Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Lookout! Records Calls It Quits
Breaking News / Business / Bay Area Bands Kathleen Richards — Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM
It's been a little more than six years since Lookout! Records released any material, but today the famed Berkeley punk rock label officially called it quits. On its website, Lookout! Records owner Chris Appelgren cited several factors in the decision, including the loss of Green Day and Operation Ivy to its catalog, as well as the demise of its CD manufacturer/distributor and mail order partner.
Appelgren writes: "We considered all options but kept coming back to realization that the best use of our energies would be to shut the doors once and for all - for the legacy of the label, for the bands, and for benefit of the relationships and friendships with artists, partners, and stakeholders."
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Man, so many records that Lookout! released have meant so much to me since I first heard them as a teen, and still mean a lot to me now in my thirties. Yesterday, I heard 'Daydreaming' by the Queers for the first time in a while, and it made me smile.
R.I.P., Lookout! Records. Thanks for the music, and don't forget the magic!
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