Hopeless/Sub City Records
Founded	1993
Founder	Louis Posen
Distributing label	Alternative Distribution Alliance
Genre	alternative rock punk rock pop punk emo
Country of origin	US
Location	Van Nuys, California
Official Website	Official website of Hopeless Records

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Hopeless Records is an independent record label located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California.^[1][2] The label was started in 1993 by Louis Posen and financed by a group of private investors. Hopeless's artists are generally considered punk rock, pop punk, emo, or alternative rock, but some also include elements of various genres of metal.

The label's "charitable arm," Sub City Records, participates in a number of benefit tours such as the Take Action Tour.^[3] Each year Hopeless/Sub City releases a benefit compilation Take Action! which is a multidisc compilation of punk and other independent bands. The CD release usually coincides with the annual Take Action Tour.

Contents 1 Artists 1.1 Current artists 1.2 Former artists 2 Compilations/Samplers 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Artists

[edit] Current artists

• Anarbor
• Against All Authority
• All Time Low (Next Album will be released through Interscope Records)
• Andy Shauf
• Damion Suomi
• The Dangerous Summer
• Guttermouth
• The Human Abstract
• Mustard Plug
• Nural
• Samiam
• There for Tomorrow
• We Are The In Crowd

[edit] Former artists

• 88 Fingers Louie
• Amber Pacific
• Atom And His Package
• Avenged Sevenfold (2001 - 2004; Left for Warner Bros. Records)
• Brazil
• Break The Silence
• Common Rider
• Digger
• Dillinger Four
• Ever We Fall (Broke Up)
• Heckle (1997)
• Kaddisfly
• Falling Sickness
• Fifteen
• Funeral Oration
• Jeff Ott
• The Nobodys
• Nural
• The Queers
• Royden
• Scared Of Chaka
• Schlong
• Selby Tigers
• The Story So Far
• Thrice (Sub City, 2001 - 2003; Left for Island Records, then Vagrant Records)
• The Weakerthans

[edit] Compilations/Samplers

• Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 1
• Hopelessly Devoted to You Too Vol. 2
• Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 3
• Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 4
• Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 5
• Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 6
• Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol. 7
• Take Action! Vol. 1
• Take Action! Vol. 2
• Take Action! Vol. 3
• Take Action! Vol. 4
• Take Action! Vol. 5
• Take Action! Vol. 6
• Take Action! Vol. 7 - March 4, 2008
• Take Action! Vol. 8
• I'm So Hopeless You're So Hopeless

[edit] See also

• List of record labels

[edit] References

1. ^ Hopeless Records’s Label Page – Music at Last.fm
2. ^ Punknews.org | About Hopeless Records
3. ^ Taking Action, One Tour at a Time: an Interview with Louis Posen « A Coat of Red Paint In Hell

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Business Week-The Paul Newman of Punk Rock
• Reuters-Small punk label a powerhouse of philanthropy
• Hopeless Purevolume Site

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