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Cultural Infrastructure & Digital Commons

Interviews, essays, and resources about the cultural infrastructure. From independent platforms, free software, and digital commons to collectives, community centers, DIY venues, autonomous spaces, and other projects built outside corporate and capitalist platform control.

Opinion & Editorials

Thoughts on Substack, Digital Platforms, and “The Death of Music Journalism”

Mittens XVX Sep 11, 2026

In early August, I was at the seaside, taking a break from writing about punk bands and releases. Then, while checking DIY Conspiracy’s IG feed, I was bombarded with posts about another…

Interviews

Faircamp: A Radically Sustainable Tool for Music Publishing

Mittens XVX Jun 26, 2026

Faircamp is a free software tool for artists who want to publish music on their own terms. You point it to a folder of audio files, and it generates a clean, portable, self-contained static…

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La Cultura del Barrio: Sports, Antifascism & Neighborhood Power in Buenos Aires

DIY Conspiracy Feb 20, 2026

La Cultura del Barrio in the neighborhood of Villa Crespo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the 2025 recipients of the funds distributed annually by DIY Solidarity. With the 2026…

Interviews

Mirlo: The Bandcamp Alternative Building Federative & Decentralized Tools for Music…

Mittens XVX Dec 3, 2025

Trying to stay consistent at running a DIY punk website for years often brings me a weird kind of pressure and internal conflicts: the routine of reviewing as many records as possible, the…

Interviews

Dajjeh: Building & Sustaining a DIY Punk Community in Beirut

Mittens XVX May 21, 2025

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…

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Satan Not Hatin’: Pushing Back Against Hate & Bigotry in Alt Music Scenes

Gabriel Kuhn May 16, 2025

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,…

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Infernö Class Recörding: An Interview with Trystan O’Connell

Nathan Brown Mar 21, 2025

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”…

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Ihitiko Ksespasma: Self-Managed Spaces, Radical Anticonformity, and the DIY Scene in Greece

Mittens XVX Feb 21, 2025

The DIY punk scene in Greece has long been a stronghold of radical anticonformity and political organizing. Ihitiko Ksespasma (Ηχητικό Ξέσπασμα, or Noise Outburst) is a political DIY punk…

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Etniko Bandido: Decolonization, Land Regeneration, and the Spirit of DIY in the Philippines

Gabriel Kuhn Feb 14, 2025

Last year, we launched the project DIY Solidarity that allows us to redistribute funds among DIY communities to beat at least some of the injustices that come with a global economic order…

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Radikal Sounds: The Self-Organization & Politics of DIY Sound in Greece

Mittens XVX Mar 25, 2024

Radikal Sounds is a self-organized sound collective based in Greece, founded in December 2021. The collective's mission is to share knowledge about using audio equipment (for recording,…

Interviews

Studio Black Cloud: Interview with Bri Doom

Nathan Brown Jun 16, 2023

Following on from our interview with John of SLPC, we have an interview with another DIY punk studio engineer and producer: Bri 'Doom' Talbot from Studio Black Cloud. Aside from playing…

Interviews

South London Punk Collective: An Interview with John Youens of SLPC Recording / Mixing / Mastering

Nathan Brown Jan 5, 2023

With the advent of affordable digital recording it is possible for any band to record themselves, but not everyone has the technical know-how or good enough equipment to produce something…

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