Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles Fan Club

Another Very Special Message from Sarah

2011-12-01T14:23:00.000-06:00

I'm extending my campaign for 1 week! Pledge now and I'll make a video dedicated to you of me singing any song you want

http://sarahborges.portmerch.com/stores/home.php

Another Special Message from Sarah

2011-11-23T11:38:00.002-06:00

Hey Turkeys! I'm going on a WORLD TOUR! Via the internet. Pledge to my campaign and I'll play a live concert just for you to watch in your very own living room. Pledgers only! It's the last week to be a part of my campaign so donate now.

http://sarahborges.portmerch.com/stores/home.php

24 Hour Special -- Hey baby, what's your number?

2011-10-24T15:24:00.000-05:00

HI FRIENDS!

I wanted to keep you all up to speed with my fundraising campaign -
things are going wonderfully. So far we've raised a whopping
$5250, and we've got all 10 songs started.

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who has donated!!!
Unfortunately I still have just about 10k to raise if I want to get
this record made, and that's a lot of lettuce. So for those of you who have donated in the past but want to increase your pledge today, or haven't had a chance yet to pledge, I have a proposition for you!

For the next 24 HOURS ONLY, anyone who donates to my campaign or increases a pledge they've already made will get a very special prize.

Drumroll please...

To show my extreme gratitude, I will call you (or someone of your
choosing) on your (or their) birthday and sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
you in my best Marilyn Monroe, Big Bird, Sarah Borges or anyone else voice to personally thank you for your contribution! I will also send you each a never before heard demo track from the record, so you can hear the a song from the record before anyone else!

Don't forget - to get the phone call from me and the unreleased
demo track, you need to up your pledge in the next 24 hours! So, get your pledging fingers ready and click on this link:

http://sarahborges.portmerch.com/stores/home.php

YOU CAN PLEDGE AT ANY CONTRIBUTION LEVEL TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS
PRIZE. AND IF YOU"VE PLEDGED ALREADY, JUST CLICK ON THE "INCREASE PLEDGE" LINK AND UP YOUR PLEDGE BY ANY AMOUNT YOU CHOOSE (IT COULD EVEN BE $5)!

AND REMEMBER - YOU MUST CONTRIBUTE IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS-

READY,

SET,
GO!!!

Thank you so much for your support. This record CANNOT be made without you!

PLEDGE NOW!
XO
SB

Help Sarah Make a Record

2011-10-19T10:16:00.000-05:00

A special note from Sarah:

Dear Friends-

As you may know, I'm making a new record! A solo one, apart from the
Broken Singles, with Lyle Brewer on guitar, Russell Chudnofsky (Lori
McKenna) also on guitar, Kimon Kirk (Aimee Mann, Grant Lee Phillips) on bass, Andy Plaisted ondrums, Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) producing, and David Minehan (The Neighborhoods) engineering. What a crew! And I'm doing without help from one of the pesty labels, but with the support of friends and fans like you.

You've already given once to help me make a live album/dvd, and I didn't
want to let this fundraising campaign go by without thanking you for
making the last one such a success! It's because you gave that we were
able to get those projects made, and that I'm in the lucky position to
make a record all on my own.

Some of you have already donated to my new record, and THANK YOU!!!! I'm
writing to ask the rest of you lovely folks to do the same. Here are some
of the highlights: new original songs that I'm really proud of, fabulous
rewards like mix tapes and artwork and house concerts as thank yous for
giving, and a warm fuzzy feeling inside from supporting independent music.
What else do you need?

Click
here to get all of the details, and again,

thank you, thank YOU, THANK YOU!!!

xoxo

Sarah

Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles | Southgate House Newport, Ky 7/17/10 | Video

2010-08-04T08:48:00.000-05:00

Video by wendyivey2

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles | Weekly Dig | 07/20/10

2010-07-20T14:02:00.001-05:00

By HILARY HUGHES/Weekly Dig

I'VE SEEN YOU BEND OVER BACKWARDS AND DANCE LIKE A FIEND ONSTAGE, ALL WITH A GUITAR IN HAND. HAVE YOU EVER FALLEN PULLING THESE CRAZY TRICKS?

