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My Favorite Picture of You

You only live once (strokes cover) (young the giants)

The first single from Second Sight - available October 21, 2014

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Hey Rosetta! - Kintsukuroi

Blue June (2014) - Devan & Khalid

Vocals & Music: Devan Glover & Khalid Yassein
Produced by: Hannah Carter & Erin Prysiazny

Blue June (Live Acoustic Demo)

With the band sharing a similar postcode to the Arctic Monkeys (before they buggered off to America) one would be forgiven for thinking that Sheffield's The Starkins were just aping (not even sorry) their home-town heroes, but whilst they might well have their roots in jangly mid '00s indie, the fact remains that when the aforementioned dropped their debut single in 2005, The Starkins hadn't even started high school. 

As far as bands go, they don't get much more fresh-faced than The Starkins, though we mean that in the literal sense. For all their youthful exuberance, the band have been together a little under four years, in that time amassing a handful of tracks in a career that belies their relatively young years. The most recent track to be added to their arsenal is 'Paper Cuts', and like each of their singles before it, shows listeners a different side to the band, and marks a notable step up in both production and composition.

Those of you familiar with The Starkins needn't worry though; the loose guitars haven't been tightened beyond recognition, and the track still harbours the same irresistible pop sensibility that endeared fans to them in the first place. There does seem to be a murmuring of a maturing process taking place however. Is this the sound of The Starkins growing up?

Paper Cuts

When I was 17 in school i was really mentally unstable and didn’t surround myself around the right crowd and ended up almost taking my life because of it until this random guy stopped me and I never saw him after that again

He followed me into the forest..

Cocaine Hurricane

Pillow Talk

That's What She Say

The Zolas - Marlaina Kamikaze

Picks from the albums Help Me! (2012) and Balcony Cigarettes (2009)
Check the videos:
Can't Get Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGS5Px37YAs
Die young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ-jzDsl_ic
Mona Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWGpbDJlMj8


The Sweet Serenades - Die Young

All Songs Written, Produced & Recorded by Hotel Cinema 
Mixed By Steve Bone 
Mastered by John McCaig at Panic Studios. Seattle,WA 

Hotel Cinema is Mark Hadley & Keeley Bumford 

Featuring: 
Ricky Bakken - Bass 
Kiel Feher - Drums 
Georgia, Estlin, Piper & Aiden - Children's Choir on "Rabbit Hole" 
Album Art by Camille Verhaeghe 
Design by Alex Wright 

Hotel Cinema would like to thank: 
Camille Verhaeghe, Danny Hadley, Alex Wright, Kiel Feher, Ricky Bakken, Jay Marcovitz, Natalie Smith, Dan Bynum, Beth Drewien & Both of our Families. 

Special Thanks to Gabriel Mann & Becky Kneubuhl for the support and infinite studio access, and for lending us their children's wonderful voices and delightful personalities. 

Extra Special Thanks to Steve Bone for all the time and effort that went into mixing these songs.

Hotel Cinema - Better Run

From Wild Child's upcoming record The Runaround. Produced by Ben Kweller.
Management Contact - Pat Cassidy - 703-217-0858 - PatrickMCassidy@gmail.com

Wild Child - Coming Home

Fiercely independent road warriors Wild Child, an “indie powerhouse,” has spent the past year stepping into that spotlight, playing stages as major as Austin City Limits Music Festival, Wakarusa, Firefly Music Festival, Bonnaroo, Osheaga, and Savannah Stopover.

Behind their second album, The Runaround, the premiere release on Ben Kweller’s Noise Company label, the Austin six piece earned NPR’s Top Ten Songs of 2013 honors for the song “Living Tree,” and saw five additional songs hit number 1 on Hype Machine’s Popular chart.  Their Spotify, Soundcloud, and YouTube streams have eclipsed ten million listens, and they’ve appeared on NPR’s World Cafe and an airing of eTown Radio. The lead single from The Runaround, “Crazy Bird,” debuted on Specialty Radio at number one fueled by an electrifying performance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. 

              Together since 2010, the band has been hailed as one of the top acts in music-rich Austin since the release of debut album Pillow Talk; their mix of folk, pop, and gypsy melodies make them sound like little else. Kelsey Wilson has “the voice of a Jazz Age Broadway baby,” writes NPR, “all coos and hiccups and shivers.” Among unanimously illustrious praise from the likes of Paste Magazine, Relix Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Indie Shuffle, The Austin Chronicle, and American Songwriter, the Austin American­Statesman has anointed Wild Child as “Austin’s next national breakout act.”  Countless sold-out shows across the US suggest that that foretold future may in fact already be upon us.

              Incorporating violin, ukulele, cello, piano, bass, banjo, and horns in ways that few bands could conceive of today, Wild Child has broken through as one of the preeminent bands in one of the most storied music cities in the world, winning back-to-back honors as the city’s Best Indie Band at the Austin Music Awards.

“Music defines us,” says Wild Child’s co-frontman Alexander Beggins. “We get up every day to stomp, clap, whoop, holler, and dance with our family on stage and our friends in the crowd. We’re always looking for ways to expand our sound and push our boundaries musically, and we’re always looking for the next thing, the next sound, the next song. But in the meantime, it just blows our mind to stand on stage and look out into the crowd and see people singing along.”


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