UK/EU Summer 2024

Teen Mortgage have announced their first German dates for June 2024. The fuzz punk duo from Washington, D.C., emerged from the city's punk primordial soup in 2017 after guitarist/vocalist James Guile moved to the U.S. capital from Liverpool, U.K., and by a stroke of luck found drummer Ed Barkauskas through a desperate Craigslist ad. As a duo, they distinguished themselves by crossing the aggression of East Coast hardcore and garage/surf sleaze with a good dose of pop sensibility. This sonic blend provided the perfect backdrop for singer and guitarist James Guile to illustrate what he describes as "the absurdity of life in the age of late capitalism and technological feudalism". He adds: "This is even woven into our name, as Mortgage means 'promise of death' in Latin.

Brooklyn, NY-based label King Pizza Records took notice of Teen Mortgage's biting intensity, releasing the duo's 2019 EP "Life/Death" and 2021 EP "Smoked". The songs on the EPs earned Teen Mortgage appearances on Shameless, Vans Park Series and Evil Bikes, as well as support slots for well-known bands such as The Chats, Mike Krol, Bass Drum Of Death, Jeff The Brotherhood and many more.