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Last updated: Tue Nov 04 2025 14:18:26 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

DIY represents a rebellious, self-sufficient approach to music-making that prioritizes creative authenticity over polished production, often recorded in bedrooms, basements, or home studios with limited equipment. The tag encompasses raw, unfiltered sounds across various genres, united by an anti-commercial ethos that values artistic independence and direct connection with audiences. Born from punk's democratizing spirit, DIY celebrates imperfection and accessibility, proving that passion and creativity matter more than technical perfection or industry backing.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
83		1977	Various Artists	Manifesto	diy rock
24		1977-09	The Germs	Forming	diy garage garage rock punk rock
99		1987	Various Artists	MSG, Vol. 1		noise # 43 garage # 83
65		1987	Various Artists	Through the Soil	bedroom pop diy indie folk indie pop indie rock lo-fi slowcore
90		1993	Automatic	New Beginning	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock	los angeles # 68
40		1993	The Sunshine Fix	A Spiraling World of Pop	alternative pop alternative rock diy indie pop indie rock lo-fi
56		1993	Automatic	Venus Hour	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock
57		1993-10-10	Shellac	Extraneous Material	diy noise rock
4		1994	Automatic	Calling It (Peaking Lights Disco Rerub)	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock
52		1994	Automatic	Suicide In Texas (Panther Modern Remix)	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock
7		1994-05-01	Air Miami	Fourteen Songs	alternative pop alternative rock america american american underground diy dream pop indie pop indie rock lo-fi usa washington	american underground # 33 washington # 64
50		1995	Захар Май	Дорогие москвичи (2007)	diy folk reggae
66		1999	Automatic	Skyscraper	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock	los angeles # 5
47		1999-04	CK	Kind of a Big Deal	bay area diy	bay area # 3
76		2000-10-01	John Maus	Love Letters From Hell	bedroom pop diy electronic lo-fi singer-songwriter
88		2001	Automatic	Mind Your Own Business	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock	los angeles # 64
70		2003	Kill Yourself	The Soft Touch of Man	diy leeds post-punk	leeds # 89
74		2003-03	Les Vieilles Salopes	Aime-moi tendre, Aime-moi vrai.		paris # 29
36		2004	Miss Helium	Vive la Sporulation	cyberpunk diy electropunk francais french
55		2004	Various Artists	The Decline of Western Civilization	art punk diy garage rock hardcore hardcore punk
14		2005	Jeremy Smoking Jacket	Now we are dead and other stories	apocalyptic folk art pop art rock avant-pop bristol british diy dream pop english freak folk glitch pop noise post-rock	bristol # 45
91		2005	Liz Phair	Girlysound - Demo Tapes - 1992	diy lo-fi singer-songwriter
96		2005-10	Bomb the Music Industry!	To Leave or Die in Long Island	ska ska punk	ska # 50 ska punk # 60
81		2005-11-23	新居昭乃	Sora No Uta	breakbeat chaotic hardcore contemporary folk diy drone gangsta rap german germany gothic rock grindcore harmonica idm improvisation indie folk japanese rock jazz rock krautrock male vocalists mashup meditation minnesota ndw norway norwegian nouvelle scene francaise oldies power pop reggaeton schlager speedcore techno trap	schlager # 4 contemporary folk # 16 mashup # 37 germany # 37 chaotic hardcore # 52 japanese rock # 55 ndw # 71 speedcore # 72 nouvelle scene francaise # 77 improvisation # 79 harmonica # 88 minnesota # 91
80		2006	Tar...Feathers	Make way for the ocean floor to fall to the surface	diy sweden	sweden # 7
22		2006	Antifamily	Antifamily	diy
82		2006	SAKURA	Greatest Hits Lo-Fi and D.I.Y.	diy
20		2006-01-15	Merankorii	Melencolia III	alternative ambient dark ambient dark folk diy industrial neofolk portugal	portugal # 13
17		2006-09-01	The Crabapples	Crabapples For Change	diy
37		2006-11-30	John Most	Persephone	poetry spoken word	spoken word # 20 new weird america # 42 new york city # 47 poetry # 78
43		2007	Tinyfolk	Bill	acoustic diy folk lo-fi new weird america	new weird america # 12
13		2007-02-18	Bark Cat Bark	Puzzlewood	alternative pop art pop baroque pop chamber pop diy electronic experimental pop indie pop lo-fi sophisti-pop
6		2007-04-00	Sick Sick Birds	Chemical Trains EP	baltimore diy pop punk power pop	baltimore # 57
9		2007-05-01	pocus whiteface	But It's Home / This Room Spins	diy
18		2007-07-07	The Deaf	This Bunny Bites	diy minneapolis sludge stoner rock	minneapolis # 74
75		2007-09-11	Attica! Attica!	Dead Skin / Dried Blood	acoustic diy folk punk punk rock
97		2007-09-21	The Low Anthem	What the Crow Brings	acoustic diy gospel	gospel # 51
51		2007-12-01	call me betty	der Gini-Koeffizient	berlin diy german grindcore hardcore powerviolence screamo
34		2008	Bilge Pump	Rupert The Sky	alternative diy leeds post-punk	leeds # 74
58		2008	Fujiko	genetic endeavors	diy emo rock slowcore
63		2008-01-14	Autobus	Autobus	alternative diy peruvian rock	peruvian # 85
