SONG PREMIERE: Television City Goes Intrepid & Bold With “Brenda Lived By The Lake” Off Self Titled Debut On 4/27

Brian Raleigh has been playing rock & roll long enough to know the odds career-wise, and that it doesn’t pay to wear your heart on your sleeve in a world where shtick sells better than truth and soul. But for good or ill, Raleigh refuses to give up the ghost, and after fighting the good fight with his bands Porchsleeper and Fidrych (not to mention plenty of other projects that drifted under the radar), he’s back with a new project, Television City. And it’s clear Raleigh hasn’t given up on rock for a really good reason — he’s good at it, and he and his friends having a blast playing it.Television City finds Raleigh and his cohorts mixing up a roots rocker’s love of a good melody, a rock dude’s passion for big guitars, and an aging punk’s undying affection for energy and snarky wit. Then add in the no-bullshit heart, soul, and sweat of a guy who has spent years wearing out albums by the Replacements, Springsteen, and Soul Asylum, among the many acts who’ve left their mark on his musical imagination.

Television City is Raleigh’s vehicle — he writes the songs, sings lead, and plays guitar — but he knows a good rock band is rarely a one man show, and he’s assembled a great team of like-minded musicians to help bring the tunes to life. His partners in Television City are local guitar hero Garret Bielniec, Kristin Von B. (Crossed Lines and Betty Cooper) on piano and backing vocals, Chuck Bartels (Bettye LaVette and Sturgill Simpson) on bass, David Below (Brandon Calhoon and Radium) on drums, along with keyboards from Dave Feeny (Blanche and American Mars).

Glide is very proud to premiere “Brenda Lived By The Lake” from Television City’s self-titled debut album due April 27, 2018. Television City deliver this boozy rocker with the irritated kick of Drive by Truckers and the road house rhythm of bygone golden greats. 

“That summer between High School graduation and whatever comes next. Three months of teenage hormones and great expectations fighting it out in the backroads alleys and trusty woods of mid Michigan,” recalls Raleigh, “I wrote Brenda driving through the small town I grew up in and remembering that summer. The names have been changed to protest the innocent, but the sentiment remains… “She had a swimmer’s body and a skeptic’s nose”. She sure did.”

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