a special mother in your life. ❤️ Note: Requests need to be in Fri, May 1st! Thanks so much.

https://downwrite.com/artists/markrose

Based on my chord shape, I can tell you I’m playing “Texa$ With a Dollar Sign” in this photo.

📷: Reilly's Bad Photos: March 17, 2026 - Austin, TX at Hotel Vegas 🌵 Smartpunk x Downwrite showcase

ORD ➡️ AUS 🌵See y’all tonight in Austin SXSW! Hosting + performing at a FREE Downwrite showcase at Hotel Vegas (7PM set). Thanks to Smartpunk for having me & Josh Caterer. 🖤

🍀🌵 Headed down to Austin for a SXSW showcase on TUE 3.17 w/ our pals Smartpunk at Hotel Vegas! Mark Rose (of Spitalfield) hosts a Downwrite writer’s round w/ Josh Caterer (of Smoking Popes) & Josh Berwanger (of The Anniversary). Schedule TBA next week. 🎵 🤠 🌵 Note: priority entrance for SXSW badge holders starting at 7:00 PM, open to everyone all day + night!