Teen-Beat

10/24/2025

The Teen-Beat Newsletter! (No.176.) -

MARK ROBINSON has recorded the soundtrack to a motion picture game — commonly referred to as a "video game." Home Free was created by the gamemaker Kevin Cancienne and features an "open-world action-RPG starring a dog lost in a sprawling, randomly generated city." He tells us that "RPG" means role...

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/