Teen-Beat

12/13/2024

The new EGGS shirts are still available to preorder. It’s a good time to get the size and color you’re looking for. And don’t forget about the Show on the 29th at galaxy hut with Andrew and Rob from Eggs and Mark from Unrest and Callahan from Sexual Milkshake.

https://www.teenbeat.net/items/086.html

12/09/2024

Teenbeat Holiday Show!

Mark Robinson (UNREST)
Andrew and Rob (from EGGS)
Callahan (SEXUAL MILKSHAKE and BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE)

Sunday, December 29th
Galaxy Hut
Arlington, Virginia

12/06/2024

The Teen-Beat Newsletter! (No.168.) - https://mailchi.mp/cb5899f737aa/00mo7i68ai-9676089

12/06/2024

“The Government Administrator” is probably Eggs’ best-known song. Released in 1993 on the Hemiola label in Leeds, England, it got picked up by legendary BBC DJ John Peel, who played the song often when he briefly had a daytime show. That provided Eggs with an entry to the U.K. and Europe, and the song even placed tenth on Peel’s 1993 year-end “Festive Fifty,” sandwiched between the Fall and Palace Brothers. Written by Andrew Beaujon after a botched attempt to please his parents by taking the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Officer Test, it’s a humorous, sometimes surreal coming-of-angst tale.

Over the past couple of years, Rob Christiansen has had many of Eggs’ old recording sessions transferred from 2-inch 24 track magnetic tape to digital storage. Sometimes he even has time to listen to them. Earlier this fall, Rob realized that Eggs originally recorded “Government Administrator” with a coda that they left off the single version. The band often played the coda live, but over the ensuing decades memories dimmed, and it was news to everyone that they’d ever recorded it.

Now you can hear the song as originally recorded, alongside two other rarities: “Love With a Tumblin’ O” and “Catch.” The former was recorded by John Morand in Richmond, Virginia in 1995 by Rob and Andrew when they visited Sound of Music studio with an eye toward recording a third Eggs record (which never happened). It was released on a small Canadian label but didn’t feel finished, so over the past few months they overdubbed parts and Rob remixed the song. The latter is a Cure cover that originally appeared on a benefit compilation called Give Me the Cure in 1995 and features Eggs’ last bassist, John Casey. It was recorded at WGNS, the studio owned by long-time Eggs collaborators Geoff Turner and Charles Bennington. We’re pretty sure it’s the last thing the band ever recorded.

To celebrate this release, Teen-Beat will reissue one of the group’s earliest T-shirt designs. It features the slogan “Tuned Mass Damper” on the front — a reference to a lyric in the group’s first single, “Skyscraper” — and a portrait of Eggs muse Astrud Gilberto on the back. You can pre-order the shirts now, and they’ll ship in January. But you can listen to “The Government Administrator” EP right now.

Listen here:
https://eggsdc.bandcamp.com/album/the-government-administrator

Pre-order a shirt here:
https://www.teenbe.at/items/086.html

11/25/2024

MARK ROBINSON will be doing a solo set of songs from almost every band he's ever been in next week in Medford, Massachusetts. Not only that, but The Ladybug Transistor and Lightheaded will be blowing everyone's minds right after.

Our East Coast dates with Lightheaded kick off on December 4th at Deep Cuts in Medford, MA. Special guest Mark Robinson (Teen-Beat) opens the evening. It’s been ages since Ladybug has visited the Boston area and we would love it if you’d say hello! More info and advance tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Vbbce051f7c4?dice_id=Vbbce051f7c4 Slumberland Records Merge Records Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records (HHBTM)

11/19/2024

And the Teenbeat numbers of the week are: Teenbeats 437 and 447. Reissues of the AIR MIAMI tapes from 1994. “Fourteen Songs” and “Sixteen Songs” respectively.

https://teenbeat.net/items/437.html

10/29/2024

10/15/2024

More shots of our popular blank Studio Series audio cassettes!

https://teenbeatrecords.com/items/587.html

10/04/2024

The original insert design for TEENBEAT 3 was found today after a years long search. Located inside the Unrest press folder (with reviews pasted on the other side.

A few things are different including a handwritten spine and the original Teenbeat logo before it was filled in with black on later editions.

09/06/2024

Jonny Cohen
Hamsters for Kerry
A New Short Album

One of the most compelling and interesting voices of our time, Mr. Jonny Cohen, is a lyricist like no other. Teenbeat's very own poet laureate has a unique and enthralling perspective that pulls you in from the very first second of listenting. The title track revisits the touching story of how presidential candidate, John Kerry, rescued the family pet hamster. The other four contributions to the album are equally brilliant and touch on a variety of topics and musical genres.

These five songs were recorded in one day—a cappella—by engineer and producer Mark Robinson. The music was then composed and recorded after the fact, in the following weeks. A pretty unusual way of making a record, but somehow it all came together and works splendidly.

The Hamsters for Kerry short album follows last year's hit album, Clambake Fiasco, which was recorded with his band, The Love Machine. That one is still available on both vinyl LP and CD.

Available on the popular cassette format as well as wirelessly and tapeless via digital streaming.
https://www.teenbe.at/items/599.html

Join us for a listening party today at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time at Bandcamp. https://thejonnycohenlovemachine.bandcamp.com/merch/hamsters-for-kerry-listening-party

09/06/2024

The Teen-Beat Newsletter! (No.167.) - https://mailchi.mp/cc9003d8a547/00mo7i68ai-6251768

08/22/2024

RIP Justin Chearno. I met Justin when we both were working at the old Olsson's Books and Records in Alexandria, Virginia. He formed the incredible band PITCHBLENDE and was also briefly in UNREST in 1990, played on the "Yes She is My Skinhead Girl" single, and joined us on our very first coast-to-coast tour with DUSTdevils.

08/05/2024

SEXUAL MILKSHAKE's classic Space Gnome and Other Hits single is featured on the cover of Henry Rollins' new book. UNREST's Bavarian Mods is on the back.

https://www.twothirteensixtyone.com/collections/frontpage/products/stay-fanatic-vol-4

08/02/2024

The Teen-Beat Newsletter! (No.166.) - https://mailchi.mp/9b8a0d032185/00mo7i68ai-6248580