Lookout! Records wooden wooden shutters

Lookout! Records, the Berkeley, Calif.-based indie label that released early efforts from such key third-wave punk bands as Eco-friendly Day, Operation Ivy, the Mr. T Experience as well as the Donnas, has shuttered. News in the closing was revealed by singer-songwriter Ted Leo, whose band Ted Leo as well as the Pharmacy specialist was signed for the label from 2001-2006. The label will be in dire straits lately, ceasing to create audio in 2006, and may now cease to reprint its back catalog material too, with lots of Lookout!-distributed music getting already disappeared from digital retailers and streaming services. Founded later by David Hayes and Ray Livermore, the label will be a key hub for bands inside the pop-punk genre that skyrocketed around the rear of Eco-friendly Day's major-label jump to Reprise inside the mid-1990's. The label was later handicapped having a spate of complaints over delinquent royalties in the heart of yesteryear decade, with bands for instance Squealing Weasel, Avail, and lastly Eco-friendly Day all declaring back rights for his or her masters. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com