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Shawn Mafia ~ Last Call on Christmas Eve shawnmafia 15 views Shawn Mafia performing Last Call on Christmas Eve live at Hip Kitty Jazz in Claremont, CA. 12/04/2011.
Shawn Mafia ~ Don't Give Me the Blues Tonight shawnmafia 28 views
Shawn Mafia - Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones Cover) shawnmafia 42 views Shawn Mafia & The 10¢ Thrills live at the Hip Kitty Jazz in Claremont, CA. Performing Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones). 12/04/2011. Shawn Mafia - Vocals/Guitar. 10¢ Thrill...
MR. SIEGAL - SHAWN MAFIA (TOM WAITS COVER) shawnmafia 120 views TOM WAITS - MR. SIEGAL PERFORMED BY SHAWN MAFIA & THE TEN CENT THRILLS AT THE HIP KITTY JAZZ & FONDUE LOUNGE IN CLAREMONT, CA. MARCH 2011.
BORDER RADIO - SHAWN MAFIA (BLASTERS - DAVE ALVIN COVER) shawnmafia 118 views Shawn Mafia & The Ten Cent Thrills perform a cover of the Blaster's Border Radio to a high voltage crowd at the Hip Kitty in Claremont, CA. March 2011.
SHAWN MAFIA - FAST AS YOU - DWIGHT YOAKAM (COVER) shawnmafia 55 views Shawn Mafia & The Ten Cent Trills perform Dwight Yoakam's Fast As You at the Hip Kitty in Claremont, CA. March 2011.
SHAWN MAFIA - TRY YOUR LUCK IN ANOTHER TOWN shawnmafia 13 views SHAWN MAFIA & THE TEN CENT THRILLS perform the original song TRY YOUR LUCK IN ANOTHER TOWN written by SHAWN MAFIA. Live at the Hip Kitty in Claremont, CA. March 2011. Try Y...
Shawn Mafia - Human Tumbleweeds & Miners In Chile Monolouge shawnmafia 15 views Shawn Mafia & The 10¢ Thrills performing the original song Human Tumbleweeds to a wildly abrasive Claremont , California crowd on October 21, 2010. Ric "The Pick" Chaffee -...
SHAWN MAFIA - SNAKE OIL (LIVE AT THE HIP KITTY JAZZ & FONDUE LOUNGE) shawnmafia 45 views Shawn Mafia & The 10¢ Thrills performing the original song Snake Oil to a wildly abrasive Claremont , California crowd on October 21, 2010. Ric "The Pick" Chaffee - Lead Gu...
SHAWN MAFIA - WAITING ON TOMORROW (LIVE AT THE HIP KITTY JAZZ & FONDUE LOUNGE) shawnmafia 50 views Shawn Mafia & The 10¢ Thrills performing the original song Waiting On Tomorrow to a wildly abrasive Claremont , California crowd on October 21, 2010. Ric "The Pick" Chaffee...

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Singer/Songwriter Shawn Mafia, and his own patented brand of "Rock Noir", has largely remained a musical enigma; a dust covered detour sign located a few miles down the dirt, where the asphalt of the music industry stops and the ever present Dead End sign clearly announces its commercial intentions and the current band of 21st Century artists stick their thumbs out desperate for a ride. But the train left the depot years and years ago, and not even the Devil is driving down to the crossroads to make a deal. In a music industry nullified and negated with safe, sculpted and shallow artists propped up in the sole pursuit of turning a quick buck we are left without any real heroes or anti-heroes for that matter. On the opposite end of the spectrum are innumerable bands, songwriters and performers preaching to the choir. Mixing, matching and amalgamating the best of older genres that in their infancy were vibrant, cutting edge and dangerous, but now days have been relegated to nothing more than nostalgia. Thus, we are set a drift in a musical wasteland with everyone attempting to re-invent retro styles, unable to move forward with anything truly original. Perhaps the most we can hope for is an original voice. Shawn Mafia has the potential to be that voice. He has been described by the Desert Post Weekly as having "...the persona of a Carney Barker's bastard preacher son out in front of a sideshow tent! Mafia is on a mission to tell stories you might not want to hear, about people you never wanted to meet." Shawn Mafia is also on a mission to bring the music industry a well needed dose of dark, shadowy realism with his own unique songwriting style described appropriately enough as "Rock Noir."

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