Louis Posen, founding father of California-based label Hopeless Data, is about to obtain the Lifetime Achievement Award on the 2024 A2IM Libera Awards. The awards, the world’s largest celebration of unbiased music, is about to happen on Monday, June 10 at Gotham Corridor in New York. The gala dinner and live performance occasion, that includes performances from a various vary of artists, is open to the general public.
As a board member for the Worldwide Impartial Community (WIN) and Merlin and a two-time board member for A2IM, Posen has stood on the forefront of advocacy efforts inside america and internationally.
“Louis’s dedication to nurturing artists and leveraging music for social change underscores his dedication to our business and epitomizes the ability of mixing ardour with function,” Dr. Richard James Burgess, MBE, president/CEO of A2IM, mentioned in an announcement. “Louis is a crucial advocate for unbiased music, vigorously championing the causes he believes in. We salute Louis for his continued dedication to the unbiased sector and to neighborhood empowerment.”
“What an unbelievable honor to be in the identical firm as a few of my mentors and favourite labels,” Posen mentioned in an announcement. “… Thanks to your entire unbiased music neighborhood. Particularly A2IM, whose superb work selling and defending the worth of unbiased music has created an business setting the place unbiased artists and firms like Hopeless can thrive.”
Earlier A2IM Lifetime Achievement winners embody Martin Mills (Beggars Group), Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Data), Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Data), Patricia Chin (VP Data), Mike Curb (Curb Data), Ani DiFranco (Righteous Babe Data), Brett Gurewitz (Epitaph/ANTI-), Jonathan Poneman (Sub Pop), Seymour Stein (Sire Data) and Al Bell, Estelle Axton, Jim Stewart, and Deanie Parker (Stax Data).
This 12 months, Hopeless Data celebrates its 30 12 months anniversary. Over the past three a long time, it has grown from a bed room label into one of the vital profitable corporations in unbiased music, with greater than 400 releases and hundreds of thousands of data offered.
Based by Posen as an excuse to launch a seven-inch by the band Guttermouth, the label spent a lot of the ’90s catering to pop-punk and ska followers with a brief roster that included 88 Fingers Louie, Dillinger 4 and Mustard Plug. As mainstream tastes shifted, so did the label, signing such acts as Avenged Sevenfold, All Time Low, Taking Again Sunday, Yellowcard, New Discovered Glory, Neck Deep, The Surprise Years and illuminati hotties.
This 12 months’s Libera Awards will acknowledge achievements throughout 38 classes, together with three new ones: writer of the 12 months, distributor of the 12 months and finest file from video games and interactive media.
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