Generationals share Lincoln Hall footage, "Just Like Heaven" cover

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Generationals Share Live at Lincoln Hall Footage
Includes The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" and More
Southwest Tour Dates with Sarah Jaffe Starting March 3rd
Latest Album Reader As Detective out now on Polyvinyl

"Known for their lush, layered synths and SoundCloud-era percussion, [Generationals] craft meticulous pop arrangements bridging the gap between Oracular Spectacular electronic psych and the corresponding guitar pop of that album’s period." –FLOOD

"Honing in on electro-pop tones, Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, better known as Generationals, blend crafty lyricism with catchy pop hooks... Reader As Detective is filled with earworm after earworm..." –Paste

Generationals Live | Photo: Kendall Atwater

Today, New Orleans indie-pop duo Generationals have shared electrifying live footage from last fall's heavily-attended Reader As Detective tour. The three songs (including a cover of The Cure's 1987 classic "Just Like Heaven") were filmed live before a sold out crowd at Chicago's prestigious Lincoln Hall. The band also share their live performances of "A List of the Virtues" from 2019's Reader As Detective, and the fan-favorite show closer, "Spinoza" from 2013's Heza.

Looking back, Generationals co-vocalist/guitarist Grant Widmer shared the following –

“The Lincoln Hall show was really special. As anybody will tell you, Lincoln Hall is one of the very best-sounding clubs in America, so we had a lot of confidence from that. I remember feeling as loose and comfortable as we ever have and I think it came through in the performance. We always get a ton of energy back from the crowds in Chicago, that's something we have come to expect and we felt it very heavily at that show. I'm really glad we got good video of it because I'll want to remember that show for a while.”

Generationals will be continuing their Reader As Detective tour March 3rd in Houston, joined by Texas artist Sarah Jaffe, before wrapping up on March 11th at Fort Collins' iconic Aggie Theatre.

Tickets are now available, and a full list of tour dates are below.

Watch Generationals [LIVE FROM LINCOLN HALL]

From their inception, Generationals have existed at the convergence of classic style and contemporary technique. Students of an analog school actualized in a digital medium, Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner have always felt most comfortable reveling in this juxtaposition. Grounded in a catalog of infectious pop hooks that feel both familiar and radically new all at once, Generationals mastered their distinct voice as a means to widen the path before them.

Reader As Detective, their new full-length album, weds vintage pop canon and modern pop production in a way this duo has proven incomparably adept. From the cornerstone sample of “I Turned My Back on the Written Word,” to the playful synths & stuttered drums of “Dream Box,” and jogging rhythms of "Breaking Your Silence," Generationals continue to push the envelope by playing by their own rules.

In the years following their last album, Alix, the band experimented by releasing one-off singles and videos immediately upon their completion, which eventually formed 2018’s State Dogs collection. This method – an exploratory dive in shirking the nature of traditional album rollouts – refined how they approached writing. Freed from the album-cycle mentality, the pair was able to focus on each track autonomously, rather than as a fragment of a larger batch of songs.

Reader As Detective is the result of purposeful time spent honing Generationals’ craft as progressive songwriters. With the help of producer and longtime collaborator Dan Black, they dug into new methods of creation with a fearlessness for experimentation that is equally vital to the experience of both artist and listener. With Reader As Detective, Generationals have reached a high-water mark in an already noteworthy career – isolation and celebration set to a major key.

Tour Dates:

03/03 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs) #
03/04 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger #
03/05 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace #
03/07 - Phoenix, AZ @ M3F
03/08 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf #
03/10 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre #
03/11 - Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre #

# w/ Sarah Jaffe

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Generationals Share Live at Lincoln Hall Footage
Includes The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" and More
Southwest Tour Dates with Sarah Jaffe Starting March 3rd
Latest Album Reader As Detective out now on Polyvinyl