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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hopeless Records Acquires Fat Wreck Chords Catalog in New Partnership
Punk rock record label Hopeless Records has closed on a deal to acquire the catalog of Fat Wreck Chords — the label co-founded by NOFX's Fat Mike and Erin Kelly-Burkett — the two companies announced on Wednesday. The companies didn't disclose financial details of the purchase. As part of the deal, Hopeless and Fat Wreck Chords said that all the unrecouped balances for Fat Wreck's roster will be cleared. Also as part of the deal, Hopeless has agreed to a 'no-new-signings policy' that the companies said would ensure all focus and resources stay on FAT's existing roster. Fat Mike (real name Michael John Burkett) and Kelly-Burkett will retain ownership of Fat Wreck Chords' name, logo and trademark. More from The Hollywood Reporter ATEEZ's In Your Fantasy Tour Is Starting This Week - Here's How to Get Tickets Oasis' A-List Guests: Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Sony Music's Rob Stringer Among Industry Notables at Tour Opening John Summit Is Bringing EDM Festival Scene Back to New York With Experts Only Fest Hopeless Records is particularly known in the punk and metal scenes, having released records for artists including Avenged Sevenfold, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday, YSum 41 and Destroy Boys among others since Louis Posen founded the label in 1993. Fat Wreck Chords, meanwhile, has been home for artists including NOFX and Rise Against since its launch in 1990. In their announcement, Posen, Fat Mike and Kelly-Burkett describe the new partnership as a 'full-circle moment' given their nearly 30 years of friendship. Posen, originally a music video director, first met Fat Mike after reaching out to direct a video for the NOFX song 'Bob,' and Mike and Kelly-Burkett later gave Posen guidance on running an indie label. '\Without Fat Wreck Chords, there would be no Hopeless,' the companies said in their announcement. 'The opportunity to lead the history, catalog, and roster of Fat Wreck Chords into the future, alongside Mike and Erin, is the honor and privilege of my 30-year career,' Posen said in a statement. 'We are incredibly grateful that Mike and Erin have entrusted the Hopeless team to care for their 35 years of passion and hard work. 'I don't know when it will fully sink in, but we are deeply committed to honoring and continuing the remarkable history of Fat Wreck Chords.' Fat Mike said that his label had been in touch with several other companies about a potential deal over the past three years, but that after looking around 'Erin and I realized that Hopeless was the only choice.' 'We've been friends with Louis for over 30 years and he is someone who always seems to doing things for the greater good,' he said. 'I completely trust his ethics and acumen with the legacy of Fat Wreck Chords.' Kelly-Burkett called the deal 'one of the biggest decisions I've ever made,' but also 'one of the most exciting.' 'FAT has been my baby for 35 years,' she said. 'To me, it's more than a label; it's a community, a home, and a legacy built from the ground up. Louis understands that, and I can't think of anyone better than Hopeless to carry FAT forward. As a true fan, Louis knows firsthand what FAT is all about, and will build on the foundation Mike and I laid with care and respect. These bands are my family, and I know they're in good hands with the Hopeless family.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter From 'Party in the U.S.A.' to 'Born in the U.S.A.': 20 of America's Most Patriotic (and Un-Patriotic) Musical Offerings Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Most Notable Deaths of 2025
CBC
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Propagandhi remains calm inside the storm
Exclusive CBC Manitoba interview shows a band finding peace in today's world They've been heralded as one of Canada's most prolific and outspoken punk bands. After 30 years and on the eve of their first album in eight years, 'At Peace' -- Winnipeg's Propagandhi have decided to slow down these days. Albeit, just sonically. Actively involved from the start At the forefront of the 90s punk explosion, Propagandhi stood out. Sure, the band had the aggression and angst commonly associated with the genre but at the time there was no other band as socially conscious and politically charged as these three young musicians from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Today, their 1993 debut album How to Clean Everything has been heralded as, not only, the sound that defined the label that released it, Fat Wreck Chords but a wake up call in the minds of many middle-aged adults who first discovered them as teens. With handouts, speeches and information behind important local causes their live shows were as equally as educational as they were entertaining. This approach however wouldn't appeal to all of their new found fans. Those who had heard them and fell in love with their fast, melodic punk rock would soon realize that they stood for much more and became vocally uncomfortable with their approach. This would lead the band to releasing a sophomore album aptly titled, Less Talk, More Rock. A response to anyone in the audience who had demanded they worry less about social and political issues of the time and just focus on the music. The band would further display their stance by putting the words, Pro-feminist, animal-friendly, animal-friendly, gay-positive on the album's artwork. As time went on the band continued to champion causes important to them but through each album would start to delve more into the thrash metal style that they adored. Opening the door even further to a larger and more dedicated fan base. Fans so dedicated that a podcast would eventually be created for analyzing their songs and lyrics as they became recognized for decades around the world not just as one of punk rocks strongest advocates for change but a band that could shred too. At peace, these days On March 10, after eight years of silence, the band woke their fans up from their slumber with the surprise release of At Peace. The lead single of off the album with the same name out on Epitaph Records on May 2, At Peace didn't just include their signature riffs and insightful and poignant lyrics. It also seemed to convey a sense of being in the right place at the right time as the news becomes increasingly more anxiety inducing day after day. Surprisingly, however, on this song lead singer Chris Hannah proclaims,"I am at peace, though presently convulsed with grief, I am at peace". Words seldom spoken by a band who had always been vocal on what mattered to them while championing to change things for the better. Understanding the importance of these words, CBC's Jim Agapito sat down with Propagandhi for their first-ever band interview with CBC (less guitarist Sulynn Hago) to discuss the new single, new album, today's political climate and why they've decided to slow down through it all.
