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Hopeless Records will celebrate its 30th anniversary next month with an exhibit and performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The punk label will head to Cleveland on the weekend of Aug. 24 ...
According to the Zero Youth Records' website, Mohawk Matt and Loretta Lightningbolt started the punk label in 2003 and released ... and become internationally famous. It's to make the lives ...
To celebrate the punk label's 15th anniversary, founder Jake Round reflects on its past, present, and future and picks 5 key ...
In fact, many of the artists we’ve come to know and love the most were rejected by record labels long before they got their big break. The names on this list may surprise you, which just goes to ...
Just a few years before he founded Hopeless Records ... Huntington Beach punk band Guttermouth), Posen launched what would become one of the most consistent and impactful labels in the Southern ...
before heading on to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. Posen and Ian Harrison, the label’s GM, spoke about Hopeless Records’ origins, the ...
Steve Albini, the record producer ... advocate for artists. A famous essay in the Baffler, “The Problem With Music,” laid out the perfidies of the major-label system, at the time still in ...