'Missing Scenes', Hotel Brotherhood's first full album, is now available at Waterloo Records in Austin, TX, and at the Marfa Book Company, in Marfa.  Soon available in Baltimore as well. 

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/in-stores-this-week-04-07-09-1.1646486
Hotel Brotherhood
Missing Scenes
As independent music drags its feet through this digital age, a Web site or MySpace page has become vastly more important than a band’s physical location. An unending flow of yet-unheard music squeezes out of phone lines and Internet connections from every corner of the country, inundating any pair of eager ears with a decent computer. Does a band’s sound reflect the place it calls home anymore?
For Hotel Brotherhood, a four-piece that has made Marfa, Texas, its home, the answer is a resounding yes. Hotel Brotherhood’s first full-length album, Missing Scenes, is painted with the same earth tones and big skies that make up the 3,800 square miles of Presidio County.
Lead singer and songwriter Ross Cashiola planned a three-month escape to West Texas from Chicago to find inspiration and write some new songs for a future album.
Cashiola found more inspiration than he anticipated, and those three months quickly became three years and three albums’ worth of material. Missing Scenes is the first collection of these songs to be recorded.
Written mostly in Marfa and recorded mostly in Chicago, Hotel Brotherhood’s first outing meanders through 12 tracks with an accessible and organic sound.
The songs flow seamlessly with the aid of tasteful reverb and simple instrumentation, creating a sound much like early My Morning Jacket or a quieter Neil Young.
None of the songs have a real chorus, but Cashiola’s lyrics manage to stay fresh and familiar at the same time, like the miles of open highway between Interstate Highway 10 and Marfa, with their slow and changing scenery.
Missing Scenes could comfortably take on the roll of soundtrack to any number of highways or cities across the country, but it is most at home where it was born: wide-open West Texas.
Missing Scenes is available at Waterloo Records on Lamar Boulevard.
— Lawrence Lander

I have heard that there is a small write up of a show that I opened for Robert Earl Keen in January at Ballroom Marfa in the newest (and 2nd to last) issue of No Depression magazine. It’s in the "Miked" section. Too bad they decided to close up shop. On to newer things.

so the cd i recorded down here in marfa is now officially printed and ready to go. i have them for sale on cdbaby.com. they are 11 bucks.
The listing is : Ross Cashiola North of the Bees

just played a show on tuesday with good friends arbouretum from baltimore, and new friends David karsten daniels and his posse from Chapel hill, as they made there way across the vast desert landscape that separates Phoenix and austin, tim johnson and I set up the show at ray's in less than a day pretty much, gory let us bum his PA, they(bands) got a late start due to no daylight savings in Az, and finally arrived just as i was finishing up a short set. lo and behold lots of people showed up and gave generously to the hat I passed around. eventually the rock commenced and the people were happy. It was a good night in marfa all around.

this version of the hotel brotherhood has a lot of free time.+ this version of the hotel brotherhood has seen a major jump in myspacesters= when immersed with free time you are bound to become more popular amongst contemporaries. see that's all you have to do. oh also our website is back up and running.