Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California. The label was formed in 1987 by Larry Livermore and David Hayes. Hayes left in 1989 and started Very Small Records and Too Many Records, leaving Lookout to Livermore, who sold it in 1997 to former mailroom assistant Chris Appelgren.

From the start they mainly promoted punk bands but gradually expanded to include various types of pop punk, hardcore and indie rock. Former Lookout bands who have gone on to major label success include Green Day and The Donnas.

In recent years, many of the key creators of Lookout's back catalog have been rescinding their master rights from the label, citing breach of contract over unpaid royalties. Amongst the bands that have taken their masters from Lookout! and reissued them on other labels are Screeching Weasel (on Asian Man), Avail (on Jade Tree), Pansy Division (on Alternative Tentacles), Blatz and Filth (on Life Is Abuse Records), The Riverdales (also on Asian Man), The Lillingtons (on Red Scare Records), and Enemy You (also on Red Scare). On August 1, 2005, Green Day were the latest former Lookout! act to rescind their masters from Lookout!, forcing the label to lay off two-thirds of its staff and halt new releases for the remainder of the year.

Other bands that have recorded for Lookout include:

• Avail
• Blatz
• Bratmobile
• Brent's TV
• Crimpshrine
• Fifteen
• Filth
• The Go-Nuts
• Go Sailor
• The Groovie Ghoulies
• Hockey Night
• The Invalids
• Isocracy
• Jüke
• The Mr. T Experience
• Neurosis
• Nuisance
• Operation Ivy
• The Oranges Band
• Pansy Division
• The Pattern
• Pinhead Gunpowder
• The Potatomen
• The Queers
• Rancid
• The Reputation
• Samiam
• Screeching Weasel
• Servotron
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
• Troubbled Hubble
• The Washdown

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Official site
• Local article on Green Day pullout
• "Nothing Nice To Say" strip about Green Day's pullout from Lookout

1987 establishments | American record labels | Companies based in Alameda County | Independent record labels | Punk record labels

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