Rose’s Pawn Shop

With its fusion of bluegrass instrumentation and folk-rock amplification, Rose’s Pawn Shop has spent the better part of two decades perfecting a sound that’s as diverse as the band’s native Los Angeles. Their past releases offer modern day roots music shot through with electric guitar, fiddle, raw percussive stomp, and stacked vocal harmonies. It’s a sound for the heart as well as the heartland. “We’ve always resonated with people who live in remote communities and far-flung locations,” says frontman Paul Givant. “We spend a lot of our time playing mountain towns like Madrid, New Mexico, connecting to the people who, like us, are out there searching for something.”

In their recent recording, Punch-Drunk Life, the group has harnessed the crucial elements of their sound—deft picking, smooth harmonies, and terrific songwriting—to arrive at this uplifting effort, one of the more joyous recordings in recent memory.”

- Glide Magazine