Teenage USA Recordings

Teenage USA Recordings is a Canadian independent record label, founded by Phil Klygo and Mark DiPietro^[1][2] in the fall of 1997 on the back of Klygo's Skull Geek record label and fanzine.

The label, based in Toronto, has released records by artists such as Elevator, Eric's Trip, The Weekend, Pecola, Gaffer, Smallmouth, Peaches, Stink Mitt, Dan Bryk, Kid Lunch, Thanatopop, Cecil Seaskull, Two-Minute Miracles, Lonnie James, Blood Meridian, Solar Baby, Robin Black, The Zoobombs, The Exploders, 122 Greige, The Killer Elite, Neck, and Mean Red Spiders.

Song Corporation bought into the label in 2000 and named Klygo and DiPietro as Song's Directors of Artistic Development.^[3][4] Following Song's bankruptcy a year later, the pair regained ownership of their label and signed a distribution deal with Outside Music. Shortly thereafter, DiPietro took a job at Outside, running their in-house label in addition to teenage USA. Klygo took over as Festival Director at Canadian Music Week, as well as starting a new experimental gallery-salon space with artist Germaine Koh called (weewerk) that eventually became a record label.

Teenage USA Recordings discography

Year	Artist	Title	Type	Catalog number
1996	Pecola	Dat Hoang EP	EP	teen 002
	Smallmouth	All Ports in Frequent Seas		teen001
1998	Pecola/Smallmouth	Pecola / Smallmouth	7"	teen 003
	Lonnie James	This Land is Your Land	CD	teen 004
	Gaffer	Snow Falls Like Stars		teen 005
	Mean Red Spiders	Places You Call Home		teen 006
	Solarbaby	The Power of Negative Prayer		teen 007
	Cecil Seaskull	Whoever		teen 008
	Neck	Uncrated Distant Star EP	CD, EP	teen 009
	122 Greige	Moving Away from the Sun	CD	teen 010
	The Two-Minute Miracles	Volume I		teen 012
1999	Kid Lunch	Kid Lunch		teen 011
	Lonnie James	Dee-O		teen-14
	Thanatopop	Four Track Mind		teen 015
2000	Peaches	Peaches	CD, EP	teen017, teen 3017-2
	The Exploders	Who's Who & What's What	7", EP	teen 020
	Dan Bryk	Lovers Leap	CD	teen 021, teen 3021-2
	The Weekend	The Weekend		teen 3016-2
	Robin Black & The Intergalactic Rock Stars	Star Shaped Single	CD, EP	teen 3018-2
	Mean Red Spiders	Starsandsons	CD	teen 3019-2
	Elevator	Taste of Complete Perspective	CD, LP	teen 3023
2001	Various	Ear Candy Song Sampler: January 2001 "Cherry"	CD	SEC01-01
	Gord Disley	Shots Fired		teen 024
	The Killer Elite	"End of a Whip / Talk About the City"	7"	teen 026
	The Exploders	New Variations	CD	teen 027
	The Two-Minute Miracles	Volume II: Thirteen Songs from the House of Miracles		teen3022
	Eric's Trip	The Eric's Trip Show (Recorded Live in Concert 1991-1996)		teen-3025
	Zoobombs	Bomb You Live		teen 3028
2002	Mean Red Spiders	Still Life Fast Moving		teen 3030
	The Weekend	Teaser EP	CD, EP	teen 3029, teen 3034 (2003)
2003	Great Lake Swimmers	Great Lake Swimmers	CD	teen 033
	Stinkmitt	Scratch 'N' Sniff		teen3031
	The Two-Minute Miracles	Volume III: The Silence of Animals		teen3032
2004	Blood Meridian	We Almost Made It Home		teen 035
	Stinkmitt	Biker Shorts (Remix)	12"	teen 036
2005	The Weekend	Beatbox My Heartbeat		teen37

See also

• List of record labels

References

1. Everett-Green, Robert. "Indies may hold key to the future", The Globe and Mail, 2002-04-13, p. R13.
2. Wilson, Carl. "The music born of creative misremembering", The Globe and Mail, 2000-10-12, p. R9.
3. Hayes, David (February 2002). "Song corpse: it seemed like the answer to the industry's prayers. Allan Gregg's record label promised to combine the artistic integrity of an indie with the corporate clout of a major", Toronto Life 36 (2): 76.
4. "Teen USA purchased by Song Corp". Chart. 2000-03-10. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved 2009-10-10.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

External links

• Teenage USA website
• (weewerk) website