Teen-Beat

10/03/2025

That's right, it's another Bandcamp Friday today. While we usually go for visiting real record shops before anything else, Bandcamp ain't too shabby.

https://teen-beat.bandcamp.com

09/10/2025

Teenbeat distribution circa 1986:

Systematic (distributor, San Francisco)
Toxic Shock (distributor, Pomona CA)
Venus Records (store on West 8th Street near 6th NYC, 2nd floor)
Yesterday & Today Records (Rockville, MD)
99 Records (99 MacDougal Street New York)
Smash Records (M Street, Georgetown, DC)
Pier Platters (record shop, Hoboken NJ)
Ra**ch Records (Salt Lake City) ???
Orpheus Records (M Street, Georgetown, DC)
9:30 Club (nightclub with small record shop in the basement, downtown Washington DC)
Rocks in Your Head (record shop, SOHO, New York)

09/05/2025

OUT TODAY!

at teenbe.at and
https://uncomfortablepolice.bandcamp.com/album/hazmat-kat

Uncomfortable Police�(Mark Robinson + Trevor hollAnd)�Hazmat Kat �Debut 7” EP �(4 Songs Not on the LP) �
Mark Robinson and Trevor Kampmann are Uncomfortable Police. They have been collaborating for years. First as Fang Wizard (2011) and then Party Milk in 2023. Their new 15-song Michelin Star Hardcore album came out a couple of months ago and has garnered rave reviews. Hot on the heels of this success, they give us HAZMAT KAT.��This is a limited edition of only 100 and will not be available on the streaming services (save for Bandcamp).��(catalogue number: TEENBEAT 593)

Our 2025 line-up.

So far.

1 - UNREST — Perfect Teeth 30th Anniversary LP
2 - hollAnd — Trash Polka 7” EP
3 - UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE — Exile on Wall Street single
4 - UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE — Michelin Star Hardcore LP
5 - UNREST — Perfect Teeth 30th Anniversary 2 x CD gatefold
6 - UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE — Bandcamp Foodstamp single
7 - Teenbeat Phonographic Cork Slipmat
8 - UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE — Adjunct Punk CD
9 - AMATEUR ON PLASTIC — movie BLU-RAY disk
10 - UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE — Hazmat Kat 7” EP
11 - Teenbeat Metal 7” 45 Phonograph Adaptor (SECOND EDITION with new colors!)

08/01/2025

A recent episode of Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About features our TUSCADERO!

***The setlist for each show can be found in the comments (below)*** In addition to sharing an hour of obscure and wonderful indie-pop, this week's show also features a visit from our special guest — Alicia of the band Jeanines. Jeanines write charming dreamscapes of textured indie pop. The band j...

08/01/2025

Our brand new 2025 Teenbeat stickers (adhesive labels) have arrived. A beautiful new design inspired by the dazzle ships of over 100 years ago.

One comes free with each Teenbeat mail order, or you can order a pack of four.









This is Teenbeat 189.

http://teenbe.at/items/189.html

07/03/2025

MARK ROBINSON talks about UNREST in an interview in Tinnitist.

Mark Robinson was the leader of the seminal D.C. experimental punk band Unrest. 1987’s Tink of S.E. (their third release but proper debut) was a prog-punk masterpiece. Each song was a triumph of c…

06/11/2025

For those of you in the UK or Europe who want a copy of the new UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE record without having to pay the oversaeas shipping costs, it is now available online at Monorail!

https://monorailmusic.com/product/michelin-star-hardcore/

05/30/2025

The Teen-Beat Newsletter! (No.173.)
New Album Out Today from Mark Unrest and Trevor hollAnd-
https://mailchi.mp/5a603a7fd7dc/00mo7i68ai-9678495

05/30/2025

OUT TODAY!

Uncomfortable Police�Michelin Star Hardcore �Mark Robinson from UNREST�+ Trevor from hollAnd�The Debut Album

Mark Robinson and Trevor Kampmann are Uncomfortable Police. They have been collaborating for years. First as Fang Wizard (2011) and then Party Milk in 2023. While those LPs are primarily instrumental, this new 15-song Michelin Star Hardcore album sees them both getting in front of the microphone as lead and background singers. Mark started and starred in the bands UNREST (who just released the 30th Anniversary edition of their Perfect Teeth album with 4AD), AIR MIAMI, FLIN FLON, GRENADINE and more. Trevor’s records his solo material until the moniker hollAnd for years and has produced and mastered albums by the likes of CAT POWER and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY.��

Take a listen on Bandcamp or on your favorite streaming service and see what you think. We have vinyl phonograph records available to consider if you are duly impressed.

on Bandcamp:
https://uncomfortablepolice.bandcamp.com/album/michelin-star-hardcore

on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/73wcele6pUAjviSSxl7AOf

on Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/michelin-star-hardcore/1813420955

on long-playing vinyl phonograph record:
https://teenbe.at/items/577.html

Distributed by Midheaven / Revolver

05/27/2025

Teenbeat
Phonographic Cork Slip-Mat
No.586

Introducing a phonographic slip-map made from the finest, most pure cork available on the planet earth. For the best vibration absorption, use cork slip-mats. Use Teenbeat cork slip-mats. It features a beautiful two-colour design by our crack in-house Teenbeat Graphica team. No only will your listening experience will be enhanced, but the appearance of your hi-fi system set-up will improve as well.��Compatible with phonograph records in these sizes: 12 inches, 10 inches, and seven inches. It will additionally work with any size record in between as well as with 16-inch transcription records. A champion slip-mat no matter how you slice it. (Though you should be careful not to). Our price includes safe and protective shipping and handling.

https://teenbe.at/items/586.html

Available now at teenbe.at��ALSO: BACK IN STOCK:
The second edition of our high quality metal 7” 45 adaptor (created by )

https://teenbe.at/items/566.html

05/24/2025

UNREST's Perfect Teeth LP + 2xCDs are still available at www.teenbe.at !

One of Washington, DC’s finest ever bands, Unrest also blazed a trail out of the 1980s underground scene, smack dab into the middle of the indie era without ever making a bad record. In fact,…

05/24/2025

NOT our manifesto, but an interesting take on TEENBEAT from a non-human source.