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Conversations with bands, artists, writers, organizers, and others involved in DIY punk scenes and projects around the world.
The Counterforce: Building a DIY Punk Infrastructure Against Corporate Platforms
The Counterforce is a DIY punk project that launched on the symbolic date of May 1st, 2024, and it’s quickly become one of the projects I’m most excited about. Based in Montreal but run by…
Zevk: Finding Pleasure, Fighting Erasure, and Amplifying Representation
Zevk is a queer-feminist punk quartet from Paris who dropped one of the best demos this summer, released on tape by Dirty Slap Records in France and A World Divided Tapes internationally.…
An Oral History of The Apostles & Militant Anarcho-Punk: An Interview with Chris Low
From 1979 onward, Crass reshaped punk and its connection to the anarchist movement, as well as the very nature of protest music and subculture worldwide. Their impact is undeniable. Yet it…
Urgent Kill: Dutch Youth Crew Returns With ‘It’s OK To Be Kind’
Tony Raven is a hardcore lifer from West-Friesland, Holland. A family man, barber, and cancer survivor, Tony is known for making his passions apparent to all. He’s curated his look to…
Tomar Control: Peruvian Hardcore Girls Start European Tour Today
Tomar Control, the band that put Peruvian hardcore on the map, is returning to Europe to promote their new album, Frente al miedo, out on Refuse Records. With close to thirty dates in eleven…
Music, Memory, and Resistance: Doğa Sultan is Documenting the SWANA Punk Underground
Doğa Sultan is a Türkiye-based artist who works in the fields of textile and garment design, as well as street art and graffiti. Alongside these practices, she has long been involved in…
Dajjeh: Building & Sustaining a DIY Punk Community in Beirut
Among the projects DIY Solidarity funded this year was Dajjeh (ضجة, Arabic for “loud noise,” a word often used to mean something disturbingly awful), an informal collective of seven people…
Satan Not Hatin’: Pushing Back Against Hate & Bigotry in Alt Music Scenes
One of the projects that DIY Solidarity was able to fund this year was Satan Not Hatin’, which is a grassroots campaign launched by the Global Order of Satan to push back against the racism,…
Vegan Straight Edge as Bodily & Societal Transmutation: An Interview with xapothecaryx
In early May 2025, UK vegan straight edge band xapothecaryx unleashed their latest EP, The Machine Demands Blood. Even though I am not much of a fan of metalcore and mosh music these days…
Neven: Our Sound and Identity Still Remain Fluid
Neven is a hardcore band that formed around 2021 in Belgrade. Their name comes from the Serbian word for the marigold, the sun-loving flower known for its bright yellow-orange blooms. The…
Żegota: We Wanted to Create Something That Would Make the World a Better Place
When DIY Conspiracy began back in the early aughts, we were greatly inspired by hardcore zines like Inside Front and HeartattaCk, as well as CrimethInc.’s early books like Days of War,…
Infernö Class Recörding: An Interview with Trystan O’Connell
The latest recording studio to be born out of the DIY anarcho-punk movement in London is Infernö Class Recörding, responsible for capturing the vibrancy of the recent Eastfield Terminus 10”…