Larry Livermore

Year Without A Winter

If you’d known me as a boy, you could be forgiven for never knowing quite what what to expect of

I seem to recall a time – maybe I’m imagining it, but probably not – when people earnestly argued over

Between the time when Operation Ivy broke up in 1989 and Rancid formed in 1991, Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman

How do you run a successful indie record label in the year 2012? Ask as many scenesters, hipsters, music business

Classics Of Love at Barfly, London, 2009. Photo by Imelda Michalczyk When Lookout Records, the label I co-founded and ran

In the course of a search for Patrick Hamilton’s The Gorse Trilogy, I wandered into bookshops new and old across

It’s been months, has it? Well, I guess it has, and while I feel guilty for having let this splendid

It was exactly 10 years ago tonight that I had my last drink. I’d been stopping and starting for a

Some of the best – and some of the worst – writing I’ve done has been in a fit of

(See also: “Kreayshawn Reconsidered”, in which I realize I went way over the top with some of the things I