July 21st / 8:00PM
21+ / $6

Nectar Presents:

Hotels

The Secret History (NYC)

• Bandolier

BIO

The Secret History is band from New York City. Michael Grace, jr writes songs about ghosts and monsters and sometimes Italy. Lisa Ronson and Erin Dermody sing them. Darren Amadio, Kurt Brondo, Tod Karasik and Gil Abad tailor sounds to suit each changing mood. Grace & the boys once had a band called My Favorite that only very clever people liked. The Secret History's debut long player is released on Le Grand Magistery March 2010.

Hotels makes hook-heavy sci-fi soundtrack synth-rock that goes for the jugular, both sonically and melodically. Picture the bastard children of Devo and Joy Division, pushed down the street in a stroller by Claude Debussy, tucked in at night by the Cocteau Twins, read bedtime stories by Kraftwerk, and baby-sat by your sister’s cooler older friends Stereolab and The Pixies, while they tore out the guts of old synths in the garage. The result is the most relentlessly paced, hauntingly melodic, damn catchy pop music you’ve never heard, each song an end credit for the weary traveller.

LINKS

• The Secret History on Myspace
• Hotels on Myspace
• Bandolier on Myspace

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