lakeshore records is the independent music division of lakeshore entertainment. they started out as will records. will records was started by skip williamson in the early 1990s. as will records they released albums by artists such as grandaddy (starting with their debut "a pretty mess by this one band"). in 2000, will records acquired the catalogue of recently closed loosegroove records (a catalogue that included the debut full-length album by queens of the stone age). will records and lakeshore entertainment partnered to form lakeshore records.