Rose Haven Motor Hotel with Empty Atlas at Martin's Downtown

After years of co-fronting a couple bands, collaborating and producing with other artists, and being the occasional local hired gun, Jackson, MS artist Ben Atkinson started Rose Haven Motor Hotel as a solo project. The goal was to finally release years of ideas and continue building on a varied and unique sound. Indie rock with a twang, folk with grungy edges, vintage harmonies stacked and fried. RHMH has kept evolving, and it always will.

“... EP Things Don’t Stay is therefore appropriately titled, not only evoking the overarching wistfulness which marks the release, but also speaking to the stylistic fluidity which occurs across the five songs.....A worthy addition to the current alt-country revival, fitting somewhere into that post-Drive By Truckers movement of Wednesday and MJ Lenderman.” - Jon Doyle

“How have I not heard this band before now?” Famous first words of every Empty Atlas fan.

For almost a decade, the Mississippi melodic indie rock act has assembled a trove of uncommon songs about common ground. Where 2022’s soaring anthem “Matador” highlights hope and persistence, their newest single “Belong” reflects on the unity of loss and leaning on friends.

Heavy concepts, for sure, but coated in Empty Atlas’s unmistakable blend of dynamic rock, hooky melodies and thoughtful lyrics. Already, the song is earning fans and accolades internationally, including a semifinalist spot in the Unsigned Only Music Competition.

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