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Lookout! Records. Independent punk rock label based in Berkeley, California, USA. Lookout! has released early work from a number of punk rock giants including Green Day, Rancid, & Operation Ivy as well as steadily releasing music from other punk rock favorites such as Avail, Screeching Weasel, Tilt, The Queers, Ted Leo and a ton of others. Lookout!
Lookout Records (stylized as Lookout! Records ) was an independent record label , initially based in Laytonville, California , and later in Berkeley , focusing on punk rock . Established in 1987, the label is best known for having released Operation Ivy ’s only album, Energy , and Green Day 's first two albums, 39/Smooth and Kerplunk .
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The label released Green Day’s first two studio albums 39/Smooth and Kerplunk, as well as Operation Ivy’s sole effort Energy. Kerplunk is one of the biggest selling independent albums ever ...
- Operation Ivy - Energy (1989) Kerplunk may have been Lookout! 's biggest album, but its best album was by Green Day's old pals (who Green Day have famously covered at least 500 times) Operation Ivy.
- Green Day - Kerplunk (1992) Green Day may be a full-on arena rock band with a Broadway show who haven't released great music in years, but their first four albums were some of the best -- and certainly some of the most influential -- to come out of the entire '90s pop punk boom.
- The Queers - Don't Back Down (1996) Tons of bands on Lookout! channelled the Ramones, but The Queers took it a step further and simultaneously channelled a band the Ramones themselves were influenced by, The Beach Boys.
- The Donnas - Turn 21 (2001) Like Green Day, The Donnas honed their sound on Lookout! before signing to a major and getting majorly popular. They started out, like a lot of Lookout!
Lookout Records was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California, and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. Established in 1987, the label is best known for having released Operation Ivy’s only album, Energy, and Green Day's first two albums, 39/Smooth and Kerplunk.
Mar 26, 2015 · March 26, 2015. 5 min read. Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records. By Kevin Prested. Microcosm Publishing. As a once avid reader of MaximumRocknRoll fanzine, I was well aware of the Gilman Street Project, a punk club the zine helped start. There was a healthy punk scene in the Berkeley area at the time with a lot of really good up and ...
