One of the most effortlessly cool bands I know, Motel Motel (originally featured on this blog here, and also a band that made it onto my "Best of 2008" post) have released a Youtube video wishing you all a happy holiday. And, true to form… it's pretty damn cool. I'll hopefully have a chance to post [...]This has been a post from Burgo's Music BlogMotel Motel, "Spanish Harlem"… Happy Holiday
--- - |- You Should Know Motel Motel is one of those bands you hear and think to yourself: "How are these guys not huge?" Formed in 2006, the Brooklyn band sounds New York City enough to fit in with the likes of The Walkmen but they add enough country twang to satiate fans of Americana. After an 11-city cross country tour from Boston to Denver, the band decided to stay in Colorado to rec...
Brooklyn five-piece Motel Motel is excited to reveal their brand new video for single, “Coffee”, off their debut New Denver. Directed by Matthew Murphy.“Coffee” |...**Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
--- - |- Brooklyn's rock/americana band Motel Motel is giving away a new track from their new album New Denver . The song is called "Coffee" and you can snap it below. If you want more, you can go over to their myspace and steal "Harlem" from their music player. "Coffee" | download New Denver is available now on iTunes . Motel Motel | Myspace | Buy ~~- Motel...
The music video can be a very expressive medium to convey a message, just as the audio itself can formulate an impressionable amount of emotion: happy, sad, hopeless, joyous. The best videos, of course, complement the song in such a way, and, in fact, embark on their own journey into the mind of the [...]
Brooklyn's Motel Motel sound like a mix between Ryan Adams and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with a mix of lulling piano and cello in the background to smooth things out. I instantly loved both of these songs, but "coffee", with the chug-a-lug acoustic (ukulele?) guitar line and the driving vocals howling "i [...]~~
Motel Motel posted a bunch of youtube videos on their myspace page of them recording, playing live, and just plain old dicking around. Coffee Recording New Denver Recording Harlem
Percussion has never sounded so good. Erik Gundel, guitarist for Motel Motel, creates an amazingly unique, instrumentally rich style of music. Gundel’s music is as multi-instrumentally diverse as it gets. Using piano, guitar, percussion instruments¸ and synthesizer, Gundel creates the perfect unification of acoustic and electric surges of sound. Erik’s harmonic voice and perfect