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I'M WITH THE BAND!

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We are eagerly anticipating this HBO "dramady", "I'm With The Band" about a member of our Sin City family, Miss Pamela Des Barres! The story below is from rollingstone.com:




She and Him singer and (500) Days of Summer actress Zooey Deschanel will essentially merge the two aspects of her career by starring as the title character in a pilot for HBO’s upcoming dramedy I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Deadline.com reports.The series will be based on the 1987 memoir of the same name by former groupie Pamela Des Barres, with Deschanel playing the role of the author.

In the memoir, Des Barres reminisces about her adventures in ’60s/’70s-era rock & roll, starting out as a nanny for Frank Zappa before eventually becoming the love interest of Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page. Des Barres was actually a member of a group of groupies that labeled themselves “the GTOs,” which likely served as the inspiration for the “Band-Aides” in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. To bring this whole thing full circle, Deschanel also appeared in Almost Famous, but played the young reporter’s cool older sister and not as a Band-Aide.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, in addition to building on her acting resume, Mrs. Ben Gibbard and M. Ward will release She and Him’s Volume 2 on March 23rd. 



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AUSTIN COLLINS...Wrong Control out March 2!!

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Watch the "making of" Wrong Control here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3OLcwydOE

Also visit www.austincollins.net to preorder and receive $2 off!
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Help Save the Cactus Cafe! UT Town Hall Mtg TONIGHT!

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Share your thoughts and responses regarding the decision to close the Cactus Cafe. And please join/follow/visit the other sites!
Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Cactus-Cafe/465868395603
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/SaveTheCactus
Website:
http://www.savethecactuscafe.org

WHAT TO DO:
1) EMAIL Board of Regents http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=473112870256
2) ATTEND UT Town Hall Mtg http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=308611563973
3) COMMENT for Pres Powers http://www.utexas.edu/know/2010/01/28/town_hall_meeting/
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SHURMAN CD Release Party @ Continental Club FRIDAY, Jan 29!

General NewsOK OK - NO MORE WAITING!!!! It's finally here and IN STORES! Still Waiting for the Sunset is available for ALL of your friends and family.... and for those of you who have been SHURMAN supporters and bought Waiting For the Sunset, well, the band kindly added some new songs and there is also VINYL available at their shows!



Please join us for a great evening of music, fun and celebration! We look forward to seeing you there!
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Sin City Social Club HAPPY HOUR TONIGHT @ Maria's Taco Xpress!

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Starting this week and running every Thursday after that, Sin City hosts Ruby James Happy Hour over at Maria's! Maria has a new full dinner menu + happy hour food and drink specials til 7:30pm AND Miss Ruby along with Dony Wynn and Danny B Harvey will serenade your winter blues away! Afterwards, we can all head over to The Broken Spoke for some Jesse Dayton!

Nice way to connect with each other and sort out our weekend plans don't ya think?!

"You won't find much more character and rustic charm in the Austin area than at this little taco joint in S. Austin. A hangout for musicians, Taco Xpress is run by Maria Corbalan, who has transformed the small building and adjoining patio into a folk art shrine, not to mention one of the best taquerias in the city"
- statesman.com
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Sin City Social Club's Los Angeles HO Ho Ho Down Party this SUNDAY!!!

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OK all you Los Angeles people! A special TREAT this coming Sunday, December 20.....
The SIN CITY SOCIAL CLUB HO HO HO DOWN at MOLLY MALONE'S!
As you know, Molly's was the home of Sweethearts of the Rodeo for six INCREDIBLE years and MAMA SHI is COMING HOME! Well, really she is already there and the love is a flowin'...we're getting reports back from EVERYONE about Shilah spottings and people are downright GIDDY!
So put on your best sparkly Holiday wear and get yer butts on down to the only Christmas party worth going to! You'll laugh, smile, dance and be merry with some of the greatest people in LA!
Now read on friends, read on...........


