- The final issue of Touch and Go, with Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins on the cover
Before it was an influential record label owned by Corey Rusk, Touch and Go was an influential punk rock fanzine. Tesco Vee (of Meatmen fame) and Dave Stimson founded it in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979, and eventually Vee started the label of the same name, releasing records by his own group as well as the Fix, Negative Approach, and Rusk’s band the Necros. In 1981 bassist Rusk joined Vee at the label, and by 1983 he’d taken over, running it with his future wife, Lisa Pfahler.