BAND ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH SUPER SKATE POSSE + BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BALTIMORE FOR GIVEAWAY, SKATE DEMO, + PERFORMANCE
HEADLINE TOUR HAPPENING NOW!
BAND TOURING WITH JOYCE MANOR NEXT SPRING
Washington, DC punk duo TEEN MORTGAGE — guitarist/vocalist James Guile and drummer EdBarakauskas — are getting festive with their new holiday track “Below the Christmas Tree.”
Of course, in typical Teen Mortgage fashion, it’s ANYTHING but a typical holiday track.
“We wanted to give people a new Christmas song to throw in their rotation because the usual Christmas hits get tedious to listen to,” states Guile. “The song is a satire of people’s tendency to ignore the world and embrace consumerism during Christmas and the way they would continue the tradition in the face of a nuclear holocaust. But the flip side of that is that Christmas is a call for peace.”
Teen Mortgage are also partnering with Super Skate Posse and the Boys and Girls Club of Baltimore to provide 50 pre-selected, area youths with new skateboards, helmets, and Converse sneakers, along with a skate demo and music performance in Baltimore.
Guile says, “We’re insanely proud to offer kids a chance to be part of the skate community in Baltimore and maybe get inspired to be in a band too.”
The event will take place at the Skatepark Of Baltimore, locate at 1201 W 36th Street, Baltimore, MD on Saturday, November 22 from 2 to 3pm, and will include demos from professional skaters Brian Anderson, Darren Harper, Spencer Brown, and Tony Massey, as well as a full performance from the band.
The Super Skate Posse Givebacks partner with local organizations across America to remove the cost barrier of access to the mental health benefits of skateboarding through a one of a kind experience to underserved youth. This is the first time the event will take place in Baltimore and is sponsored by The Boys And Girls Club Of Baltimore, Converse, Good360, Lingraphica, No Expectations, Team Bonding, Vu Skateshop, JBL Audio, Polio Treading, and Primary Wave.
“It’s an honor to work with Teen Mortgage to uplift the youth of Baltimore. It may not be common knowledge but lead singer, James Guile, is a lifelong skateboarder. I commend James and Edward Barakauskas for identifying a need for resources in their community and taking action,” says Chris Nieratko, Executive Director, Super Skate Posse.
In addition to this special performance, the band will perform at two holiday-themed shows. The will appear at the Jingle Bell Roxy LA on December 10. Jingle Bell Rox is a 13-night concert series in partnership with Union Rescue Mission. There will be a donation drive at each show to support those in need this season.
The band will also perform at Blissmas 25 with Better Lovers, Glassjaw, Saves the Day, Terror, Onyx, Haywire 617, Koyo, and Johnny Booth on December 13.
Teen Mortgage recently teamed up with Revolver to premiere the lyric video for gloriously discordant, grimy punk new single “DISAPPEAR.” Watch and listen here and here. The band’s debut album DEVIL ULTRASONIC DREAM is out now via Roadrunner Records. Get it here. Teen Mortgage also recently remixed the DEVO classic “Whip It” for the 45th anniversary of DEVO’s Freedom Of Choice album, which is available exclusively as a KiTAlbum.
Teen Mortgage, who have shared stages with the likes of Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, are in the middle of a headline tour. Get tickets here. They will hit the road hard in 2026, as well, as they are set to tour with Joyce Manor, Militarie Gun, and Combat next spring. All dates are below.
