Lookout! Records

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

NOFX's Fat Mike on Taking Drugs, Being a Father, and Joining the Mile High Club

You may not have been alive in 1983, when punk rock icon NOFX was started in Berkeley. That was nearly 30 years ago, after all, and the world was a very different place: Ronald Reagan was president, "big" East Bay punk bands like Rancid or Green Day didn't exist, and Thriller was only a year old. Si ... More >>

Goodbye, Lookout! Records: A Tribute in 10 Songs

You may have heard over the last few days that Berkeley's Lookout! Records -- one of the world's most treasured punk rock labels, and the place that Green Day got its start -- is closing for good, back catalog and all. If you were a punk rocker in the '90s, this news feels a little bit like losing a ... More >>

Facing Lagging Record Sales, Ted Leo May Have to Quit Music

Shawn BrackbillTed Leo Pharmacists​Deep into his second decade of playing music for a living, frisky, political-minded East Coast punk rocker Ted Leo says he may have to retire from regular touring and recording next year because of drooping record sales.The Lookout Records artist told Louisvill ... More >>

In Store: 1-2-3-4-Go! Records Punks All Ages

​In Store spotlights the Bay Area's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our region's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at le ... More >>

Piper at the Pearly Gates

​In Store spotlights the Bay Area's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our region's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at le ... More >>

Music Awards Nominees

​In Store spotlights the Bay Area's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our region's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at le ... More >>

Ill Communiqué

A couple of former punks score a bull's-eye with Poison Arrows, their punk-inspired non-punk debut

In the Board Room

Lookout! Records has come a long way from its bedroom-label beginnings. And maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Chimerical Men

The Cost's Chimera brings button-down geekiness and metallic crunch to hardcore punk

Hear This

Bratmobile's riot grrls tackle gender, identity, and George Dubya's politics

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

Pretty Girls Make Graves mixes killer rock with feminism -- the sonic equivalent of serial murderer Aileen Wuornos

Hear This

Ted Leo proves you can tell a record by its cover.

Boys' Band

Pansy Division's all-gay punk was a shocking first. Will fans let the group escape its pioneering role and just make music?

Common Cause

Jesse Michaels didn't get the fame his former Operation Ivy bandmates did with Rancid, but he didn't lose his passion for ska-infused punk rock either

Night Crawler

Punks, Putting, and the Police

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience

Look Out Below

Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience

Growing Pains

After 11 albums, Berkeley's Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

Riff Raff

After 11 albums, Berkeley's Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

The Accidental Punk

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

The House of Tudor

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

Riff Raff

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

SF Weekly's Wammies '98

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

Riff Raff

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

House of Tudor

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

Riff Raff

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

The House of Tudor

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

SFO3 1996

Avengers frontwoman Penelope Houston tried to escape punk, but history pulled her back in

Spirit of '77

Sin and salvation with Rancid