Green Day Drop Indie

08/02/05
. (punkbands) Due to concerns over unpaid royalties, Green Day has pulled their catalog from Lookout!. The long-running Berkeley-based label played host to both "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" and "Kerplunk!" for the past decade, and also reissued a remastered version of the former last year.

As a result, six of the nine employees at the label have been laid off. Label president Chris Appelgren spoke to Punknews.org about the future for the label, explaining that despite the setback, Lookout! will continue, albeit in a scaled back form. [see full story for more] - Click here for the Full Story

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