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Hopeless Records

{{short description|American record label}}

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{{Infobox record label

| name = Hopeless Records

| image = 200px

| image_alt = The official logo for Hopeless Records

| founded = {{start date and age|1993}}

| founder = Louis Posen

| distributor = AMPED Distribution{{Cite web |last=Ching |first=Ian |title=Labels |url=https://www.ampeddistribution.com/labels |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=AMPED™ Music Distribution |language=en-US}}

| genre = {{flatlist|

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| country = U.S.

| location = Van Nuys, California

| website = {{URL|hopelessrecords.com}}

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Hopeless Records is an American independent record label in Van Nuys, California.{{cite web |url=http://www.punknews.org/labels/hopeless |title=About Hopeless Records |publisher=Punknews.org |access-date=2015-03-08}}{{cite news |last=Fadrowski |first=Kelli |date=January 16, 2019 |title=Louis Posen of Van Nuys' Hopeless Records looks back on 25 years of hard work, good times and punk rock |url= https://www.dailynews.com/2019/01/16/hopeless-records-founder-louis-posen-looks-back-on-25-years-of-hard-work-good-times-and-punk-rock/ |work=Los Angeles Daily News |access-date=August 3, 2020 }}{{cite news |last=De Los Santos |first=Brian |date=September 21, 2011 |title= CSUN alumnus transcends music industry with music label Hopeless Records |url= https://sundial.csun.edu/44064/uncategorized/csun-alumnus-transcends-music-industry-with-music-label-hopeless-records/ |work=Sundial |access-date=August 3, 2020 }}{{cite news |last=Wappler |first=Margaret |date=March 16, 2006 |title=Hopeless? That's just a name |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-16-wk-pop16-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=August 7, 2020 }}{{cite news |last=Brown |first=August |date=January 18, 2019 |title=How Hopeless Records has Thrived for a Quarter Century in Indie Punk |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-hopeless-records-20190119-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=August 7, 2020 }}

History

Hopeless Records was founded in 1993 by Louis Posen. The label's artists are generally considered to fall under the genres of punk rock, pop punk, post-hardcore, and alternative rock, but some also include elements of heavy metal. Some of their best-known artists include All Time Low, Sum 41, Neck Deep, Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice, Yellowcard, Anarbor, Taking Back Sunday, Silverstein, Amber Pacific, We Are the In Crowd, Bayside, the Used, the Wonder Years, the Human Abstract and Enter Shikari.{{cite web|title=more-about-us|url=http://hopelessrecords.com/about/more-about-us/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711100323/http://hopelessrecords.com/about/more-about-us/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 11, 2012 |access-date=October 14, 2010 }}

In July 2008, Hopeless Records announced that it had launched a new imprint, P Is for Panda. It was originally started in 2007 as a clothing line by The Militia Group founder Chad Pearson. The P Is For Panda label released its first album, a various artists compilation in August 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_4385|title=Hopeless Records launches P Is For Panda imprint|work=Alternative Press|publisher=Alternative Press Magazine, Inc|date=July 24, 2008|access-date=July 22, 2017}}

Notable artists

=Current=

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  • Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties
  • AJJ{{Cite web |last=Punknews.org |title=AJJ sign to Hopeless Records, release "The Baby Panda" |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/78789/ajj-sign-to-hopeless-records-release-the-baby-panda |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=www.punknews.org |date=2 December 2022 |language=en}}
  • Bayside
  • Destroy Boys
  • Fame on Fire
  • Illuminati Hotties{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/illuminati-hotties/illuminati-hotties-new-single-mmmoooaaaaayaya-reco/|title=illuminati hotties Share New Single "MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA," Launch Snack Shack Tracks Label|publisher=Paste Magazine|date=21 Apr 2021|access-date=21 Apr 2021}}
  • LØLØ
  • Neck Deep
  • NOAHFINNCE{{cite web|url=https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/noahfinnce-has-signed-to-hopeless-records-released-a-new-song|title=NOAHFINNCE Has Signed To Hopeless Records & Released A New Song|work=Rock Sound Magazine |publisher=Rock Sound|date=19 Nov 2020|access-date=19 Nov 2020}}
  • Pinkshift
  • Pvris[https://www.kerrang.com/pvris-lynn-gunn-interview-new-music-animal-anywhere-but-here-theres-this-push-and-pull-between-doom-and-joy-hate-and-love PVRIS: There's this push and pull between doom and joy, hate and love..."]
  • Scene Queen
  • Senses
  • Sincere Engineer
  • Stand Atlantic{{cite web |url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/stand-atlantic-sign-to-hopeless-records-announce-album-skinny-dipping/ |title=Stand Atlantic sign to Hopeless Records; Announce album Skinny Dipping |publisher=Kerrang |date=2018-09-04}}
  • Sullivan King
  • Sweet Pill
  • Tigers Jaw
  • Trash Boat
  • Trophy Eyes
  • Vaines
  • What's Eating Gilbert
  • The Wonder Years

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=Past=

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See also

References

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External links

  • [https://www.hopelessrecords.com/ Official website]

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Category:American independent record labels

Category:Record labels established in 1993

Category:Punk record labels

Category:1993 establishments in California