Editing Hopeless Records

{{short description|American record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Hopeless Records
| image       = [[File:Hr-logo-color.png|200px]]
| image_alt   = The official logo for Hopeless Records
| founded     = {{start date and age|1993}}
| founder     = Louis Posen
| distributor = AMPED Distribution<ref>{{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}}</ref>
| genre       = {{flatlist|
* [[Screamo]] 
* [[emocore]] 
* [[alternative rock]]
* [[punk rock]]
* [[hardcore punk]]
* [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
* [[pop punk]]
}}
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[Van Nuys]], California
| website     = {{URL|hopelessrecords.com}}
}}

'''Hopeless Records''' is an American [[independent record label]] in [[Van Nuys]], California.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.punknews.org/labels/hopeless |title=About Hopeless Records |publisher=Punknews.org |access-date=2015-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>

==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 music|heavy metal]]. Some of their best-known artists include [[All Time Low]], [[Sum 41]], [[Neck Deep]], [[Avenged Sevenfold]], [[Thrice]], [[Yellowcard (band)|Yellowcard]], [[Anarbor]], [[Taking Back Sunday]], [[Silverstein (band)|Silverstein]], [[Amber Pacific]], [[We Are the In Crowd]], [[Bayside (band)|Bayside]], [[the Used]], [[The Wonder Years (band)|the Wonder Years]], [[The Human Abstract (band)|the Human Abstract]] and [[Enter Shikari]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Notable artists==
===Current===
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*[[Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties]]
*[[AJJ (band)|AJJ]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[Bayside (band)|Bayside]]
*[[Destroy Boys]]
*[[Fame on Fire]]
*[[Illuminati Hotties]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[LØLØ]]
*[[Neck Deep]]
*[[NOAHFINNCE]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[Pinkshift]]
*[[Pvris]]<ref>[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..."]</ref>
*[[Scene Queen]]
*Senses
*[[Sincere Engineer]]
*[[Stand Atlantic]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[Sullivan King]]
*[[Sweet Pill]]
*[[Tigers Jaw]]
*[[Trash Boat]]
*[[Trophy Eyes]]
*[[Vaines]]
*[[Chad Gilbert|What's Eating Gilbert]]
*[[The Wonder Years (band)|The Wonder Years]]
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===Past===
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*[[88 Fingers Louie]] (active)
*[[Against All Authority]] (active)
*[[Air Dubai]] (status unknown)
*[[All Time Low]] (active with [[Fueled by Ramen]])
*[[Amber Pacific]] (active with Manic Kat Records)
*[[Anarbor]] (active)
*[[Anthony Raneri]] (active with [[Equal Vision Records]])
*[[Atom And His Package]] (active)
*[[Avenged Sevenfold]] (active with [[Warner Records]])
*[[Between You & Me (band)|Between You & Me]] (independent)
*[[Circa Survive]]  (hiatus)
*[[Coldrain]] (active with [[Warner Music Japan]])
*[[Common Rider]]  (status unknown)
*[[Cruel Hand]] (status unknown)
*[[Damion Suomi|Damion Suomi and the Minor Prophets]] (status unknown)
*[[The Dangerous Summer (band)|The Dangerous Summer]] (active with [[Rude Records]])
*[[Digger (band)|Digger]] (active again as of 2015)
*[[Dillinger Four]] (active with [[Fat Wreck Chords]])
*[[Doll Skin]] (disbanded)
*[[Driver Friendly]] (status unknown)
*[[Emarosa]] (active with [[Out of Line Music]])
*[[Enter Shikari]] (independent)
*[[Ever We Fall]] (disbanded)
*[[Fifteen (band)|Fifteen]] (disbanded)
*[[Foxing (band)|Foxing]]
*[[Funeral Oration (band)|Funeral Oration]] (disbanded)
*[[Grabbitz]] (active with Monstercat Records)
*[[Guttermouth]] (active with [[Rude Records]])
*[[Hands Like Houses]] (status unknown)
*[[Have Mercy (band)|Have Mercy]] (active again as of 2022)
*[[Heckle (band)|Heckle]] (disbanded)
*[[Hey Violet]] (disbanded)
*[[The Human Abstract (band)|The Human Abstract]] (disbanded)
*[[Hundredth (band)|Hundredth]] (status unknown)
*[[Jeff Ott]] (status unknown)
*[[Kaddisfly]] (active with Hopeless subsidiary [[Sub City Records]])
*[[Lotus Eater]] (disbanded)
*[[Mêlée (band)|Mêlée]] (status unknown)
*[[Milk Teeth (band)|Milk Teeth]] (disbanded)
*[[Moose Blood]] (hiatus)
*[[Mustard Plug]] (active with [[No Idea Records]])
*[[New Found Glory]] (active with [[Pure Noise Records]])
*[[Nural]] (disbanded)
*[[The Queers]] (active with [[Cleopatra Records]])
*[[The Ready Set]] (status unknown)
*[[Roam (band)|Roam]] (status unknown)
*[[Samiam]] (active with [[Pure Noise Records]])
*[[Satanic Surfers]] (active)
*[[Scared of Chaka]] (status unknown)
*[[Selby Tigers]] (disbanded)
*[[Silverstein (band)|Silverstein]] (active with [[UNFD]])
*[[Somos (band)|Somos]] (status unknown)
*[[Story Untold (band)|Story Untold]] (actively independent)
*[[Sum 41]] (disbanded)
*[[SycAmour]] (status unknown)
*[[Sylar (band)|Sylar]] (status unknown)
*[[Taking Back Sunday]] (active with [[Fantasy Records]])
*[[There for Tomorrow]] (disbanded)
*[[Thrice]] (active with [[Epitaph Records]])
*[[Tiny Moving Parts]] (independent)
*[[Tonight Alive]] (status unknown)
*[[Travie McCoy]]
*[[The Used]] (active with [[Nick Gross#Big Noise|Big Noise Records]])
*[[Waterparks (band)|Waterparks]] (independent)
*[[We Are The In Crowd]] (active)
*[[With Confidence]] (disbanded)
*[[WSTR (band)|WSTR]] (active)
*[[Yellowcard]] (active with [[Better Noise Music]])
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==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==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]]