The five grievous angels who comprise Motel Motel steal the candlelight, bali hai wine, shotguns and steam trains from forlorn honky-tonkers like Gram Parsons and ... (more) Townes Van Zandt and escape without being smothered by the alt-country label. Unlike their more direly nostalgic peers, New York-based Motel Motel imbue the gothic storytelling of their forebears with a nubile energy that suggests they're living just as hard but having more fun. Motel Motel has been fortunate enough to share the stage with Phosphorescent, Field Music,Fiery Furnaces, The Antlers, Harlem Shakes, Herman Dune, The Cave Singers, These United States, Dax Riggs, The Low Anthem, Pains of being Pure at Heart, and many more wonderful people..