"I'm kickin' up my heels here in LA this week and can't wait to see you all on Sunday night!   We always have loads of special guests and I'm giddy to tell you James Intveld, Frankie Lee & Cindy from Dead Rock West, 29 Mules, Austin Hanks, Gia Ciambotti, Bobby Joyner, Tim Jones (along with some of the Truth & Salvago Co)  and Jimmy Thrill are all on deck to celebrate with us!   Don't forget - SHURMAN goes on at 8pm!   Get your dancin' shoes on  ;)  and please share with your peeps!   This is fixin' to be the best party in town!   xo Shilah"
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS from SIN CITY!

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An early Holiday present for all our constituents!!! Happy Holidays from your friends at Sin City Social Club and thank you to the mad camera skills of Mister Glen Brown!
 
www.youtube.com/sincitysocialclub
Raul Malo at Antones, December 4, 2009
More video clips being added daily so don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube page!!!!
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Baby It's COLD OUTSIDE! Brrr.....But this month's Newsletter is certain to WARM you up!

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Yep, It's true.....SNOW in AUSTIN, TX! The news has been building it up all week - crazy snowstorm coming on Friday (the sky is falling, the sky is falling!) - BEWARE! I kid you not - businesses were "preparing" for the "possibility" of snowfall and decided to close today....schools let out at 11:45 am so kidlets could get home in time for the impending snowman making and snowball fights..... Well, it's mid-afternoon and I keep stealing glances out my windows waiting for one of these magical white snowflakes. Drats. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. It's even getting SUNNY! Ugh. There have been a flurry of Facebook reports from some Sin City friends here in Austin and yes, there have been a few snowflakes around the area but apparently just not this far South.......... Saying all this, we DO know how we will be staying TOASTY warm this evening....ANTONE'S! YAY! An Intimate Evening with Raul Malo and special guest Ruby James....what a way to kick off the weekend! While there, we can discuss with our friends the incredible wealth of friends who were nominated for Grammy's this year AND we can finish making plans for our roadtrip tomorrow to College Station for the Junk Gypsy's Holiday Hoedown! If you haven't seen the latest newsletter (send us an email at shilah@sincitysocialclub.com if you would like to subscribe!) we mentioned that those awesome Gypsy's have offered FREE SHIPPING for any order over $45 from their website www.gyspyville.com if you type in the promo code: SIN CITY.........

Plus there is more great stuff in this month's newsletter - I will post it here (please note that the contest's have ended and winners have been picked - sign up for the next one so you don't miss your chance!!):

I'm giddy today so bear with me!

Maybe I've had too much coffee this morning or maybe I'm still reeling from the great night of music over at The Saxon Pub last night... I left my house to go see Will and Charlie Sexton play with their Mystic Knights of The Sea project... fantastic and was lured into staying when I saw that Uncle Lucius was playing right after... I've been diggin' their record for a while now but had never seen them live!  Dig it...rock, soul, horns ... made me happy!   Then a band that I'd only heard of thru Ruby James but didn't know much about came on... they're called DEADMAN and my friend Julie and I were smitten by the time they were half way thru their first song.   Reminded me of The Band ... frontman Steven Collins has wonderful phrasing and a great presence... sweet harmonies, 6 piece band with a B3 and I love the feel and drive that Kyle (drummer) brings ... I'm so used to going out and seeing bands that I already know, it feels rare and beautiful to me to go out and stumble upon something brand new that totally inspires ...  I can't wait to see them again!

So many things to share with our peeps that I'll have to give you the rundown of what we've been doing around these parts and what you'll find in this here newsletter!  

* TICKET GIVEAWAYS  - Yeah, that's right, we're giving away tickets and other assorted goodies to see SON VOLT &  TODD SNIDER in LA and RAUL MALO  (Austin). 
* SHURMAN are heading out west with a van full of rock n roll, new vinyl AND a some HOLIDAY TUNES!
* SIN CITY HOLIDAY Ho Ho Ho Down Party Announced in LA!
* HONKY TONK HOLIDAY SHOPPING with THE JUNK GYPSY's - special FREE shipping for Sin City Social Club members!


Ahh...let the good times roll!

FRIDAY, 12/4
KGSR and Antone's present
An Intimate evening with RAUL MALO
with special guest RUBY JAMES
7pm

RAUL MALO is taking some time out of his recording schedule to come play a benefit this Friday night for the Christmas Bureau of Austin at Antones this Friday night!   This is a rare solo acoustic gig and we're getting goosebumps thinking about hearing man with the golden voice sing his songs in such an intimate way.  I swear I can see Erika swooning all the way across town!  If THAT wasn't enough to be tickled about... RUBY JAMES is going to open the show with WILL SEXTON!    

