Punk USA : The Rise and Downfall of Lookout! Records.
Title:
Punk USA : The Rise and Downfall of Lookout! Records.
Author:
Prested, Kevin.
ISBN:
9781621069201
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Half Title -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Lookouts on Spy Rockroad -- Chapter 2: The Young Apprentice -- Chapter 3: A Vision and Sound Forming -- Chapter 4: From Grooves to Ears -- Chapter 5: Things that Ate Floyd -- Chapter 6: 1,000 Hours -- Chapter 7: Showcase -- Chapter 8: The New Lineup -- Chapter 9: Roots Deepening -- Chapter 10: From Laundromats to Compact Discs -- Chapter 11: Sht, Pork, & Love -- Chapter 12: Keerplunk -- Chapter 13: The Year of the Weasel -- Chapter 14: New Romances -- Chapter 15: The Queers & Queercore -- Chapter 16: Departures -- Chapter 17: Signatures -- Chapter 18: Punk Goes Pop -- Chapter 19: Big Venues -- Chapter 20: Weasel V. Vapid -- Chapter 21: Downfall -- Chapter 22: Hits & Misses -- Chapter 23: The Mtx Starship -- Chapter 24: The Riverdales -- Chapter 25: Dont Back Down -- Chapter 26: New Unions -- Chapter 27: Weasel V.Livermore -- Chapter 28: Furious George V.Lookout -- Chapter 29: New Management, Ernst V. Green Day -- Chapter 30: Samplers, Criminals, & the Revenge of Furious George -- Chapter 31: Expansions, the Donnas, Ten Year Anniversary -- Chapter 32: A Panicked Changing of the Guard -- Chapter 33: Lookouts Nero & a Queers Casualty -- Chapter 34: The New Lookout -- Chapter 35: The Starship Crashes into the Digital Age -- Chapter 36: The Pattern: Disappointments, Departure, Divorces -- Chapter 37: Cashing Out -- Chapter 38: Losing Green Day,Losing Face -- Chapter 39: The Great Unraveling.
Abstract:
Through hundreds of exclusive and original interviews, Punk USA documents an empire that was built overnight as Lookout! Records sold millions of albums and rode the wave of the second coming of punk rock until it all came crashing down. In 1987, Lawrence Livermore founded an independent punk label to release records by his band the Lookouts. Forming a partnership with David Hayes, the label released some of the most influential recordings from California's East Bay punk scene, including a then-teenaged Green Day. Originally operating out of a bedroom, Lookout! Records created the "East Bay Punk sound," with bands such as Crimpshrine, Operation Ivy, the Mr. T Experience, and many more. The label helped to pave the way for future punk upstarts, and as Lookout! grew, young punk entrepreneurs used the label as a blueprint to try their hand at record pressing.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Click to View