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Television Generation

Denver, CO | Established. Jan 01, 2012 | SELF

Denver, CO | SELF
Established on Jan, 2012
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"Television Generation Release Music Video for "Fuchsia""

In honor of 303 Day, Denver indie rock band Television Generation has released a new music video for their song, "Fuchisa." The track comes from the band's EP of the same name, released in October 2016. Fans can watch the video now below!

Television Generation will also be headlining Moe's Original BBQ later this month alongside Grace's Period, Snackcakes & Beer and The Two-Fifties. Purchase tickets now HERE. - the Prelude Press


"ALBUM REVIEWS: Television Generation – Fuchsia"

If you were handed the latest Television Generation EP, Fucshsia, with the release date scratched out, you would reasonably guess this album was produced in 1992, not 2016. The cover photo uses a heavy fuchsia filter that immediately recalls countless concert posters from Seattle in the early ’90s. Then, after listening, you’d be certain Television Generation is a lost contemporary of Nirvana and Mudhoney. Is the band in on the ruse? Television Generation grew up in the ’80s.

The ’90s nostalgia, however, is not a fatal flaw. Television Generation works to show how this nearly three-decades old sound is still entirely relevant today. The angsty vocals, lo-fi production, melodic-yet-noisey guitars, and punk rock attitude still ring true and feel contemporary. At times, however, Fuchsia crosses over from revitalizing the grunge sound into straight-forward imitation, which is a shame. The band is best when they play the music through its own lens.

Television Generation has declared its mission “to destroy pop music as we know it.” Surely this was the mission of more than a few ’90s alt and grunge bands as well. But it was also the mission of punk in the ’70s. And I guess as long as that mission isn’t accomplished we will have bands like Television Generation using the musical weapons from times past to fight on. - NoCo Scene Magazine


"Television Generation's New EP Fuchsia + Their Move Into the Denver Music Scene"

By: Claire Woodcock

Will Hayden (vocals/guitar), Katy Johnson (bass), and Anthony Elio (drums) split from Boulder for the Denver area after their respective exits from CU, where Television Generation came to be. That was in 2012, when the EDM scene was exclusively big in Boulder and there was little wiggle room in the music scene for a punk rock presence.

"I think Boulder has a problem with being a transient kind of place,” said Hayden. “Tons of people go [there] for college; these people come and most of them go. People just move away. And a lot of the bands that we saw pop up when we were in college are no longer active.”

TVG set their sights on the Denver scene and recorded their first EP If Only I Had A Brain with Mammoth Cave Recording Studios in 2013. After some feedback from producer Lance Bendiksen (The Fray), Hayden and Elio broke out the metronome and put more hours into mastering their ’60s pop, ’90s grunge, alt rock energy. Johnson joined TVG a few months after the band released their second EP Digital Static (2015), a release that includes a track called “Space Invaders” mixed by Jack Endino from Nirvana.

A year later, Television Generation has released their third EP Fuchsia with Todd Divel of Silo Sound Recording Studio in Denver. Hayden says they went into their first session thinking that they would only have time to lay down one or two tracks. But the result was an EP’s worth of tunes recorded over the course of just a few hours. It could have been the Simpsons references exchanged between TVG and Divel that kept things grooving. Or it could have just been, as Johnson said, “We were having a really good day.”

Check out Television Generation’s latest EP, Fuchsia:


Fuchsia operates on a sliding scale between garage rock, post-punk, super punk, (if that were legitimate genre) and alt rock. Television Generation told me they drew inspiration for this release from The Beatles, The Who and most notably, Sonic Youth. Johnson employs a Kim Gordon-esque style on Fuchsia by creating a lot of garage rock noise and manipulating the distortion and delay pedals to produce all kinds of uncomfortable, yet totally satisfying feedback in the middle of pop songs.

Back on the subject of the Denver scene, Hayden said that when Johnson joined the group, the trio started checking out other punk acts, which has become a huge support system for TVG.

“That’s what a music scene is and should be.” said Hayden.

Branching out from Boulder to Denver allowed TVG to not only meet talented bands, but to get a sense of the quality of the younger bands popping up from all over the place.

“The flux of people to Colorado probably helps because there's a lot of fresh blood out here and they're looking for places to play, and that's kind of what I was saying about Boulder [being transient],” said Hayden. “There are a lot of people coming in from out of state obviously for the weed and all that, and a lot of people see it as a bad thing, but I think it's really good for the music [scene]. It brings in a lot of fresh, excited people and I think that’s what we haven’t seen in years past: that excitement in people finding local bands. There’s enough talent and enough people interested, so let's blow it up as much as we can.”

TVG thinks that these trends in the Denver music scene will only continue to soar.

“We could make Denver the new Seattle.” Hayden added, with enough conviction in his voice that the possibility could someday be true.
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This Sunday, November 6th, Television Generation will ‘Rock Against Trump’ at Seventh Circle Music Collective with an anti-Trump CD release show, featuring a whole laundry list of bands in the Denver punk scene. If you’re looking to rage the day before the election, this is where you should be. Proceeds will be donated to the Standing Rock protesters and Amnesty International.

Keep up with Television Generation here.

-Claire - Bolder Beat


"Television Generation ... Rock/Alternative Band out of Denver"

Radio interview - Pop Roxx Radio


Discography

2015 - Digital Static EP
2016 - Fuchsia EP
2017 - Untitled EP Due Summer 2017

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TVG is an indie rock band with a proto-punk sound that ranges from fast paced punk rock to stoney slacker anthems, rich with catchy melodies and gritty guitar riffs.

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