Meet The Lookouts
I’d been trying to start a punk rock band for at least two or three years, but The Lookouts finally
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Interview With Aaron Cometbus
For almost three decades, Aaron Cometbus has published the magazine that bears his name – or whose name he bears – and though he’s remained largely below the radar of the mainstream literary scene, it would be no exaggeration at all to call him one of the most important writers of his generation. He’s also renowned for the many bands he’s been a part of, some of the more notable ones being Crimpshrine, Sweet Baby, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, and Pinhead Gunpowder. In the autumn of 2001 I sat down with him for a long conversation, about half of which originally appeared in Punk Planet and is now reproduced here.
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Journey To The End: Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman And Lars Frederiksen Talk To Larry Livermore About Operation Ivy, Rancid And That Whole East Bay Thing
This story was based on an interview conducted with Tim, Matt and Lars in October, 2001, and originally appeared in
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Interview: Billie Joe Armstrong Part One
Continue to Part Two I had quite a lengthy conversation with Billie Joe toward the end of 2001 or
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I wrote this in 1999 or 2000; I don’t remember where (or if) it was ever published. It’s a partial
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My Adventure With Green Day: The Story of Laurie L.
This originally appeared in Tales of Blarg fanzine, and was later reprinted on the insert to Green Day’s Kerplunk album.
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How I Became A Capitalist: The Lookout Records Story, Part One
From Lookout magazine #39, Summer 1994 What was supposed to go in this space was a dead serious article about
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My Last Column for Maximum Rocknroll, April 1994
I’m writing this more than a month earlier, in the midst of a trip to Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the kind of places where it’s only too easy to understand just how cruel April can be.
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The Problem With Anarchy
In 1989 the annual anarchist convention (I think maybe they called it a “gathering” rather than a convention, but whatever)
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