Blog: How Hopeless Records has thrived for a quarter century in indie punk

Now even veteran bands, like those playing on Saturday, are streaming “tens of thousands of times a week,” Posen added. Younger acts, like the Welsh combo Neck Deep, do tens of millions of streams — not hip-hop smash numbers, but more than enough for a sustainable career. And a new crop of rappers is drawing from the early-2000s emo and punk that Hopeless helped popularize.