New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Telethon perform "Succinct, The Optimist" on Live From The Rock Room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtstAMAgI3w&feature=youtu.be
Upcoming shows:
JAN 5 - Milwaukee WI - 88nine RadioMwaukee
FEB 1 -
Chicago IL - Quenchers Saloon
FEB 28- Cactus Club- Milwaukee, WI (w/ Iron Chic, Dusk)
'The Grand Spontanean: A Tale Told In Five Acts' is now available for free/name your price at https://telethonband.bandcamp.com.
What others are saying about Telethon's ''The Grand Spontanean: A Tale Told In Five Acts':
Billboard: "The Grand Spontanean soars with robust emo anthems that take cues from the twin-guitar attack of
Thin Lizzy and the heartland sentiment of Bruce Springsteen."
Punknews: "The Grand Spontanean is likely the most painfully overlooked LP of 2017. It's ambitious and takes risks, but succeeds at virtually everything it attempts."
The Alternative: "Telethon's The Grand Spontanean is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious albums of 2017."
Shepherd Express: "... a mammoth, utterly audacious marathon of a record...It includes interpolations of
No Doubt and
Carly Simon songs, a recitation of the Franz Kafka short story The Sudden Walk, several straight-up ska numbers and comes packaged with a 23-page playbill. If that all sounds like something that might be up your alley, it will be."
Milwaukee Record: "Telethon's latest demands attention.With an inventive idea and admirable execution, The Grand Spontanean effectively transforms this unknown pop-punk project from a band you've never heard of into one you have to hear."
BrooklynVegan: "It's a similar kind of high-spirited, unselfconscious, ambitious pop-punk album to Jeff Rosenstock's great WORRY."
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: "Telethon has made a consistently strong and catchy album — all the more impressive given its 90-minute run-time — that successfully spans from Springsteen-esque heartland rock to punchy pop punk to back-porch country."
New Noise: "...somehow Telethon, a four-year-old band from (Milwaukee) with only two records to their name, have completely bucked every stereotype about concept albums with their 30-song rock opera."
ThePunkSite: "The Grand Spontanean is sprawling, ridiculous, eccentric and overblown, and if I'm honest I loved every minute of it."
UnderAirMedia: "This album is absolutely insane.
Everything here is truly a masterpiece."
Hartford Courant: "There's a welcome roughness to the thing, but some fine drama and musicality, including amusing swipes from Pachelbel's Canon and
James Bond movie themes."
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"We made a sprawling five-act rock opera about the internet, culture, human relationships, and the apocalypse. We hope you love it."- Telethon
ACT I: Bad Reputation (tracks #1-8)
1 The Signal
2. Apocalypse When
3. Succinct, the Optimist
4. Doctor
5. He's Right
6. The Paranoid Blur
7. Tiny Rushes
8. The Page at the End of the Internet
ACT II: Cold Sweat (tracks #9-13)
9. Punctuation!
10 Wrung
11. Flatpack
12. A Martyr's View from The View at the Marriott Marquis
13. The Page at the End of the
Internet (Reprise)
ACT III: Fight or Fall (tracks #14-20)
14. Underture
15. Temporarily
16. Stillwave (feat. Chris Farren)
17. The Improbable New Sensations
18. "GENERATOR" by The Improbable New Sensations
19. "UNTIL THE BALL STOPS" by The Improbable New Sensations
20. "MY SECOND-TO-LAST MONDAY" by The Improbable New Sensations
ACT IV: Running Back (tracks #21-26)
21. Notches on the Scale
22. The Runner's High (feat.
Roger Lima)
23. "The Sudden Walk" (by Franz Kafka; read by Franz Nicolay)
24. On Companionship (feat.
Laura Stevenson)
25. Weirdness Flows
26. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (feat.
Laura Stevenson)
ACT V: Remembering (tracks #27-30)
27. A Choice!
28. Firebrand
29. 30 Seconds of Silence!
30. Fruit Bat
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