The Session Room @ HopMonk Tavern- ROSES PAWN SHOP

Door 7:30pm| Show: 8:30
Cost: ADV $8| DOS $10 | 21+

It may come as a surprise to hear the strains of Appalachian and Americana music channeled through five guys from Los Angeles, CA, but heartache, loss and regret have always been the cornerstones of great music, and this city has more than its share. In a town better known for porn stars and face lifts, anything as authentic and heartfelt as roses's pawn shop is a pleasant surprise. With an arsenal of guitars, banjo, thumping upright bass, fiddle and drums, delivering neo-classical-sounding melodies and lyrics, their sound is a wholesome mishmash of creek mud, rusty nails and your mom's cookin'. It's sincere, straight-forward and sexy as fuck, effortlessly combining such disparate musical styles as rock, country, bluegrass, and punk to create an incomprehensibly smooth and accessible sound for true believers and skeptics alike. 
They confront traditional country music themes of loss, lamentation, and redemption, with a couple of drinking songs for good measure. Sure, they're borrowing pages from the books of Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash, but rose's pawn shop takes those pages, tears them up and sets them on fire with three and four part vocal harmonies and lyrics that'll break your heart. Something happens when you hear these songs. No matter how low you've sunk, something in the music finds you. It picks you up and carries you home. 

As of Spring 2014, rose's pawn shop has a new album in the can, produced and mixed by Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphy's). The band is working on potential release dates now, so stay tuned!

For more information visit http://www.hopmonk.com/novato/music-and-events/ All ticketed shows are standing-room only with limited seating, unless otherwise designated.