TEEN MORTGAGE ON TOUR:
HEADLINE 2025:
11/12 — Louisville, KY — Zanzabar
11/14 — Indianapolis, IN — Turntable
11/15 — Lakewood, OH — Mahall’s
11/16 — Pittsburgh, PA — Bottlerocket Social Hall
HOLIDAY SHOWS:
12/10 — West Hollywood, CA — The Roxy Theatre
12/13 — Buffalo, NY— Buffalo RiverWorks
WITH JOYCE MANOR, MILITARIE GUN, + COMBAT:
SPRING 2026:
3/09 — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren
3/11 — Austin, TX — Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
3/12 — Houston, TX — House of Blues Houston
3/13 — Dallas, TX — House of Blues Dallas
3/14 — New Orleans, LA — House of Blues New Orleans
3/16 — Orlando, FL — House of Blues Orlando
3/17 — Atlanta, GA — Buckhead Theatre
3/18 — N. Myrtle Beach, SC — House Of Blues Myrtle Beach
3/20 — Baltimore, MD — Nevermore Hall
3/21 — Boston, MA — Citizens House of Blues Boston
3/22 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore Philadelphia
3/24 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
3/25 — Buffalo, NY — Asbury Hall
3/26 — Toronto, ON Canada — The Danforth Music Hall
3/27 — Detroit, MI — Majestic Theatre
3/28 — Chicago, IL — The Salt Shed
4/26 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee
4/27 — Minneapolis, MN — Varsity Theater
4/30 — Des Moines, IA — Wooly’s
5/01 — St. Louis, MO — Delmar Hall
5/02 — Lawrence, KS — Liberty Hall
5/04 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium
5/05 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Depot
5/07 — Great Falls, MT — The Newberry
5/08 — Calgary, AB Canada — The Palace Theatre
5/09 — Edmonton, AB Canada — Midway Music Hall
5/11 — Vancouver, BC Canada — Commodore Ballroom
5/12 — Seattle, WA — The Showbox
5/13 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theater
5/15 — San Francisco, CA — The Fillmore
ABOUT TEEN MORTGAGE:
Teen Mortgage are here with a full can of gasoline, as the world burns, to help brighten our day. Hailing from England, guitarist and frontman James Guile had been noodling with the Teen Mortgage project under various monikers for years all the while building a sound laden with sociopolitical commentary spun into anthems with heavy mosh pit energy and influenced by classic ’80s punk bands. After relocating to Maryland five years ago, where the trash fire in D.C. burns brightest, he posted a “DRUMMER WANTED” classified ad along with some early TEEN MORTGAGEdemos on Craigslist as sort of a joke. Luckily, drummer (and former nurse) Edward Barakauskas knows funny and the universe knew we needed Teen Mortgage now more than ever, the rest is, as they say, musical history.The duo spent the following years trying not to die and growing the Teen Mortgage brand in the DMV. In between a global pandemic and Ed serving as an ER frontline worker, they managed to drop an EP and a number of singles before signing to Roadrunner Records in 2024. In April 2025, coming off of touring with Weezer and The Smashing Pumpkins, Ed and James deliver their first full length album Devil Ultrasonic Dream, which continues on their narrative about trying to enjoy life despite living through the age of tech feudalism, American oligarchy, and military industrial complex.The title Devil Ultrasonic Dream leans into 1980’s “Satanic Panic” in rock and roll as the nation shifts further into fascist Christian theocracy and censorship.
Not sure if he was going to wake up dead on any given morning, Guile kept the creative process on D.U.S.D. simple, saying. “I just wrote the demos over the period of the last year between touring. I wrote like 25 songs, we picked the best 11. We went to the same studio we’ve been going to for the bulk of our recording career; worked with Kenny Eaton at Mystery Ton Studios, and made the better version of what we did before. The guitars are recorded better, the drums are recorded better, vocals are recorded better. We went on tour with Weezer and the Smashing Pumpkins and I just got blown away with that sound of Billy Corgan’s layering of guitars so there’s just big ass guitars on this one and the lyrics are a lot better as well.”Not that he gives two shits about being categorized, when asked what box he thinks the band might be put in with this album, Guile responds, “I think punk is so loosely defined, especially hardcore in the year 2025 is like so loosely defined. I’ve heard people call us surf hardcore; I’ll take that. I can think maybe the Dead Kennedys is like a surf hardcore band, but I just call it punk or garage punk. I feel like if it’s garage punk there’s more of a template to do whatever you want with it; it doesn’t put you as much in that hardcore box. I’ll accept it if people think we’re hardcore, soft core, whatever. Fuck it.”
