TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS ANNOUNCE GLORY AU/NZ ALBUM TOUR DATES THIS MAY

Shane | 14 January 2026 | Reply

TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS ANNOUNCE GLORY AU/NZ ALBUM TOUR DATES THIS MAY

DROP NEW SINGLE + VIDEO ‘BAIT’, WRITTEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORST PERSON YOU’VE EVER MET

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 are thrilled to unveil national GLORY album tour dates – playing their biggest venues to date and a string of all-ages shows – across so-called-Australia and Aotearoa this May presented by triple j and Live Nation Australia with very special guests to be announced, and drop their “big ego, full menace mode” new single ‘BAIT’ along with its video.

TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS GLORY ALBUM TOUR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2026

Friday 1 May The Gov, Tarndanya/Adelaide (Lic/AA)
Saturday 2 May Magnet House, Boorloo/Perth (18+)
Thursday 7 May Princess Theatre – Meanjin/Brisbane (Lic/AA)
Friday 8 May Forum – Naarm/Melbourne (18+)
Saturday 9 May – Roundhouse, Gadigal Land/Sydney (Lic/AA)
Thursday 21 May – Loons, Ōtautahi/Christchurch (Lic/AA)
Friday 22 May – Tuning Fork, Tāmaki Makaura/Auckland (Lic/AA)
Saturday 23 May – San Fran, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington (Lic/AA)

+ PERFORMING AT LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2026
Saturday 7 February – Yugambeh Jagun/Gold Coast
Sunday 8 Feb – Gadigal Land/Sydney (SOLD OUT)
Friday 13 Feb – Laneway Festival – Naarm/Melbourne (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 14 Feb – Laneway Festival – Tarndanya/Adelaide
Sunday 15 Feb – Laneway Festival – Whadjuk Noongar/Perth

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.”

Produced by 3x GRAMMY Award-winning, London-based Catherine Marks (boygenius’ The Record, Wolf Alice), GLORY is an album the band say is “completely us”; the work of musicians who know exactly who they are, what they’re worth and what they want to create. Together with Marks, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers locked themselves away at a home studio nestled deep in the bush on Darkinjung Land / NSW’s Central Coast for a marathon five weeks perfecting and recording GLORY, a stretch of time that allowed the band to make these songs sound exactly as they intended. Marks stoked a creative environment where the band felt empowered to say ‘no’, encouraged them to try new approaches, and, more importantly, to bin whatever they didn’t like with wild abandon, all in order to help them arrive at the truest distillation of their sound. Every vocal, every instrumental part and every lyric on GLORY emerged exactly as the band intended, their vision ringing out true and clear and their incredible musicianship taking centre stage to create the suckerpunch power you’ll hear across the album.
Across its already-released singles ‘BALCONY’, ‘UNSCARRED’ and ‘MOTHER’ – which, along with the rest of GLORY, was mixed by 3x GRAMMY Award-winning Oli Jacobs (Kendrick Lamar, beabadoobee, Taylor Swift), mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty (Sabrina Carpenter, Lana Del Rey, Bleachers) and have collectively had more than 750,000 streams on Spotify alone – Teen Jesus have seen continued support and acclaim from triple j, Spotify’s Local Noise, New Music Friday, MARROW (US), New Noise (US) and All New Rock (US), Rolling Stone, junkee, Life Without Andy, Sydney Morning Herald, The Music, Happy, Tone Deaf and many, many others.

ABOUT TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – Anna Ryan (they/she; vocals/guitar), Scarlett McKahey (she/her; guitar/vocals), Jaida Stephenson (she/her; bass) and Neve van Boxsel (she/her; drums) – have gone from strength to strength since the release of their debut EP Pretty Good For A Girl Band (2022), with its lead single ‘Girl Sports’ landing at #55 on the triple j Hottest 100. Their debut album I Love You (2023) landed at #6 on the ARIA Charts, placed at #52 on the Hottest 100 (‘I Used To Be Fun’), with its deluxe I Love You Too (2024) featuring new singles ‘Dull’ ft. Softcult and ‘Please Me’ ft. The Linda Lindas – the former landing at #187 in triple j’s Hottest 200 this year. Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have since raked in a slew of accolades including nominations and wins at the J Awards, APRA Awards, Rolling Stone Awards, AIR Awards and Music ACT Awards, being named one of Spotify’s Artists To Watch, and being hand-picked to open for legendary international heavyweights Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam in Australia and the US. Now based across Ngunnawal/Canberra, and Naarm/Melbourne, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are just as concerned about issues facing today’s women, non-binary people and young people everywhere as they are with making music that continues to push boundaries and expectations. They are ambassadors for Green Music’s No Music on a Dead Planet, played Rising Tide on Parliament House steps, contributed to the Parliament inquiry into challenges and opportunities within the Australian live music industry and are firm supporters of Michael’s Rule. This is a band never to be pigeonholed, and definitely never underestimated.