The Rise and Fall of Lookout! Records [Book] Now Available
Lookout! Records was the birthplace of Green Day and helped flourish the underground scene. Now, there’s a book about this shit! PUNK USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout! Records tells the story through the participants own voices through hundreds of exclusive interviews.
Lawrence Livermore founded an independent label in 1987 to release records by his own band, the Lookouts. He formed a partnership with David Haynes and the label went on to release some of the most influential recordings from California’s East Bay punk scene. Bands such as Green Day, Crimpshrine, Operation Ivy, the Mr. T Experience, and many more, were released on the label.
Music journalist Kevin Prested wrote for the official Lookout! Records blog and website and now has successfully ventured onto the book, PUNK USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout! Records. It’s designed to make the reader feel good about being alive and take an active role in bettering their life and impacting the world around them. You can purchase the book now HERE.
CHAPTERS:
1. Laytonville, The Lookouts and the early days
2. Chris Appelgren
3. Stikky, Plaid Retina and Sewer Trout
4. .Mordam Records, Yeastie Girlz
5. Operation Ivy, The Thing That Ate Floyd
6. Green Day, The Lookouts and David Hayes
8. Livermore, Appelgren and Hynes
9. Fifteen, Green Day and Al Sobrante
11. The Shit Split and Can of Pork
12. Kerplunk, Backwater Boys and a 5th
13. 1991 : The year of the Weasel
14. New romances, New bands, New Classics
15. The Queers, Queercore, & the new Lookout
16. The pre punk explosion, label departures
17. Green Day Leaves, Lookout Expands
20. Weasel Vs Vapid
21. Larry’s new band, Downfall, Sweet Baby
23. Cathy Bauer & the MTX Starship
24. The Riverdales & other new arrivals
27. Weasel Vs Livermore, Lookout Record Store, The Smugglers and the Queers hit Japan
28. Furious George VS Lookout, Music Videos
29. Larry leaves, Ernst VS Green Day.
30. Samplers and the revenge of Furious George
32. The Donnas, 10 Year Anniversary
34. Lookout’s ‘Nero’ and a Queers Casualty.
35. The Avengers, The Donna’s get skintight
37. Disappointments, Departures and divorces
38. Panic Button cashes out
SPECS
ISBN: 9781621066125
Published: December 2014
Format: Paperback, 5×8″, 192 Pages
Subjects: Music / Business
Price: $14.95 U.S.
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About the Author
Denise Borders 39, Los Angeles. Denise founded PWV in 2008 and remains the primary manager and photographer/videographer. She is not secretly obsessed with Joey Cape.
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