I think about it every night! "This is the night where I'm gonna fall!" In New Haven, I accidentally knocked out one of my front teeth with my guitar. My mom cried when she saw me at the show.

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles| 'Well-Oiled Machine"| Herald-Palladium

2010-07-16T08:17:00.000-05:00

By Jeremy D. Bonfiglio, The Herald-Palladium, St. Joseph, Mich.

The band, which is beginning the final week of a five-week cross-country tour, is also gearing up to start recording their next studio record, which may or may not be released by their current label.

"We haven't parted ways," Borges says. "Technically, Sugar Hill is still our label, but economically everything is difficult these days and that's left some things uncertain."

What is certain is the musical direction of the band, which Borges says, seems stronger than ever.

"In the past we've explored different elements of our style," she says. "Whether that's country or blues or rock or whatever. The songs we've been writing now, they're pretty rock but it come out in the most organic way. We've been together now for eight years, so I feel like now we're sort of this well-oiled machine."

Borges started co-writing for the first time with Freedy Johnston, Ryan Hedgecock of Lone Justice, Dan Lavery of Tonic, and Marshall Crenshaw. The band recently recorded a handful of songs in Portland, Ore., and plan to head back into the studio after their final leg of their current tour.

"We've written quite a few songs," Borges says. "I think we're just waiting to get home so we can demo them."

Three of those new songs have become staples in the band's current set. There's "Mind On Me," which began as a co-write with Johnston that was flushed out by the band; "Tell the Same Story," the first song penned by guitarist Lyle Brewer, which Borges describes as a "melancholic pop song in line with The Smiths"; and "Thunderbird," an instrumental to open their live shows also written by Brewer that Borges calls a "flashy honky-tonk-sort-of-rockabilly-sort-of-rock number."

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles| The Tour Goes On Forever | Cincinnati.com

2010-07-16T08:12:00.000-05:00

By Bill Thompson • July 16, 2010

"Our touring policy when we first started was concentric circles," says the always genial Borges, who had been tubing on a river in Austin, Texas, before talking on the phone recently. "You start at your own town, then go to the outside of that, and then hopefully just get bigger and bigger.

"Now it's at the point where our concentric circles include Austin and Cincinnati, and we hope to have the entire west half of the country, but we're not there yet."

It's not from lack of effort. The band played more than 130 shows last year, and are on a pace that will top that this year. "We'll take the show, unless we have to pay to play it," Borges says.

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles| 2010 Tour Diary #5 | Video

2010-07-15T08:52:00.000-05:00

5 Reasons to See Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles | ArtsQuest.com

2010-07-14T06:57:00.000-05:00

-Posted by Chris Zysk, ArtsQuest Marketing Intern and Golden Girls super-fan
7/13/2010

1. Support women who rock. Whether you are a fan of Patti Smith’s punk anthems, Loretta Lynn’s down-home Dixie, or Erykah Badu’s thoughtful soul, women in music rock regardless of either genre or gender. And SB&BS has a little bit of it all.

2. Sarah Borges’ indie vocals remind me of Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis’ western stylings. There’s just something very old-school and sincere about her heartfelt delivery and working-class ethic. Speaking of old school, Jenny Lewis once starred on an episode of The Golden Girls. RIP Blanche.

3. I’m a sucker for beery guitars dipped in country twang. It’s like listening to Neil Young, without the distraction of looking at Neil Young’s perpetual scowl.

4. Not only is SB&BS one of the hardest-working touring bands out there, but the band’s abbreviated name is also a palindrome, which makes it instantly cool. Which is more than I can say for my failed attempt at producing customized guitar accessories, StrapArts.

5. The bass player’s name is Binky. Likewise, the Broken Singles’ sound is so warm and inviting it just makes you want to snuggle up to your favorite amplifier, turn it up to eleven and anticipate angry phone calls from your neighbors.

Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles | Bastille Days, Milwaukee 7/10/10 | Video

2010-07-12T07:45:00.000-05:00

video by jettejet

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles 2010 Tour Diary #4 | Video

2010-07-11T14:53:00.001-05:00

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles Working on New Record | Riverfront Times Interview

2010-07-10T06:45:00.001-05:00

riverfronttimes.com By Roy Kasten Wednesday, Jul 7 2010

Sarah Borges begins a set with sweet rasp in her voice and ends it with the vestiges of primal R&B howl therapy. With her band the Broken Singles, she's become one of the most dependably entertaining, unpretentious and agile live performers on the rock side of Americana.

Are you actually recording the new record now?
We've done demos which sound good enough to be on the record. I've been doing some cowriting, which was set up by my publisher, Bug. I've had good success with it, in terms of getting good songs. I did one with Ryan Hedgecock of Lone Justice; Marshall Crenshaw; Dan Lavery, who was in a '90s band, Tonic; and Freedy Johnston.

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles 2010 Tour Diary #3 | Video

2010-07-05T07:24:00.001-05:00

Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles | The Mint 6/23/10 | Show Review

2010-06-25T11:41:00.001-05:00

Musical Shapes - SBBS at the Mint, Los Angeles, June 23
By Michael Berick

The wise-cracking, raven-haired Borges (pronounced like “gorgeous”) certainly is a vivacious frontwoman. Since this is Los Angeles, comparisons can be made to Sandra Bullock (more the feisty Speed model than say the recent All About Steve). Musically, however, she recalls Neko Case back in the days when she played with the Boyfriends, and before she turned into an NPR art-pop darling.

Borges has her own “boyfriends” backing her up: guitarist Lyle Brewster, drummer Robert Larry Dulaney and bassist/comic sidekick Binky. Together they whipped up twangy rock ‘n’ roll that’s part grange and part garage. A good example of their sound would be their energizing cover of the NRBQ’s “It Come To Me Naturally,” a good-natured, roadhouse rave-up that they perform with grit and sass. --Michael Berick

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles 2010 Tour Diary #2 | Video

2010-06-24T12:55:00.000-05:00

Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles | Green Lantern | Show Preview

2010-06-24T12:16:00.000-05:00

North of Center by Captain Comannokers

They can sound like a ‘60s girl group, a gritty bar band, or a dozen other things if they damn well please. Borges doesn’t try to over sing, and her knack for melodies can leave their tunes happily lingering in your head.

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles | "Punky Tonk" | Show Preview

2010-06-22T07:34:00.000-05:00

From Musical Shapes:Go See Hear in L.A.: June 21-27

Sarah Borges has been another of my favorite acts in recent years. Her music is a captivating mix of barroom country and rock ‘n’ roll – maybe it’s “punky tonk.”

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles| White Eagle Saloon in Portland | 6/18/2010 | Photos

2010-06-21T08:55:00.000-05:00

Photos by Diane Walker Potter

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles 2010 Tour Diary | Video

2010-06-19T19:43:00.002-05:00

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles DVD Update & More

2010-06-14T20:28:00.001-05:00

Happy summer everyone!

We’ve just embarked on our 2010 cross-country tour, played some wonderful shows, and are about to start work on some demos for a new album!

I’m writing to you to update you about the status of our live DVD. Before I do that though, just a quick aside:

Read the entire update from SBBS

'SBBS Stage Cam' from Rochester NY | Video

2010-06-13T10:07:00.002-05:00

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles| Rochester, NY | Party in the Park

2010-06-12T09:48:00.002-05:00

Special Thanks to George Tuttle for these great photos.

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles -Roots on the River | Preview

2010-06-10T13:11:00.000-05:00

Friday at the Everyday Inn in Rockingham, the smoking hot Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles open for Fred Eaglesmith...if you haven’t seen Borges, get ready to be blown away as she rocks, rolls and makes love to her guitar. By the time she’s done, you’ll be out of breath.

Michael Witthaus

Algorythms: Roots on the River reaches across the spectrum

Sarah Borges & the Broken Single - City Newspaper/Music Profile 6/9/2010

2010-06-09T13:00:00.000-05:00

A great write up by Frank De Blase/City Newspaper 6/9/2010

"Borges' songs mix confidence with vulnerability, the cocksure with the bashful; a kind of swagger on tip toes. On stage you can see and hear the beauty in her song structures as the band puts them to the air"

SBBS City Newspaper Music Profile