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Various Artists While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years Of Bloodshot Records For two decades, Bloodshot Records has been carving out their niche as a catalyst of alt-country and Americana. This 38-track compilation illustrates the large shadow of influence cast by Bloodshot artists (ranging from catalog artists Old 97’s and Alejandro Escovedo to label […]

Hostage Calm Please Remain Calm Hostage Calm have always resided in the left field of melodic-hardcore tropes, from the obscure emo references of their 2008 debut, Lens, to their ambitious, unpredictable high-water mark, 2010's Hostage Calm. Arguably, they leave the subgenre behind altogether on the J. Robbins-produced Please Remain Calm, which takes the classic power-pop […]

Trummors Over And Around The Clove One half of Trummors, David Lerner, is best known for his role as bassist in Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, but his new acoustic duo check in some ways from Leo’s agit-punk. With vocalist Anne Cunningham, Lerner creates an appealingly rustic, Appalachian sound; the simple strumming and sweet-and-sour harmonies […]

Lookout Records owner/president Chris Appelgren released a lengthy statement over the weekend regarding the official closure of the seminal punk label. Read the full statement below. “I'm not sure exactly where exactly to start but I guess it's best to get the hard part out of the way. To put it simply, what was mentioned […]

Seminal punk label Lookout Records has officially closed its doors, according to label alumnus Ted Leo. Over the years, Lookout! had released material from Green Day, Screeching Weasel, Operation Ivy and others, but ceased issuing new records in 2006. The label had kept its back catalogue in print from that point until December 2011, according […]