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.”
