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Article: Punk is his business. (Brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records)
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- Newsweek
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- January 30, 1995
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Brett Gurewitz may be a record company president, but he doesn't really act like one. Wearing black jeans, a T shirt, scuffed-up shoes and close-cropped hair, he is hanging out in the main office area of Epitaph Records, a punk label that's become the most successful independent company in the music business. Located far from Hollywood's high rises in L.A.'s Silver Lake district, the office is an old, ivy-covered converted trolley building that once housed the West Coast's only large-scale taxidermy shop. Gurewitz's desk is right alongside everyone else's. He doesn't have an assistant; his staff of 17 doesn't even include a receptionist. Gurewitz presides over a ...
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