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# Hopeless/Sub City Records Sing A Different Tune
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/hopelesssub_cit/
- Published: 2006-03-17T09:46:12.000Z
- Updated: 2006-03-17T09:46:12.000Z
- Description: Nice piece in the LA Times about Hopeless/Sub City Records, punk labels that were founded and are run successfully on a premise other than searching the pot of gold at. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/03/hopelesssub_cit.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

Nice piece in the LA Times about Hopeless/Sub City Records, punk labels that were founded and are run successfully on a premise other than searching the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

[![Hopeless_1](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/hopeless_1.gif "Hopeless_1")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/hopeless%5F1.gif?ref=hypebot.com)

In the first few years, Sub City donated funds to a diverse set of charities, but Posen says that the fans, many in their teens, wanted a more streamlined message about the issues closest to them, depression and teen suicide. In 2001, Sub City teamed

[![Takeaction](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/takeaction.gif "Takeaction")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/takeaction.gif?ref=hypebot.com)

with the hotlines, and it is now their major source of funding — although the label has given more than $600,000 to other charities, including the Women’s Justice Center and the Multiple Sclerosis Service Society.

Read the inspiring story [here](http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-wk-pop16mar16,1,1936231.story?coll=la-headlines-politics&ctrack=1&cset=true&ref=hypebot.com).