RAISED ON TV

Raised on TV is a three-piece, indie rock, band from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA, that was formed by brothers Keaton Rogers and Kacey Greenwood in a valley garage in 2016 and now includes Austin Rapp on bass. Since then, they have released five studio albums, while extensively touring and playing hundreds of venues and festivals all across The United States and Canada. They have been building a loyal fanbase in a no short cuts, gritty, grinding it out on the road, sort of way. They embrace the wildly varying and fun nature that comes with being an indie rock band, playing a giant festival stage one night, and a backyard college party the next. That rock and roll grit and road dog spirit is in their sound, as well as in their show whenever and wherever they play live. 

 

Back in 2017, their first album “Season 1” charted on the NACC top 200 and was described by NoGossipLA.com as “grooving from one track to the next with a familiar kick-assery that reminds us that blink-182 disciples are alive and well.” The band wanted to make an indie rock statement, recording the whole album in just three days, mostly with everyone playing in the same room. The lead single from the album,“Big Sur” helped establish the band’s dreamy California rock sound with PuregrainAudio.com describing it as “an easy-breezy (and yes, beautiful - what up, cover girl!) mix of alternative, rock and indie.” In a beaten up van they got off Craigslist, they toured up and down the west coast, from San Diego all the way to Vancouver, and all throughout the Southwest, making it as far east as New Mexico. They would end up driving that van into the ground, needing to abandon it when it broke down after a show in Las Vegas.  

 

Their second album, “Season 2,” a more polished effort, was recorded mostly at Dave Grohl’s 606 studio in Los Angeles, with Mark Needham (The Killers, Neon Trees) on board mixing a few of the singles off the album. The first single, “Caroline”, got picked up by some Spotify editorial playlists, being described by Soundsphere Magazine as a “wonderfully fuzzy, constantly building alternative rock banger of a tune – melodic in a similar vein to Silversun Pickups.”  “Soul on Fire”, the second single from the album was described by EarMilk as having “powerful jangly guitars and throbbing drums. The highly contagious roaring rock track details finding yourself in the digital age.” Season 2 opened some doors for the band. They were featured by LA Weekly, got to play “Jam in the Van,” and they were able to get a new van. They have since used that van to play everywhere possible, getting out to the East coast for the first time in the summer of 2019 for a national tour that was sponsored by the Firestone Walker beer company. A lot of early tour footage can be found in their music videos for the songs "Old Journals" and "Soul on Fire."

 

During the pandemic they focused on recording and making music videos, and released singles all throughout 2021, dropping their third studio album “Fernando” toward the end of that year, along with six music videos. One of those singles, “In the Valley,” helped them to be a featured artist of the week on Malibu’s KBUU 99.1 FM. JanglePop described the single as “mixing the crystalline jangly indie-pop of the Lost Ships with a subtle nod towards the indie-folk of The Decemberists.” That summer, they had the fortunate and surreal opportunity of being the backing band in a music video for the one and only David Hasselhoff. 

 

After the Covid shutdown, the band got back to touring, and finished their fourth studio album, "Strangers in Pictures”. It was released in 2023, along with some new music videos, in collaboration with Sell the Heart Records. This marked their first release on vinyl, as well as their first release on an indie label.  The blog Janglepophub.com described the album as having “a juxtaposition of slightly ethereal, spectral surf-rock that just about wins the fight for recognition amid the intermittent crunchy guitar riffs that seem to want to break the act free from any sense of saccharine.” 2023 was a jam packed year for the band, playing close to 100 shows (a lot of that tour footage can be seen in their video for the song “Road Dogs”), touring most of the year, and hosting monthly hometown concerts at the venue Boomtown Brewery in downtown Los Angeles. 

 

They have continued touring regionally throughout 2024 playing the Mesa Music Festival in Arizona and dozens of other venues throughout California, Arizona, and Nevada. They have also been releasing singles from their fifth studio album “Make Time to Make Time” which was also released in full on Sell the Heart Records on May 31st of 2024. The album was tracked at a house in Joshua Tree using a remote recording studio. Big Takeover magazine, when describing the album said, “this is contemporary songwriting of the indie/alt-rock interface at its finest” and the blog Mystic Sons added, “with this heady mix of killer guitar hooks and soaring choruses from start to finish, they are returning to the fold with one of their most anthemic releases so far.” The new album is now streaming and is also available on vinyl! The band will continue to tour throughout 2024, and they are beyond excited to be setting sail in the Caribbean with an amazing lineup of bands and artists in February of 2025 on Train’s “Sail Across the Sun” cruise!! 

 

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