Iconic East Bay punk label founded by Larry Livermore in 1987. Lookout! is best known for having released Operation Ivy’s lone album Energy, and Green Day’s first two albums 39/Smooth and Kerplunk. Also notable was the label’s influence on pop-punk, releasing records by The Queers, Mr. T Experience, Screeching Weasel throughout the early 90’s and beyond.
Texas pop-punks Öldie Häwn‘s debut LP Missing Time is out now on Otitis Media Records. If you’re a fan of 90’s Lookout! Records style pop-punk (Screeching Weasel, Squirtgun, The Queers, etc.), you’re in the right place! This record is excellent. Check it out below and get the LP / CD here. Digital download available on Bandcamp.
San Francisco Bay Area, East Bay punk band. Biggest influences are Ramones, Huntingtons, Riverdales, Screeching Weasel, and The Queers. Great music to sing along and bob your head to.
Screeching Weasel‘s 30th Anniversary reissue of Anthem For A New Tomorrow has been remixed and remastered by Mike Kennerty and Justin Perkins. Out now on Striped Music (EU), Recess Records (US). CD released by Rum Bar Records, available to purchase here. Listen below and read our review here.
Screeching Weasel have released a new version of Kill the Musicians. The new remastered verison is out now digitally. Rumbar Records will release a CD version and Recess Records will release a 2xLP verison.
Screeching Weasel have released a new song. It is called "Just Another Fool" and is off their upcoming album The Awful Disclosures of Screeching Weasel that will be out on July 15. Screeching Weasel released Some Freaks Of Atavism in 2020. Check out the song below.
Sludgeworth was a punk band from Chicago, consisting of Dan Vapid (vocals), Adam White (guitar), Dave McClean (guitar), Mike Hootenstrat (bass), and Brian Vermin (drums).
The band was formed in 1989 as a side project from Screeching Weasel. They released their first EP in 1990, followed by a full-length album in 1991. That same year, Vapid joined a resurrected Screeching Weasel. Sludgeworth announced their split in late 1992. The breakup was due to musical differences between Schafer and the other members, with the former wanting to continue playing pop punk and the others wanting to move in a different direction. Sludgeworth played their last show in early 1993. A few years later, a collection of their music was released by Lookout! Records on the album Losers of the Year.
For the uninitiated, Sludgeworth are Chicago punk pioneers from the 1980’s that released a posthumous collection/discography album on Lookout! Records back in the day—and it sold tens of thousands of copies, which was impressive for a defunct band. With members of Screeching Weasel, they had obvious leanings towards melodic punk, but they also had a quintessential Midwest sound mixed in with some post-punk. Think Naked Raygun and Fugazi. And now, for the first time ever, Red Scare brings you Losers of the Year on vinyl. Their first and only LP! And we didn’t stop there: we’ve added two unreleased songs to the CD and digital version of this album. Wild, right?! The band actually broke up in the studio (drama!) during a recording session, but we’ve managed to salvage some of that unheard material for this milestone release. Once again, it’s Red Scare to the rescue!
