the hotelier

"Everything went back into the basement... We were the few people doing this in 2008. Really bad, wussy emo rock 10 years after it was…

Bands who were already uncomfortable with "emo" were branded with an even more derogatory term in 2016: "hippies." Modern Baseball grew their hair long; Evan…

When the history books are written, music will probably not be the first thing anyone remembers about 2016. Nevertheless, the music was excellent—memorable and meaningful enough…

There's been no shortage of pessimism about 2016—a year that was plagued with fear, hatred, and confusion. In music, that ugliness was often confronted head-on,…

If the album is still supposed to be dying, nobody told 2016 – it's hard to remember a year that was so dominated by the…

Now that we're nearly halfway done with 2016, the time has come for your annual summer-listening list. Expect to find a tender comeback from the…

"Listen more, speak less," Christian Holden wrote on Tumblr a few months ago, in anticipation of his band’s forthcoming new album. These seemed like strange…

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the SPIN staff’s favorite new songs. Below, sample the best from grieving producers, hungry rappers, a Trapper Keeper punk, and…

It’s a love record. I feel like we are allowed to do that now. A new Hotelier album has always been accompanied by…