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.

Contents 1 List of DIY artists 2 Record labels 3 Musicinstrument builder 4 Film

[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
• Applied Communications
• Arctic Monkeys
• Beat Happening - included Calvin Jonson who founded K Records
• Black Flag - punk band who made DIY culture more well known in North America.
• Boogdish
• Bomb The Music Industry!
• Cat Power
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Chicks On Speed
• Conor Oberst
• Danny!
• 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".
• Emperor X
• Fugazi
• The Hope Bombs
• I-Scream and Kathryn Williams
• Kam Andresen
• Klaxons
• KMFDM
• Kraul
• Yuri Landman
• Larrikin Love
• Locust Toybox
• 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
• The Microphones
• Minor Threat - members also founded dischord records, American hardcore punk label.
• The Minutemen
• Misfits
• Neongrau
• NOFX
• Phish
• Placid Casual
• Propagandhi
• Red Monkey - ran the Slampt organisation, a distributor for DIY music and zines in Newcastle upon Tyne during the nineties.
• 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.
• Sentridoh
• Seth Lakeman
• Shades of Pale
• Super Furry Animals
• Tegan and Sara
• Thanksgiving
• The Pets
• The Tender Forever
• The You Are
• Treeline
• The XYZ Affair

[edit] Record labels

• Alternative Tentacles
• Candy Ass Records
• Caw Records
• Chemikal Underground
• Dischord Records
• Drowning Man Records
• G7 Welcoming Committee Records
• K Records
• Outpunk
• Plan-It-X
• Saddle Creek
• S.P.A.M. Records
• SST Records
• Sub-Pop Records
• Touch & Go Records

[edit] Musicinstrument builder

• Yuri Landman

[edit] Film

• Neptune Films - a small film production/distribution company that utilizes punk-influenced DIY methods of promotion and distribution