TEEN MORTGAGE TURN UP THE HEAT WITH NEW SINGLE “BURN” — LISTEN
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE
TOUR WITH JOYCE MANOR KICKS OFF NEXT WEEK!
Washington, DC punk duo TEEN MORTGAGE — guitarist/vocalist James Guile and drummer EdBarakauskas — have shared the brand new single “BURN” ahead of their late winter/spring tour with Joyce Manor.
The lyric video premiered over at Brooklyn Vegan. Watch and listen here and here.
“BURN” boasts push and pull tension and noisy riffs, and was co-produced by Zac Carper of FIDLAR.
“There was a compelling urgency to record ‘Burn,'” says Guile. “It called to us from the ether like the green goblin mask. It’s sick to get a break from being on the road to record something that feels like a progression from our first album, Devil Ultrasonic Dream, and in time to throw in the set for our tour supporting Joyce Manor…As far as the lyrics go, I’m just saying what we’re all feeling.”
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 they are set to tour with Joyce Manor, Militarie Gun, and Combat next spring. All dates are below.
WITH JOYCE MANOR, MILITARIE GUN, + COMBAT:
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 MORTGAGE demos 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.”