I've got TWO pair of tickets to give away to see this show on Friday!   
THE FIRST TWO people who email me (shilah@sincitymarketing.com) with the correct answer to the following question will win tickets!
"Who produced Ruby James forthcoming album Happy Now?" 
PLEASE put "RAUL MALO" in the subject line and include your full name + phone number in email so we can contact you via phone if need be!


Doors @ 7pm
For additional info. and to purchase tickets visit
http://www.antones.net

p.s. - for those living in San Antonio you can catch Raul tomorrow night (12/3) at Casbeers!

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FOR THOSE FRIENDS LIVING IN LA... we're pretty excited for you!


Unless you've been living under a rock, you know how good the new SON VOLT record is and how rarely we get to see them play!   We've got THREE PAIR OF TICKETS to give away to some lucky SON VOLT FANS!   

WIN TICKETS NOW!
JAY FARRAR was one of the highlights at our Return to Sin City; Tribute to Gram Parsons in 2004.   He played 2 songs at those tributes... NAME THEM.   The first THREE people that email me the correct answers will win the tickets!    Please put SON VOLT TICKETS in the subject line and include your full name as it appears on your drivers license AND a telephone number where we can reach you if need be.   Must be 18+   Winners will be notified by email and your tickets will be at will call the day of the show!

AND THEN God created TODD SNIDER...the great alt country contrarian! 
The self-proclaimed "tree huggin', peace lovin', pot smokin', porn watchin', lazy ass hippie,"  refuses to get off the road and he too is coming to play at THE EL REY!   He's one of our favorite story tellers and I've just about peed my pants at his shows...   He's been pretty busy this year with a new album on Yep Roc and a mad touring schedule (he played Austin City Limits and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in the same weekend), he premiered the "Volcano Radio Hour " a 60 min. radio show with songs, stories and phone calls AND he's been working on a forthcoming book called "Almost Everything I Say Is True" ...  (and I thought WE were busy!)

We're thankful to our friends at Goldenvoice who have given us FIVE pairs of tickets + T shirts and CD's so that we can make you happy!  
Ahh...we love to give! 

WIN NOW
I can't think of anything sarcastic or witty enough to make you do to WIN this package so I'm gonna make it easy.   THE FIRST 5 of you that email me your 3 favorite Todd Snider songs or stories will win the packages.   Be sure to put BEER RUN in the subject line of the email and include your FULL NAME (as it appears on your drivers license) and a phone number in case we need to reach you!   Must be 18+.  Winners will be notified by email and your tickets will be at will call the day of the show!

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You'd better not pout and better not cry...
SHURMAN
 IS COMING TO TOWN!

  ... our favorite lil road dogs are packin' up the van and heading out west for the holidays!     They've got loads of merch and VINYL for "Still Waiting For The Sunset" which is available digitally now but  won't be available on CD til January of 2010.    Did you happen to see the review on the AntiMusic website?! 

"Still Waiting for the Sunset is a smoking 12-song tour de force that blends the best of heartland rock with a deep grounding in the finest country traditions...one finds everything that a fan of real American music with a Southern accent holds dear: songs about life, love, people and places that speak to the human heart and soul with sincerity and conviction, and potent music that can lift the spirit as well as drown any sorrows"   to read the rest of the review click here -  http://www.antimusic.com/news/09/nov/re19Rock_-_Country_Collide_On_Shurmans_New_Album.shtml


They've also pressed up a limited edition holiday EP that you'll only be able to get at their live shows!  I've been getting in the spirit here listening to rockin versions of SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN with JESSE DAYTON, RUN RUN RUDOLF, + two beautiful originals (CHRISTMAS MORNING and SANTA YOU CAN SKIP ME) that you're gonna want in your holiday music collection!




