Punk Stuff
Everything around the music: DIY ethics, fashion and its meanings, squats and venues, flyers and screen prints, punk scenes around the world and the unwritten rules of a basement show.
How to make a punk battle jacket that actually lasts
A practical guide to building a punk battle jacket: choosing the right vest, patches, sewing with dental floss, setting studs, and painting a backpatch.
Dr. Martens: Boots, Subcultures and Lace Colour Myths
How Dr. Martens boots became staples of skinhead, punk and goth style, the truth behind lace colour myths, and the boot's history since 1960.
Squats, cellars and sound: what became of Europe's DIY venues
Ungdomshuset, Rote Flora, Köpi, Metelkova and Christiania: how Europe's best-known squatted and DIY music venues survived, changed or disappeared.
How to make punk patches: stencils, screens, paint and thread
A practical guide to making punk patches: stencilling, screen printing, painting and sewing. Materials, techniques and hard-won tips from the DIY tradition.
Men Va Fan! 2001–2016: what this site used to be
A look back at the original Men Va Fan!, a homemade Stockholm punk website with MP3s, zines, football pages and an anarchist Melanie C fan club.
The Mohawk in Punk: From UK82 to Liberty Spikes
How the mohawk became punk's most recognisable haircut: its tribal and military roots, UK82 adoption, liberty spikes, and a practical guide to making one…
Punk for the Perplexed: A Beginner's Field Guide
New to punk? A plain-spoken guide to what punk is, its subgenres, finding gigs, DIY ethics, pit etiquette and where to start listening.
Punk fashion: Westwood, McLaren and the SEX shop
How Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's SEX shop, bondage trousers and DIY clothing shaped punk fashion — and how high fashion absorbed it.
Paste, Copy, Repeat: A Short History of Punk Flyer Art
From Raymond Pettibon's ink drawings to Gee Vaucher's collages and the photocopier, how punk flyers became art and then collectibles.
House show and basement show etiquette: the unwritten rules
How to behave at house and basement shows: paying the door, respecting the space, pit manners, safer spaces policies and helping touring bands.
Punk symbols and what they mean
Safety pins, the circle-A, Crass's logo, the anti-Nazi symbol, Black Flag's bars and the X on the hand: where punk's most-loaded symbols come from and what…
Screen Printing Band Shirts and Patches at Home
A practical guide to home screen printing for punk bands: screens, emulsion, exposure, inks, cheap setups and the mistakes that ruin your first run of…
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DIY-kultur, flyers, mode, ockupationer, spelställen och allt konstigt punken lämnar efter sig.
Men Va Fan! 2001–2016: vad sajten brukade vara
En tillbakablick på originalet Men Va Fan!, en hemsnickrad Stockholmsk punksajt med mp3:or, fanzines, fotbollssidor och en anarkistisk Melanie C-fanklubb.
Ultrahuset och Hunddagiset: två punkhål i Stockholm
Ultrahuset och Hunddagiset var två viktiga platser för Stockholms punkscen. Här är en personlig betraktelse över deras roll och det osäkra minnet.