New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Los Angeles quartet SAINT MOTEL has earned renown for its unique take on indie pop, absurdist lyrical ideas, and its penchant for spectacular live performance. The hotly-tipped indie rockers are gearing up to kick off their West Coast headlining tour but not before making a special performance for the much buzzed about fashion blog Lookbook.nu's first-ever Holiday Party at Los Angeles' Dim Mak Studios.
Soon after Thanksgiving, SAINT MOTEL will head up the California coast hitting Stockton and Sacramento before reaching Seattle, Vancouver and Portland. The band will then circle back towards Southern California stopping off inSeaside and
Fresno before wrapping Saturday, December 15 in Costa Mesa, CA. All tour dates are listed below and information to purchase tickets can be found at https://www.songkick.com/artists/609071-saint-motel.
In other exciting news, SAINT MOTEL recently recorded an exclusive 3-song session for the highly regarded music site Daytrotter.com. The session, released this Tuesday, November 13, was recorded at Studio Paradiso in San Francisco, CA and features the band's latest single "Benny Goodman." Daytrotter themselves praised the recording writing, "The band makes its vices sound and seemingly taste like salt water taffy. Jackson sings aboutCalifornia dreams and somehow they sound attainable anywhere. These dreams and the romantic's view of good love are addictions and he's hooked on them, singing, 'It's just so hard to quit when you're hooked on it.' He pulls closer a jug of wine, gives hell to 'days that don't make love with the night' and writes a bunch of hooky songs that sound like good meals that you'll think about occasionally and remember vividly for the rest of your life, as they're always going to speak to that one specific night." Check out the session here: ow.ly/fgny8.
About SAINT MOTEL:
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, SAINT MOTEL-A/J JACKSON (leads vocals/guitar), DAK (bass), AARON SHARP (lead guitar) and GREG ERWIN (drums)-has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly-fun live shows. Mixing raw energy and rousing rhythms, SAINT MOTEL's aural catharsis is pure bliss with a twist of cynical humor. Once the listener is pulled in by the pulsating and joyous melodies, delight can be found in the surprisingly avant-garde lyrical subject matter. VOYEUR, the band's debut album, is lush with stories that reveal themselves through thematic twists and turns with a narrative voice both subversive and sincere. A music video for the album's latest single "Benny Goodman" will be released soon.
Others that have proclaimed admiration for SAINT MOTEL:
"Saint Motel is getting ready to launch themselves into the big leagues. They successfully created an engaging and thoroughly entertaining aural pleasure of sights and sounds. Well done guys, well done." - KCRW (7/16/12)
"...an instant party crammed into a 3-minute package..." - NylonMag.com (3/1/12)
"Los Angeles is a tough place for a new band to launch a career, but
Saint Motel has been able to entertain industry folk, families, hipsters and diehards alike with their infectious tunes." - LA Weekly (9/26/11)
"Saint Motel has a flair for the dramatic. The band's shows often have themes, complete with costumes-erotica, slasher, sci-fi-just for fun…Their sound? A mix of The Morning Benders, OK Go,
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and Neon Trees." - InterviewMagazine.com (9/9/11)
SAINT MOTEL TOUR DATES:
Thu 11/15 Hollywood, CA Dim Mak Studios-Lookbook.nu Holiday Party
Thu 11/29 Stockton, CA University of the Pacific: The Lair
Fri 11/30 Sacramento, CA Bows and Arrows
Sun 12/2 Seattle, WA Barboza
Tue 12/4 Vancouver, BC The Media Club
Wed 12/5 Portland, OR Backspace
Fri 12/7 Seaside, CA Cal
State Monterey Bay:
Black Box Cabaret
Sat 12/8 Fresno, CA Fulton 55
Sat 12/15 Mesa, CA
Detroit Bar
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