TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS DROP NEW SINGLE + VIDEO ‘BAIT’
Fresh off being announced as part of the massive Laneway Festival 2026 lineup alongside Chappell Roan, Wolf Alice, Geese and more, ARIA Award-winning indie-rock four piece Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have recently dropped their “big ego, full menace mode” new single ‘BAIT’ along with its video, and unveil national GLORY album tour dates - playing their biggest venues to date and a string of all-ages shows cross so-called-Australia and Aotearoa this May presented by triple j and Live Nation Australia with very special guest Darcie Haven. Tickets are on sale 1pm local this Friday 17 October from teenjesusandthejeanteasers.net.
GLORY is an exploration of confidence, disgust, infatuation and power set against widescreen indie-rock you can strut to, and sees Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers embrace a new, messy era. GLORY is the sound of getting the bus home after a night out, mascara smeared and battery on 1%. It’s the conspiratorial eye roll you share with a girlfriend when a loser guy is talking - it’s Cher Horowitz exclaiming “Ugh, as if!” in Clueless. Also featuring the fiery ‘MOTHER’, ‘UNSCARRED’, and ‘BALCONY’, GLORY is out Nov 7 via Community Music / Mom + Pop - pre-save/pre-order HERE.
On new single ‘BAIT’, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers write from the perspective of the worst person you’ve ever met: the ego-driven music industry man who thinks he’s God’s gift to earth. Coming in at just over two minutes and propelled by a thick, muddy bass riff and punctuated by cowbell, Anna Ryan’s almost robotic vocals reflect this man’s general disinterest and come underpinned by restrained guitars chopping in off beat and swirling. The band shares, “‘BAIT’ is big ego, full menace mode. We wrote it in LA, channeling a delusional man who thinks he’s God’s gift to earth. It was fun to cosplay as someone we’d all probably hate in real life.”