Rose’s Pawn Shop Friends and Family,

We have some very important and exciting news to share with you.  

It’s a very busy and exciting time here at Rose’s Pawn Shop. We just started our 2 month Thursday night residency at The Redwood Bar in downtown Los Angeles and we’ve been writing many new songs to showcase during our weekly shows there. And we’re beginning work on a Southwest and Colorado tour for February and a large national tour next summer.  

However the most exciting item on our agenda currently is we are scheduled to go into the studio the first week of January with the amazing veteran music producer and engineer Ethan Allen. Ethan has produced, worked with and recorded a large collection of amazing artists. Emmylou Harris, REM, Patty Griffin, Daniel Lanois, Gram Rabbit, The 88, to name a few. It’s an understatement to say that we here at Rose’s Pawn Shop are extremely excited to have him on board for our new album.

We anticipate that we will have the album completed between March and May of 2010 and can’t wait for you all to hear all the great new tunes.

It’s no mistake that we inform you of this great news at the beginning of the holiday season. The season of giving. As you can imagine putting out a great music album takes a lot of hard work, focus, dedication, and MONEY. And it’s this last point we’d like to bring to your attention today.

We take great pride in being a hard working independent band, but as such we don’t have at our disposal all the resources that some of our big label musical compatriots have to get their songs out to the public. In order to raise the amount of capital we need to make this next Rose’s Pawn Shop album everything it can be, we’re reaching out and asking for help from you, our Rose’s Pawn Shop Family, Friends, and Fans.

For recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, album replication/packaging, and publicity we’re looking at a minimum budget of around $22000. A pretty nice chunk of change that we currently do not have in the RPS coffers.

We realize that with the state of our current economy it may be the worst time ever to reach out and ask for your financial support. However, any small (or large) contribution can make all the difference.  Understand, that with the amount that we’ve already raised, if just over 1000 fans buy a pre-order CD for 15 dollars, WE'D MEET OUR GOAL!

If you feel in your good natured and generous heart that you are able and would like to help us raise these funds, we offer you the following 9 EXCITING options to help us reach our goal and deliver you a fantastic album:

1.       $15 – Pre-sale copy of the new album. You can purchase an advanced copy of the album before it’s out. Once the album is ready for release we’ll mail it to you first before it hits the stores and the internet.

2.       $20 – Throw in a generous extra $5 for good measure and we’ll send you a pre-order copy of the CD and 2 Rose’s Pawn Shop stickers.

3.       $25 - Signed pre-order copy of the CD and 2 Rose’s Pawn Shop stickers. We’ll mail you a copy of the new album signed by each band member before it hits the stores and the internet.

4.       $50 – Signed pre-order copy of the CD, a Rose’s Pawn Shop T-Shirt and 2 Rose’s Pawn Shop stickers.

5.       $100 – Signed pre-order copy of the new CD, Rose’s Pawn Shop T-Shirt, 2 Rose’s Pawn Shop stickers and a personalized handwritten letter from the Rose’s Pawn Shop band member of your choice.

6.       $1000 – Signed pre-order copy of the new CD, Rose’s Pawn Shop T-Shirt, as many Rose’s Pawn Shop stickers as you’d like, and voucher for 1 hour private performance by Rose’s Pawn Shop for your(private party, wedding, bat mitzvah, etc),  -or- 5 years of 2 free tickets to any Rose’s Pawn Shop show nationwide.

7.       $2000- Signed pre-order copy of the new CD, Rose’s Pawn Shop T-Shirt, as many Rose’s Pawn Shop stickers as you’d like, and voucher for a 3 hour private performance for your (private party, wedding, bat mitzvah, etc),  -or- 10 years of 2 free tickets to any Rose’s Pawn Shop nationwide.

8.     Donate any denomination of your choice toward the cause. $1, $10, $20, $22,000. You decide what you can give to support Rose’s Pawn Shop and independent music.

9.       Become an investor in the album. Make a profit from your investment in Rose’s Pawn Shop. Please contact us via email at paulgivant@yahoo.com to find out more information about this exciting business opportunity.

You can make your generous and secure pre-order purchase of the album and/or donation through our web site here:

http://www.rosespawnshop.com/html/store.html

If you would like to send cash or check please E-mail us at paulgivant@yahoo.com for mailing address.

Thank you very much for all your love and support of Rose’s Pawn Shop and independent music. We appreciate you!

