L’etichetta di Chicago ha annunciato di aver messo sotto contratto Ted Leo, esuberante eroe del punk-rock a stelle e strisce con un lungo passato su Lookout!. Ted, che si è guadagnato ottime critiche e l’apprezzamento di schiere di fans grazie ad album come “The Tyranny of Distance”, “Hearts of Oak” e “Shake the Sheets” (tutti registrati con la sua band The Pharmacists), si e’ dichiarato entusiasta della sua nuova etichetta ed ha affermato: “As sad as I am that circumstances have forced a move from Lookout! Records, I’m insanely happy and thankful to be able to make that move over to Touch & Go. T&G is a label that has provided me, personally, with amazing music for 25 years; over those years, I have become friends with many of their artists and staff, and it’s an honor to now be a real part of their ongoing ruling-ness. In many ways, this decision was an incredibly hard one to make, since I also have great respect for and friendship with a number of other labels who we have been talking to, and what I’m about to say could also apply to them, but in a very big way, T&G’s history is my history, like Lookout!’s history is my history, like Gern Blandsten’s history is my history — American Punk Rock, True Believers, the Real Deal.”
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