Lookout 1984–1999

Lookout magazine started in 1984 as a xeroxed community newsletter when the musician, record producer, and author Lawrence Livermore lived in Spyrock, Mendocino County, California. Spyrock was part of a constellation of locales across Mendocino and Humboldt County that, since the late 1960s, had become increasingly popular among artists and hippies. Lookout magazine, named after the Iron Peak Lookout Tower in the Mendocino National Forest, included content on local politics and tackled issues as diverse as environmental topics and countercultural philosophy. Over the years, following Livermore's involvement with the Gilman Street Project and the punk-rock scene, the publication's focus shifted to music, which resulted in finding a whole new audience in the Bay Area and across the United States, especially among Maximum rocknroll readers. While publishing Lookout magazine, Livermore co-founded Lookout Records. The scans have been provided by the East Bay Digital Punk Archive.