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.
| 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 | |||
| Places You Call Home | teen 006 | ||||
| Solarbaby | The Power of Negative Prayer | teen 007 | |||
| Whoever | teen 008 | ||||
| Uncrated Distant Star EP | CD, EP | teen 009 | |||
| 122 Greige | Moving Away from the Sun | CD | teen 010 | ||
| Volume I | teen 012 | ||||
| 1999 | Kid Lunch | teen 011 | |||
| Lonnie James | Dee-O | teen-14 | |||
| Thanatopop | Four Track Mind | teen 015 | |||
| 2000 | Peaches | CD, EP | teen017, teen 3017-2 | ||
| The Exploders | Who's Who & What's What | 7", EP | teen 020 | ||
| Lovers Leap | CD | teen 021, teen 3021-2 | |||
| The Weekend | teen 3016-2 | ||||
| Robin Black & The Intergalactic Rock Stars | Star Shaped Single | CD, EP | teen 3018-2 | ||
| Starsandsons | CD | teen 3019-2 | |||
| 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 | ||
| teen3022 | |||||
| The Eric's Trip Show (Recorded Live in Concert 1991-1996) | teen-3025 | ||||
| Bomb You Live | teen 3028 | ||||
| 2002 | Still Life Fast Moving | teen 3030 | |||
| Teaser EP | CD, EP | teen 3029, teen 3034 (2003) | |||
| 2003 | Great Lake Swimmers | CD | teen 033 | ||
| Stinkmitt | Scratch 'N' Sniff | teen3031 | |||
| teen3032 | |||||
| 2004 | We Almost Made It Home | teen 035 | |||
| Stinkmitt | Biker Shorts (Remix) | 12" | teen 036 | ||
| 2005 | Beatbox My Heartbeat | teen37 |