I first heard of the Pawnshop Roses from the great Justin Jones, and eventually made my way out to see them one night in Philadelphia and I was instantly impressed. These guys can flat out play. They don't play "hip" indie rock, just rock and there is never anything wrong with that, particularly when do it as well as these guys do. I dug the tunes enough to go out and recruit my man Anthony from Sonic Movement to record an interview with the band.

I ventured out to Whiskey Dix in Philadelphia earlier this summer to talk to the band over some Pabst Blue Ribbon specials and recorded the first ever Earvolution podcast. The great thing about podcasting is that since I'm not a "professional" there's no need to edit out my obvious shortcomings as an interviewer. This is basically us just sitting around, drinking and talking. Some of the chat is "dated" because I sat on this a bit during my attempt to get the band to let me work with them to promote their next record. More on that in a later post, but you can now download and listen to the interview here: PawnshopRosesInterview.mp3

You can see the band live tomorrow night at the famed Grape Street Pub in Manayunk (Philadelphia) and Saturday night at Milkboy Coffee in Ardmore where they will play with Justin and his band the Driving Rain. If you can't make it out, you can get a feel for the music and live show by checking out these two videos recently filmed at the Grape: "Get's So Hard" and "Fading Out."

Mp3: Fading Out (Live)

Labels: Pawnshop Roses