Doors at 6:00 PM - join us for some beers inside and outside before the show kicks off at 7:30!

Seating is General Admission - please do not leave empty seats between you and others, all seats will be filled and we will be asking people to move together to fill seats.

We are NOT BYOF, there will be no tables, please do not bring food or outside beverages (water, soda).

We encourage you to buy beer during the show!

Please arrive with everyone you want to sit with as it is easier for seating.

Please bring your ticket to be scanned!

Flounder's House shows are 21+ only

Flounder Brewing

2 Clerico Lane, Building 4

Hillsborough, New Jersey

For two decades, Rose's Pawn Shop have evolved their version of modern-day American roots music. It's an anthemic sound that's taken the group from their hometown of Los Angeles — where frontman Paul Givant formed the band as a bluegrass-inspired act, making room for punky tempos and fiddle solos — to venues across the country, where their sound grew to encompass the sweep of rock & roll, the sonics of folk music, and the storytelling of country. 

With American Seams, the band's fifth studio release, Rose's Pawn Shop celebrate that wide-ranging sound. Recorded during a series of live-in-the-studio performances, it's a raw, reflective album about stepping into a new stage of life, reflecting upon all the lessons learned and mistakes made along the way. For Givant — a journeyman songwriter who's weathered the twists and turns of the music industry, unwaveringly dedicating himself to a project that's earned high marks from Rolling Stone (who called the band's work "a blast of 21st century pickin'-party music") and GQ (who praised their "knee-slapping bluegrass-y twang") — it's also a chance to look back while still moving forward. "I can see all the water under the bridge now," he says. "There are some beautiful things and hard things to look back on, but they've all brought me to this point."

When Rose's Pawn Shop last stepped into a recording studio, they were creating Punch-Drunk Life, an album that not only reinvigorated the band's career, but also pushed their music toward indie-folk-country territory. For a group of SoCal road warriors who'd already played everywhere from the fishing villages of Alaska to the mountain towns of the American Southwest, Punch-Drunk Life felt like a new destination. American Seams, on the other hand, feels both fresh and familiar, marking a full-circle return to the folky, frills-free sounds that helped launch the band's career during the early 2000s. 

"It's a bit of a throwback to our earlier work," explains Givant. "We're getting back into the roots of folk, bluegrass, and country, without forgetting our rock influences. It's a fusion of the different places we've been, and it sounds like our live shows. It's raw. It's real."

It's real, indeed. Produced by Grammy nominee Eric Corne, American Seams was tracked in four days at Love Street Sound, the L.A. recording studio owned by Robby Krieger of The Doors. "It was important to me that the musicians played together in real time, capturing their performances simultaneously," Corne says. "I really wanted to showcase the chemistry and camaraderie of Rose's Pawn Shop as a great live band, which they are. Even as we added additional instrumentation, I never wanted to lose the voice of any band member in the arrangement and mix." With contributions from guitarist Zachary Ross, upright bassist Stephen Andrews (Givant's longest-running bandmate, as well as his partner in the side project The Contraptionists), fiddle player Jesse Olema, and two different drummers — Grammy winner Deacon Marrquin and the hard-hitting, heavy-grooving Matt Lesser — American Seams is a snapshot of a band firing on all cylinders, whittled into sharp shape by their own touring schedule.

"Many elements of American Seams harken back to earlier Rose’s Pawn Shop, but we still found new territory to broaden our sound," says Andrews, who joined the lineup in 2009. "Working together during preproduction, it was obvious we were tapping into some '70s blues/country vibes on tracks like 'Darken My Door' and 'That Ain’t No Way To Get You Off My Mind,' allowing room for new instrumentation like baritone guitar and electric bass."

With its nostalgic fiddle riffs and amplified crunch, the album's title track builds a bridge between the band's own past and present. "The fiddle line feels like something you might've heard in the 1800s, and the rest around of the song is built around it," Givant says. "It's a nod to old-time America, but it's about the present. It's about what we've lost, what we've forgotten, and where we are right now." The highlights don't stop there. On "The Summer's Over," Givant's bandmates stack their voices into thick harmonies during every chorus, singing about the passage of time and the fading of an earlier stage of life. "What If We Run" is a cinematic folk song that makes room for swelling verses and kinetic refrains. And throughout the rest of the record, the band crisscrosses the borderlines between genre and generation, bringing color to those grey areas, molding different sounds together. 

"Our music is a patchwork of American styles," Givant says. "We have country, rock, bluegrass, and folk — all sorts of American musical influences, and they all go into the Rose's Pawn Shop sound. We liked that visual, which is why we named the record American Seams."

It's been 20 years since Rose's Pawn Shop played their first show, and much has changed since then. Trends have shifted. Bandmates have come and gone. Families have been built. Side projects have been launched. Yet Rose's Pawn Shop still persevere, continuing to expand both their artistry and their audience with each record, creating a soundtrack to the ebb and flow of American life. This is resilient roots music, grounded in sharp songwriting and the hard-won experience of a band that's dedicated itself to the long haul.