Teenage Halloween and Dead Billionaires w/ Teens In Trouble and Bat Boy

at The Camel

Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

Doors at 7, Music at 8

$12 ADV $15 DOS

Teenage Halloween

“You’re not alone, and I need to change”.

Teenage Halloween deal in strident, ripping power pop out of New Jersey. Newest album, Till You Return, serves up 13 songs that reach out a hand to those in need, whilst looking deep within to uncover personal failings and private yearnings. Gender identity, state abuses, finding solace in mental illness, and radical self awareness all vie for space among searing arrangements typified by heartfelt vocals and irrepressible energy.

The band, which operated as a ‘rotating cast’ in its early years, is now firmly entrenched as an essential four-piece comprised of Luk Henderiks (vocals, guitar) alongside Eli Frank (lead guitar, vocals), Tricia Marshall (bass, vocals) and Peter Gargano (drums). The quartet maintain the vital energy of their previous incarnations, but bring an even more focused punch. The result leaves greater room for Henderiks’s lyrics and renews the band’s sonic mission to uplift themselves and those around them.

Praise for Teenage Halloween's Till You Return (Released Oct 2023 on Don Giovanni):

"One of those bands... who never really sound like anyone else on the planet." - BrooklynVegan

“As explosive as ever” - KEXP

"The kind of hooks that immediately announce themselves as earworms" - Paste Magazine

“bash[ing] and thrash[ing] with howling magnetic energy” - Stereogum

More info: linktr.ee/teenagehalloween

Dead Billionaires

Dead Billionaires are a ramshackle band bent on scratching a primal itch -- empowering audiences through effervescent, driving rock n roll.

Formerly known as Little River Creek Police, Dead Billionaires started as the songwriting project of frontman Warren Campbell in 2016 in Richmond Virginia. Operating as a small collective with a fluid lineup, the band wields music as a tool for grappling with the problems of our modern society, while having a hell of a lot of fun doing it.

Their debut LP "Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book" --named after a 1990s government-issued instructional book for children-- serves a guidebook for all those navigating the disenfranchising fog of our capitalist society.

Teens In Trouble

“Does it make you want to rock out? Does it make you want to cry?”

If the answer is both at once, you’re probably listening to Teens in Trouble. Specializing in catchy hooks, heavy guitars, and disarmingly direct lyricism, the bright-blazing creative project of Lizzie Killian makes anthemic, emotionally driven indie-rock that merges the snappy, confessional style of Weezer with the Pixies’ soaring, fuzzed-out melodies. The band’s ever-evolving sound is most informed, though, by Killian’s ability to refract these influences through a prism of memory, melding past and present with sun-dappled clarity and a cathartic vocal power that’s distinctly hers.

A California native who moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2019, Killian crafted Teens in Trouble’s self-titled debut EP during the pandemic, on a quiet street in Asheville, where she rekindled her love of songwriting following an extended hiatus. Since its 2022 release, Teens in Trouble has been featured in Alternative Press, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Stereogum, and more. The EP’s singles, “I’m Not Worried” and “Decomposing,” have also been featured in the popular online battle royale game Fortnite.

In 2023, Teens in Trouble teamed up with bluesy alt-country artist Desert Mambas on a split EP released by Kill Rock Stars and Asian Man Records.

Teens in Trouble is named one of idobi Radio's “100 Rising Artists You Need To Listen To in 2024.”