Excerpt: "Remember when your punk-rock lesbian classmate made you a mixed tape  and you heard Joy Division, Bauhaus and New Order for the first time?  Remember how madly in love you fell with all things goth; the music, the  fashion, the nocturnal romance of it all? Yet despite your new  all-black wardrobe (totally slimming!) your mopester cred was deeply  suspect due to your excitement over things like lip-gloss, good grades,  and your awesome mom and dad. (Okay, that was me.) Then thankfully you  discovered The Cramps, The B-52’s, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  whose combined sense of campy macabre gave you a much appreciated hall  pass from that carefully studied affect of perpetual ennui you couldn’t  quite pull off. (Again, me.) Well, today’s angsty yet absurdist post-punk fans can find similar respite in Seattle’s sci-fi rockers Hotels. Their newest single 'The Bat Watusi' (which, if you choose to love it based on the name alone, I will join  you) is a tightly nuanced and ominous track filled with homage to the  drive-in horror B-flicks of yesteryear. Not to mention the ghosts of  Link Wray and Dick Dale lurking in the shadows. Though cinematic in  scope, The Bat Watusi is frantic, sinister garage rock at its  ass-shaking core. Is sci-fi-surf-noir a musical genre? No? I think when  Hotels releases <em>On The Casino Floor</em> on  February 23rd 2011, a concept album about the earth exploding in tandem  with the grand opening of the first casino complex in space, perhaps it  will be."

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