In Honor: A Compilation To Beat Cancer
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In Honor: A Compilation to Beat Cancer is a compilation album
released by Vagrant Records
in 2004. As the name implies, it is a benefit album with proceeds going to fight Cancer. In this case, the proceeds went
to the Syrentha Savio Endowment and the Sean McGrath Fund. Alternative
and punk
bands contributed tracks, with many being previously unreleased.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
released by Vagrant Records
Vagrant Records
Vagrant Records is an indie rock label based in Los Angeles, California and is home to such artists as The Hold Steady, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Active Child, PJ Harvey, Reptar, School of Seven Bells, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thrice, James Vincent McMorrow, Placebo, and many...
in 2004. As the name implies, it is a benefit album with proceeds going to fight Cancer. In this case, the proceeds went
to the Syrentha Savio Endowment and the Sean McGrath Fund. Alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
and punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
bands contributed tracks, with many being previously unreleased.