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''Note: for [[Chumbawamba]]'s UK-based record label, see [[Agit-Prop Records]].''

'''Agitprop! Records''' is a 'revolutionary hardcore and [[hip hop music|hip hop]]' [[independent record label]] based in [[Boston, USA]], founded by Angela Tavares.

One of the label's notable releases is the compilation ''Stand Up & Fucking Fight For It'', its first full-length CD, released in 2002. The recording features [[queercore]] bands such as [[Fagatron]], [[Best Revenge]], [[The Rotten Fruits]], [[Kids like Us (band)|Kids like Us]] and others, and is one of a handful of queercore compilations to be released. Tavares said in the [[Fanorama]] zine, "I was 17 or 18 when I came out, and very much into hardcore and punk. It was weird being involved in these two different 'communities' - one that, at times, could be over-run with homophobia and heterosexism, and the other which I could find very little in common with other than that we fucked the same." She said that the compilation was inspired largely by the [[Outpunk]] label and its early-90's ''Outpunk Dance Party,'' though she added that despite its reputation, Agitprop! is not specifically a "queer" label.

Other early releases included albums and vinyl singles by Ninja Death Squad and Fagatron,<ref name=fagatron/> and Agitprop! also began issuing records by hip hop artists like [[Juha]] and [[Deep Dickollective]].

Agitprop! was initially established as a distro, and continued to distribute other labels' recordings after it began releasing its own. The label is referenced in ''Homocore'', a somewhat definitive guidebook to queercore history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?cd=2&id=nT8UAQAAIAAJ |title=Homocore: the loud and raucous rise of queer rock|first=David |last=Ciminelli|first=Ken|last=Knox |publisher=Alyson Books |date=2005 |accessdate=2010-03-01 |page=169|isbn=1555838553}}</ref>

Tavares eventually put Agitprop! on hiatus to focus on fiction writing (which has included "Fast Ones" from the [[Dennis Cooper]] anthology, ''Userlands''). In 2007, Agitprop! returned, first by making much of its back-catalogue available through [[CDBaby]]. In December of 2007, Juha's album ''The Grooms of God'' became the first new Agitprop! release since the label was revived.

==Artists on Agitprop! Records==
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* [[And I Can't Wait]]
* Best Revenge
* Deep Dickollective
* Fagatron<ref>{{cite web|title=fagatron the page <!-- BOT GENERATED TITLE -->|url=http://www.geocities.com/jo6512/Fagatronpg.html|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5kmDKlELa|archivedate=2009-10-24|deadurl=yes}}</ref><ref name=fagatron>{{cite journal|journal=Advocate|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xGQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=fagatron+screamers+Agitprop!&source=bl&ots=Fx9lQWAZSl&sig=ASWSR9Yucx970rgIwN_zzUds4JE&hl=en&ei=EK2LS6DtCYT00gSfx7jKCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=fagatron%20screamers%20Agitprop!&f=false|date=1 October 2002|title=Screamers: Meet the boys of Fagatron. They're out, they're pround and they're really loud|author=Dave White}}</ref>
* [[Fakefight]]
* [http://freeverse.tv Free Verse]<ref name=auto-wl-2004>{{citation |year=2004 |title=Maximum rocknroll, Issue 252 |publisher=Maximum Rock 'n' Roll |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VVRbAAAAMAAJ&cd=2}}</ref>
* Juha
* [[Kids Like Us(band)|Kids Like Us]]
* [[Ninja Death Squad]]
* [http://www.kimkinakin.com/skinjobs Skinjobs]
* [[To See You Broken]]
* [http://www.iamloved.00band.com/ iamloved]
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==See also==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.agitproplovesyou.com Agitprop! Records web site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/agitproprecords Agitprop! Myspace page]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.agitproprecords.com Old Agitprop Records Webpage] by way of the [[Internet Archive]] Wayback Machine
* [http://www.akashicbooks.com/userlands.htm Link to Userlands: New Fiction from the Blogging Underground, featuring a story by Tavares]
* [http://rubthis.blogspot.com Tavares' blog spot]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1555838553 Homocore book]

[[Category:American record labels]]
[[Category:Independent record labels]]
[[Category:Queercore record labels]]