Teens in Trouble

Eulogy Presents: Teenage Halloween

with Teens in Trouble, Kerosene Heights, & Good Trauma

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024

Eulogy - 10 Buxton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801

Doors 7PM || Show 8PM

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.

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. Sequestering herself away from the world, Killian looked back on her years of youth in revolt and found her way forward as an artist. All four tracks on the EP, from brooding “Old Starnes Cove Road” to the propulsive “Decomposing,” emerged as if summoned from the ink-stained pages of an old journal.

The response was instantaneous and thrilling. Teens in Trouble released their self-titled debut EP last fall via Asian Man Records, and has since been featured in Alternative Press, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Stereogum, and more. Two of the EP’s singles, “I’m Not Worried” and “Decomposing,” have also been featured in the popular online battle royale game Fortnite. Teens in Trouble is “ready to take the power-pop scene by storm,” wrote Consequence’s Jonah Krueger. “Catchy, energetic, and equal parts Weezer and Jeff Rosenstock, rarely do artists hit upon such gold while only having a cumulative nine minutes of material released.”

Kerosene Heights

Kerosene Heights is an emo punk band from Asheville, NC. Blending distorted twinkly riffs, shouty vocals, and sincere lyrics, the band carries the torch of earlier emo bands. Their debut LP, Southeast of Somewhere, was released 5/19/23 via No Sleep Records.

Good Trauma

Good Trauma is the lifelong musical project of Elijah Raymer. Once just a solo side project, Good Trauma has now evolved into a 6 piece, wielding three guitars, a violin, a classic rhythm section and occasionally a pedal steel and auxiliary percussionist. Their sound is hard to nail down, often genre bending with heavy focus on indie rock, classic county, and Neo-psychedelia.

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