TOUR DATES:
12/4   Oklahoma City, OK       The Wormy Dog Saloon
12/5    Clovis, NM              City Limits
12/9 Silver Cliff, CO            Silver Dome Saloon
12/10    Colorado Springs, CO    tba
12/11    Denver, CO              Bluebird Theater w/ THE RAILBENDERS!  "super sexy xmas show and cd release party"
12/12  Aspen, CO               Bad Billy's
12/13   Colorado Springs, CO    tba
12/15    Denver, CO              Cheeky Monk  ** FREE **  4-man acoustical jam!
12/18    Tempe, AZ               The Sail Inn "Shurman's Merry Cruzmas Party" sponsored by Cruz Tequila (uh oh!)
12/20    Los Angeles, CA         Molly Malone's   - Sin City's Holiday Ho Down! 

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SIN CITY HOLIDAY HO DOWN 

with THE SIN CITY ALL STARS
SHURMAN and special guests!

SUNDAY DECEMBER 20th ...
 MOLLY MALONES
 LOS ANGELES, CA


Cause Country Just Ain't Country Anymore...

Close to 10 years ago, we started a fun lil night called SWEETHEARTS of THE RODEO that ultimately launched this "social club" of ours and where the Sin City All Stars were born!   

We brought outlaw country to the tiny front room at Molly's and thru the years had many drunken crazy nights filled with friends from all over ...We used to say it was like NASCAR people would come out to see the wrecks just as much as they would come for the music!   The All Stars aren't exactly "famous" but they've sure got some famous friends and we've had the likes of Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Jim Lauderdale, Gary Louris, members of Lone Justice,  Jessi Colter, Shooter Jennings and a whole slew of amazing artists get up on stage with Bryson... I'm surprised no one got seriously hurt in those 6 amazing years!    

Well somehow the stars have aligned as MAMA SHI and SHURMAN will be in town and we're dusting off the boots of THE SIN CITY ALL STARS and gathering some special guests to come raise a little hell during the holidays!   

More details to follow but mark your calendars NOW cause we want to see you!

Sunday, December 20th
7pm - midnight  
show starts at 8pm!
$8

"Raise your glasses and lower your expectations" 
- Bryson Jones


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NEED SOME COOL YULE GIFTS?! 




 If you're in Austin... come join us for the Junk Gypsy HonkyTonk Holidays Roadshow and Sale out in College Station, TX this weekend.   Erika and I will be packin' up the reindeer and heading out to get the rest of our shopping done!  YEAH!  

http://www.gypsyville.com

The rest of you can find cool stuff online and because you're members of the Social Club - you can get FREE SHIPPING on orders over $45!   

Here's some info about the event this weekend and a taste of some of the things you can find both online and at the sale!

CaLLin' aLL honky-tonk outLaWs, dancehaLL dREamers and RoWdy FRieNDs! Come out for your ONCE-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of the LegendaRY DiXie ChiCKEn and GET ALL THE GOOD GypSY Stuff just in time for CHriStmas!!!!

THIS AIN't YER GrANNY's ChRIStmas MArKEt!!!! It's an OuTlaw RoaDshoW filled with historical DiXie ChiCKen memorabilia, JuNK GyPSy goods, and lots o' good times! BEER, FOOD and MUSIC!!!

***FrOM originAL DIXIE CHiCKEN domino tables and pool TaBLES, from BeeR SIGNs to CHUCK wAGONS, it's a monumental ChANCE to have a little of the DIXIE CHiCKEN legacy with you wherever you roam!** PLuS tonZ o' JUNK GypSY GOODS! christmas gifts, southern-fried tees, VinTAGe PEARL SNAPS, CoWboy boots . . you name it . . we got it!!!!***

Come out for tha Beer, Burgers, and BEST o' tha DiXie ChicKeN vinyls! AND get a head start on your Christmas shoppin'! AND IT benefits SCOTTY'S HOUSE, child advocacy center!!!!

SomeBoDY say AMEN and pass tha TiJUANA FriES!

SIN CITY SOCIAL CLUB MEMBERS GET FREE SHIPPING on orders over $45 on www.gypsyville.com 
PROMO CODE: SINCITY


THATS ALL for now folks!   We love you and hope that you're enjoying the holiday season!

