The Hotelier announce ‘Goodness’ 10th anniversary shows

The Hotelier will celebrate a decade of their essential third album, 2016’s Goodness, with some shows this year. They’ll hit a few North American cities in June and July, stopping in Chicago (Lincoln Hall on June 18), Toronto (Mod Club on June 21), NYC (Bowery Ballroom on June 25), and Los Angeles (Lodge Room on July 31). Tickets go on sale Friday, February 20 at 10 AM local, with a presale starting Thursday, February 19 at 10 AM local (use the presale password GOODNESS26).

We named Goodness one of the 50 Best Punk & Emo Albums of 2015-2019, and Andrew wrote:

Because emo is often a youth-oriented genre, a lot of these bands get attention when they’re very young, and we end up seeing the good ones drastically evolve before our eyes. (Emo 101: Just because a band’s debut album is whiny pop punk, doesn’t mean they won’t release some tremendous art rock record in like five years.) And The Hotelier are one of those bands; each album was a gigantic leap from the last. Their debut was the generic-at-times, emo-ish pop punk of 2011’s It Never Goes Out, which was followed by the much stronger and much more unique Home, Like Noplace Is There in 2014. Home, Like Noplace Is There is their most widely-loved album, but for my money, their masterpiece is 2016’s Goodness, an album that transcends any specific subgenre and feels like a monumental album for underground rock overall. It’s a warm, atmospheric record with folk/post-rock interludes, vivid imagery, and the best songwriting and production of the band’s career. They already learned how to write soaring hooks on their debut, but on Goodness, they wove those hooks in with intricate arrangements and inventive song structures. It’s the age-old approach that’s been winning music nerds over since Pet Sounds — experimentalism with an underlying pop song, making for something that’s too weird for the radio to ever touch but as catchy as anything they do play. The Hotelier figured out how to take that art pop mindset, and apply it to the driving catharsis of punk and emo, and it resulted in a record that hits you in the mind, heart, and gut all at once.

Find the full list here.

The last time The Hotelier played NYC, they were on tour with Foxing celebrating Home, Like Noplace Is There.

THE HOTELIER: 2026 TOUR DATES
Jun 18: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Jun 21: Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
Jun 25: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
July 31: Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room