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The Hotelier, Foxing, Little Big League, Rookie Move
Tuesday August 5, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Cost: $10
From the venue:
It’s amazing how quickly some listeners recoil when they hear a band’s music described as “emo,†as if churning electric guitars, catchy songs sung with passion, and lyrics about love, loss, and life are collectively a bad thing. Whatever you call the sound — post-hardcore, melodic punk, the “E†word — members of Massachusetts’ the Hotelier are great at it, as evidenced by Home, Like Noplace Is There. The band’s sophomore album is at once a gut wrenching and gorgeous collection of shimmering rock songs pockmarked with personal struggle and pulsing with authentic, veins-bulging emotion.