Shilah & Erika
Your Sin City Socialites


Shilah Morrow
Sin City Social Club
LA * Austin * Nashville
213.840.3865

TWEET: @sincitysclub
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NODepression: Sin City Shilah

For more info. on events & projects please visit:

www.sincitysocialclub.com
www.shurmanville.com
www.rubyjames.com
www.susanmarshall.net
www.americanamusic.org

The Sin City Social Club is a renegade collective of musicians, fans, artists and industry executives brought together by shared appreciation of the art and culture that blur the lines between classic, outlaw & alt. country, punk rock, americana and indie singer songwriters.   We turn fans around the globe onto the music and art we love thru our Sin City Social Club Samplers, live events, In flight audio programming  and thru our home away from home on the internet.

** Wherever you are, Sin City is a state of mind! **
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BREAKDOWN....GRAMMY BREAKDOWN, that is.....

General NewsThank you to Jessie Scott at Music Fog for this fantastic breakdown of the Grammy awards! And thank you to her again for allowing us to repost. Please visit www.musicfog.com for the original story plus some great original footage from some of our favorite artists! GRAMMY Fever
Grammy_logoThe 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place in LA on January 31st, 2010, and the nominees were announced last night. This year represents a paradigm shift in that a new field has been created to honor roots music, called American Roots. Under it, there are several categories: Bluegrass, Folk, Blues, Zydeco, Hawaiian, Native American, and the brand new Americana Album of the Year! The nod for that goes to Dylan for Together Through Life, Levon for Electric Dirt, Willie and The Wheel, Wilco, and Lucinda for Little Honey. But to be honest, that barely scratches the surface of the nominees we know and love.
  • For Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, we have "Sea of Heartbreak" from Rosanne Cash with Bruce Springsteen and "Baby It's Cold Outside" from Willie Nelson and Norah Jones. 
  • Bela Fleck is acknowledged for his Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song "Throw Down Your Heart."
  • Willie Nelson also gets the nod for American Classic in the Best Traditional Vocal Pop Album category. 
  • Best Solo Rock Performance is another Americana friendly offering with the exception of Prince. The nominees are Dylan, Fogerty, Springsteen and Neil Young.
  • We salute Alison Brown, The Greencards, and Sarah Jarosz for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
  • Ashley Cleveland gets tapped for God Don't Never Change in the Best Traditional Gospel Album category.
  • Congrats to Jim Lauderdale for Best Bluegrass Album consideration.
  • Kudos to Neko Case, Elvis Costello and Steve Earle for grabbing nominations in the Contemporary Folk Category. (Which should also be called Americana...but that's a long story of sonics and philosophy that NARAS is going to have to define more acutely in the future.)
  • T Bone Burnett is up for Producer of the Year Non Classical.
  • Johnny Cash's "America" is named as a contender for Best Long Form Video.
Whew! Can't wait to hear the winners! Congrats to all for doing such amazing work, and for constantly BRINGING IT! We love you all! For a complete list of GRAMMY nominees, click here.

-Jessie

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CHRISTMASTIME = RAUL MALO!! DEC 4 @ ANTONE'S!!!! With Special Guest RUBY JAMES!

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So when Santa asks us what we want this year for Christmas, we will already have our wish (well at least ONE of them *wink*) come true this coming Friday night, December 4 @ Antone's...... What you might ask get our bells jingling this time of year? Well, RAUL MALO, of course...... We get spoiled here in Austin since Raul makes it his "home away from home" and we get to hear his velvet voice often on KGSR....but that doesn't make this evening any less exciting!!!! For starters we have Miss Ruby James OPENING the show - and we've been teasing you a bit about this red-headed chanteuse but when Happy Now (her upcoming release) comes out early next year, YOU will understand.....come on down though for a "sneak preview" of wonderfuol things to come....... and Sigh....then there is Raul.... oh Raul how you make our heart pitter patter with your dulcet tones.... he could sing the phone book for goodness sake and STILL have the same effect! But seriously here - this is a KGSR presents an Intimate Evening With Raul Malo to benefit a worthy Austin charity, The Christmas Bureau of Austin. Doors at 7pm....tickets are $25. So get your charity on, your Christmas spirit in tow and get ready to swoon...... See you there!
www.raulmalo.com


www.rubyjames.com