Happy Holidays one and all!

Love,

Rose’s Pawn Shop

www.rosespawnshop.com
www.myspace.com/rosespawnshop

www.facebook.com.rosespawnshop

Hey Friends,

Great news! In addition to our new songs and our new thongs, Rose’s Pawn Shop will be back out on the road this summer and may be coming to a city near you. Below we’ve listed our initial tour dates. More to follow. Start marking your calendars and making sure you can get the next day off work. We’re going to party you hard! Very very hard people. Its gonna be a damn blast!

If you see that we’re coming to your town and you want to help out Rose’s Pawn Shop in any way with things like show promotion, street team, housing of the band, providing meals for the very hungry and malnourished band, providing legal and/or mental health services for band members, providing pedicure and foot massage( i joke, but seriously, if you want to..), or any other services please contact us asap. We’d love to get you involved and we’ll love you forever!

If you don’t see your city listed keep checking back or send us an email and yell at us to come to your city. Some dates are still available and flexible. Have van. Will travel..

Love every last lovely one of ya’s. See ya this summer.

Tender Regards,

Rose’s Pawn Shop

xoxo 

July 2, 2009 10:00P Coyote Joe’s - Prescott, Arizona

July 3, 2009 10:00P Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge - Flagstaff, Arizona

July 4, 2009 8:00P Mormon Lake Lodge - Mormon Lake, Arizona

July 5, 2009 3:00P Private Event - Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 5, 2009 9:00P Atomic Cantina - Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 6, 2009 9:00P Corazon - Santa Fe, New Mexico

July 7, 2009 7:00P Santa Fe Bandstand 2009 - Santa Fe, New Mexico

July 8, 2009 10:00P The Blue Note - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

July 9, 2009 9:00P Mercury Lounge - Tulsa, Oklahoma

July 15, 2009 8:00P Barley’s Taproom - Knoxville, Tennessee

July 16, 2009 9:00P Jack of the Wood - Asheville, North Carolina

July 17, 2009 10:00P The Garage - Winston-Salem, North Carolina

July 18, 2009 9:00P Fellini’s 9 - Charlottesville, Virginia

July 19, 2009 8:00P Devils Backbone Brewing Company - Roseland, Virginia

July 20, 2009 9:00P Rodeo Bar - New York, New York

July 24, 2009 4:00P FloydFest 8 - Hill Holler Stage - Floyd, Virginia

July 25, 2009 10:45P FloydFest 8 - Garden Stage - Floyd, Virginia

July 28, 2009 9:00P Hi Ho Lounge - New Orleans, Louisiana

July 30, 2009 9:00P City Tavern-  Dallas, Texas

July 31, 2009 10:00P Hoot’s Pub - Amarillo, Texas

August 1, 2009 9:00P The Mineshaft Tavern - Madrid, New Mexico

Hi Everybody!

If you're just dyin to get your hands on some RPS and wonder, "Where in heck fire can I find these boys online...I need 'em NOW!"

Well, here's a list of over 40 places Rose's Pawn Shop is available for download, and more are to be added soon:

Apple iTunes
Sony Connect
MSN Music
Rhapsody
HearMusic
Arvato
AudioLunchbox
Bitmunk
BuyMusic
Choice Records
Daiki
Destra
DigiPie
DigitalKiosk
Emusic
GreatIndieMusic
Inprodicon
Intent Media Works
Interia
Liquid Digital Media
LoudEye-OD2
MOD Systems
MP3-Extension
MP3tunes
MPGreek
MusicIsHere
MusicNet
MusicNow
NextRadio
PassAlong
PayPlay
PeerImpact
PlayIndies
Puretracks
QTRnote
Ruckus
USEN
iSound

And of course, check our Web site for FREE downloads, lincluding wallpaper and an old-school homemade recording of Deep Red Clay:

http://www.rosespawnshop.com/html/downloads.html 

Online you can purchase at Miles of Music, CD Baby and on our lovely Web site...yes.

Hey kids!

Listen to X Country, station XM 12, on XM Satellite Radio…they’ve added ALL THREE songs from our demo into rotation. Tons of thanks to Jessie Scott for her support!

Here's a link to their site: http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=12

We’re not sure which program will play us or when, so you’ll have to listen to everything! If you hear us, please send us a message and tell us when and what program just in case we miss it.