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At Home With Birds in Row
November 18, 2015
Birds in Row are without a doubt one of the most hard-working European bands. They’ve spent the past few years relentlessly touring the world, they got signed on Deathwish Inc., but what’s most important, they ...
Attäktïx – Demo Tape ’15
November 14, 2015
Five songs of Motörhead-like rage with a large helping of Scandinavian käng for a true punk enjoyment. Well, playing rock’n’roll riffage over pounding d-beat jams is nothing new to the world of bad music, though ...
Feral Crust: Herbal Medicine Handbook Announce
November 13, 2015
Feral Crust is a community based autonomous space in the slum area of Taguig, Philippines. Since March 2014 the Feral Crust space is located on Mabato Road Brgy, a squatted public road near cement and ...
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Remek, Gattaca, and Upyr Live in Sofia
October 30, 2015
To me booking Remek and Gattaca is what DIY is all about. Making your dream come true and bringing people along the way who pursue the same dreams. From shooting the poster with my flat mate, to loading the ...
Expanding Home: The Meandering Playlist
July 1, 2015
Let’s begin with an introduction: My name is Brian Smith and I’m a musician from Portland, Oregon, USA that just completed a tour spanning most of the last three years, primarily in Europe, but in ...
Fluff: The Zine
June 25, 2015
Fluff Fest is one of the few big hardcore punk festivals providing space for DIY fanzines and it seems the ‘FANZINE Tent’ will be there once again this year. This time Amsterdam based Typewriter Society is doing a Fanzine ...
EYEHATEGOD live in Sofia
June 13, 2015
It’s June 12th it’s already hot as hell in Sofia. Tonight we’re about to see and experience EYEHATEGOD’s swampy, dirty sludge in Bulgaria for the very first time thanks to Rawk’n’Roll. It’s already a bit past ...
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At Home With Birds in Row
November 18, 2015
Birds in Row are without a doubt one of the most hard-working European bands. They’ve spent the past few years relentlessly touring the world, they got signed on Deathwish Inc., but what’s most important, they ...
Remek: We’re a bunch of bad jokers
September 30, 2015
Remek from Prague is a DIY hardcore punk rooted in the late 90’s emo sound and the political side of hardcore punk. They have been around for quite some time now, formed after the demise ...
Like Hand Grenades of Love: An Interview with By The ...
August 2, 2015
Right now Trial – one of our most favorite bands in the universe – is touring Europe with By the Grace of God, a US hardcore gem that has existed in quite a peculiar way. They’ve called it ...
Old Trees
July 8, 2015
Old Trees is a DIY folk punk band rooted in eco anarchist, vegan and queer feminist beliefs. They started in late 2011 in Portugal, and eventually became a nomadic collective of musicians and activists from ...
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Attäktïx – Demo Tape ’15
November 14, 2015
Five songs of Motörhead-like rage with a large helping of Scandinavian käng for a true punk enjoyment. Well, playing rock’n’roll riffage over pounding d-beat jams is nothing new to the world of bad music, though ...
Disterror – Catharsis
November 12, 2015
Disterror’s debut full-length is the heaviest crust record I’ve heard in a long time. The band hails from the barren fields of Mexico and takes on a downtuned, distorted assault of seven blistering tracks that ...
Ruins – Within
September 8, 2015
Six metallic songs of dark and melodramatic crust hardcore in the second LP of this German band. I met these guys in 2013 when they were touring to promote their “Incidents” LP and I have nothing but ...
Deconsecrate – Nothing Is Sacred
September 6, 2015
On DIYconspiracy we’ve ranted hundreds of times that throwing other band names as references when writing press releases to introduce your own shit is more stupid than sniffing cat litter. We have another tip, don’t present your ...
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Death To Punk!
December 15, 2014
From the booklet “Mort Au Punk” by Pekatralatak accompanying their split LP with Urban Blight, released in March 2004. Original text in French can be found here. CRASS has been singing “Punk is dead”, a long time ...
Ceremony Interview (2009)
October 25, 2014
Ceremony is a band that needs no introduction. The band started in Rohnert Park, CA, in 2005 to become one of the most important bands in hardcore/punk gaining their popularity entirely by the music, intensive ...
Betercore
October 2, 2014
Self-proclaimed as youthcrustcore Betercore started in Amsterdam in 1997 and existed with numerous line-up changes until the winter of 2003. Digging up through old zines I found this Betercore bio, written by the band themselves in ...
Efa Supertramp Balkan Tour Report
September 1, 2014
Efa Supertramp is a DIY acoustic singer-songwriter from Cardiff, Wales (Cymru). She has songs in both English and Cymraeg (native language) that speak about freedom, antiauthoritarian organizing and personal topics. This tour diary originally appeared in Fuck ...
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