MATT DRISCOLL: HOTELS AT YOUR SERVICE TONIGHT >>>

Travel. Romance. Solitude. Rest.

While, as a former hotel employee (I lasted seven months until I quit that shit, yo!), I can professionally attest the above semi-slogan sounds like a marketing department-created mantra you’d see on a pillow placard at the Holiday Inn, for Hotels â€" a hype-propelled Seattle band scheduled to take the stage at the New Frontier this Saturday â€" the meaning is slightly different.

Which makes sense, actually, since Hotels crafted the expression as a way to describe the band. Where the Chili Peppers are blood, sex, sugar, magic, and tube socks, Hotels are travel, romance, solitude and rest.

Or something like that … It’s really not important.

Perhaps you’ve heard of Hotels? If your radio dial ever stops on KEXP, at least within the past few months, anyway, there’s a good chance you have. Powered by the airplay success of the band’s sophomore effort, Where Hearts Go Broke â€" which officially “dropped” on Valentine’s Day and features a startling mix of New Wave and post punk, up and down, dance and melancholic circumstance â€" Hotels, as a band, is finding itself in a world that seems more ready than ever to digest it.

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To hear the Hotels hang out at The New Frontier Lounge tonight.

[The New Frontier Lounge, with the Girls, Sons of Ivan, Saturday, May 9, 9 p.m., $5, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]