List of DIY artists

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The DIY ethic has been important for many punk and indie bands and musicians. Many have created a following entirely by self-promotion. It's common to distribute MP3 files over the Internet for download and promote a band by registering a domain name or using MySpace.

[edit] List of DIY artists

This list includes artists, like the Arctic Monkeys who are now signed to a label, but became famous through self-promotion.

Ani Difranco
Arctic Monkeys
Beat Happening - included Calvin Jonson who founded K Records
Bomb The Music Industry!
Cat Power
Chemikal Underground
Conor Oberst
Defiance, Ohio
Delgados
Desperate Bicycles - early UK DIY band. the song Don't Back the Front could be considered a rallying cry for bands following a DIY aesthetic, the lyrics being an invitation to cut, press and distribute your own "xerox punk".
Fugazi
I-Scream and Kathryn Williams
KMFDM
Larrikin Love
Malaise Douteux - their way of thinking includes the DIY idea, as well as other elements.
Mass Movement of the Moth
mc chris
MC Frontalot - Gained a small following through Song Fight!, then through self-promotion on his own website and was recently picked up as Penny Arcade's official rapper
Minor Threat - members also founded dischord records, American hardcore punk label.
Misfits
Neongrau
O Pioneers!!!
Placid Casual
Propagandhi
Red Monkey - ran the Slampt organisation, a distributor for DIY music and zines in Newcastle upon Tyne during the nineties.
Saddle Creek
Sandi Thom
Scritti Politti - included a break down of the manufacturing costs on the packaging of their first seven inch single. Later abandoned early DIY aesthetic and Marxist politics.
Seth Lakeman
Super Furry Animals
Tegan and Sara
The Pets
The You Are
Treeline
The XYZ Affair