Home Office Records recording artists Pawnshop

Playing with Pawnshop: All Those Balls

Three Brass Balls at work Three Brass Balls, the debut Pawnshop CD, is a grand jangly process, with 12 and some tracks leaping with energy and flair. It's a shame to squash this loving production and insistent ringing beat into crinkly submariney RealAudio files ... but for you, we'll do it.

Click like a clicky person for: Wild Rose - Who's to Blame
Reality - Measure - Stumblin' Fool

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me mp3's: Well, mp3 files only lasted a couple of days on web-ho.com, sadly enough. From here you can jump to the Net's most popular mp3 sites and listen to Pawnshop to your heart's content -- and post reviews, comments and ratings along the way, and bump us up their charts. Below are direct links to the handy-dandy Pawnshop pages (PLEASE READ THE TIP BELOW before braving the oddly-made Rolling Stone site -- it's tricky otherwise).

MP3.com: The world's foremost mp3 site, and for good reason. Simple and attractive, with easy access to most features (including lots of mp3 software). The site is very tolerant of old browsers and slow connections. Our fave.

Riffage: A bold newcomer, flashy and useful. Fast access to calendar dates and reviews are posted on the artist page, which is a plus. It's JavaScript all over, and your older machines may not like it much. Our Recommendation: set up a "My Riffage" account for very nifty features; add Pawnshop to your band list!

Rolling Stone: Rolling Stone? Yup, Rolling Stone. Guess they were feeling left out. Not that they make it easy on young musicians even with their mp3 section -- we're in the same charts as REM and Tori Amos and all. JavaScript here produces lots of errors (none fatal to new machines). Tip: to get to the sound files, click on "Download This" right under the Pawnshop picture. This will load a page that looks exactly like the one you came in on (brilliant, dudes), but now there are sound links on the bottom. Scroll down. Took us a while to figure this one out.

Like what you hear here? Three Brass Balls is available here in the Home Office Records online store and at all the usual vast online purveyors of music, including CDNow, CDWorld, Amazon.com, CDUniverse, Tower Records Online, etc. In the Real World it is available for purchase nationwide -- you might have to order it, which we heartily encourage -- at discerning independent music stores and at the larger chains, including Tower Records and the Virgin Megastores. The difference between us and them? They take credit cards. We're cheaper! Do the math ... and if you can't find Three Brass Balls in stores where you are (in the U.S.A. only, sorry!), please drop us a line and we'll see if we can't rectify the situation.

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