11		2008-07-01	John Most	Atelier	spoken word poetry	spoken word # 1 new weird america # 29 poetry # 51
16		2008-08-29	志方あきこ	Umineko no Naku Koro ni Theme Song	breakbeat chaotic hardcore contemporary folk diy gangsta rap gothic rock grindcore harmonica improvisation indie folk industrial japanese rock krautrock male vocalists mashup minnesota ndw norway norwegian nouvelle scene francaise nu metal oldies reggaeton schlager speedcore techno trap	harmonica # 11 ndw # 18 improvisation # 30 nouvelle scene francaise # 39 minnesota # 69
72		2009	Totally Nebular	Boat Boat	america american american underground avant-folk avant-pop diy electronic experimental folk experimental indie freak folk lo-fi new weird america usa	avant-pop # 19 new weird america # 34 america # 54 american underground # 66 experimental indie # 83 experimental folk # 92
23		2009-08-02	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Fire Island	america american american underground diy experimental indie lo-fi new weird america new york no wave usa	american underground # 38 experimental indie # 67
78		2009-10-06	Padla Bear Outfit	n i c h e g o	diy lo-fi
38		2010-01-27	Durlin Lurt	Him Jenson	diy lo-fi plunderphonics sound collage
26		2010-01-29	Raw Thrills	beko_29	america american american underground diy lo-fi usa	american underground # 43
12		2011	LE DEAD PROJET	Keep On Living	chaotic hardcore diy emo emocore french hardcore indie rock metal noise screamo
87		2011-01-01	Lee Noble	No Becoming	america american american underground avant-folk california dark ambient diy drone electronic experimental folk experimental indie experimental rock krautrock lo-fi los angeles usa	avant-folk # 35 los angeles # 63 america # 87 american underground # 92 experimental indie # 96 experimental folk # 98
42		2011-08-01	Telepathic Teddy Bear	Reactions	alternative alternative pop america american american underground art pop boston chillwave diy electronic electronic pop new wave singer-songwriter soul synthpop usa	america # 21 electronic pop # 48 american underground # 54 boston # 55
31		2011-10-23	Valotihkuu	Flutter EP	alternative alternative pop avant-pop chillwave diy dream pop dreamwave electronic electronic pop experimental indie experimental pop indie electronic indietronica lo-fi post-rock russia russian	dreamwave # 7 electronic pop # 41 experimental indie # 71
2		2011-12-01	Come To Get Her	Life So Changing	acoustic belarus diy punk rock	belarus # 18
19		2012	Schwervon!	Courage	diy
60		2012-01-30	Betamaxx	Wild Foxes	alternative britain british british underground disco diy duo electronic electronic pop england english europe lo-fi synthpop	duo # 41 electronic pop # 60 britain # 74 british underground # 95
86		2012-03-13	Uku Kuut	Vision Of Estonia	alternative dance diy lo-fi nu jazz outsider house smooth jazz	outsider house # 80
25		2012-03	Dan Webb and the Spiders	Dan Webb and the Spiders	boston diy garage melodic hardcore rock	boston # 47
67		2013-04-15	Ancst	the humane condition	berlin black metal blackened crust blackened death metal diy german hardcore metal	blackened crust # 52
69		2013-04-16	Black Bug	Reflecting the Light	art punk diy electronic lo-fi minimal synth
73		2013-06-11	Ghost Cat	Cave Sounds	diy hardcore post-hardcore screamo straight edge	straight edge # 47
85		2013-09-24	ПорноФильмы	Скучная Жизнь	diy post-punk rock russian rock
71		2014-08-13	Ancst	In Turmoil	black metal blackened crust blackened death metal crust d-beat death metal diy german grindcore hardcore metal post-black metal rabm	rabm # 57 blackened crust # 58 d-beat # 60
39		2015-02-17	A-Live	best of acapella	a capella diy duet italiano jazz jewish opera pop	jewish # 14 a capella # 42 italiano # 47 duet # 59
54		2015-04-10	colligere	split	diy emocore melodic hardcore screamo
21		2016-06-29	Sintipon	Lovetime Groove	dance-pop diy electronic pop eurobeat eurodance house russian synthpop techno	electronic pop # 29 eurobeat # 36
32		2017	PZ	Império Auto-Mano	diy electronic portugal portuguese	portuguese # 8 portugal # 29
59		2017	Blasteroid	The World Is a Terrible Garage / Death of a Lobster	brooklyn diy garage rock new york post-rock rock slacker rock	brooklyn # 24
100		2017-03-03	R. Missing	Unsummering	alternative darkwave diy dream pop electronic indie rock shoegaze
98		2017-05-05	Fazerdaze	Morningside	dream pop
94		2017-05-17	Shizune	CHEAT DEATH, LIVE DEAD!		skramz # 76
77		2017-11-10	Shipwrecks	Shipwrecks	diy folk instrumental post-rock
62		2017-12-01	University Acid Squad	Promos	diy
68		2018-05-25	Dogtooth & Nail	Learning How To Unlearn	blues diy feminist folk punk	feminist # 81
84		2018-12-31	NEGATIVE XP	MSG, Vol. 1
10		2019-10-25	James Hutton	Story of My Life EP	acoustic alternative diy emo folk grunge indie pop indie rock lo-fi pop pop rock power pop rock singer-songwriter unplugged
64		2020-09-18	The Suits	Navy	alternative diy electronic new york
92		2021	Computer Magic	Spectronic Ep	america american american underground bedroom pop chillwave diy electronic electronic pop experimental indie female vocalists lo-fi new york synthpop usa	bedroom pop # 6 new york # 72 electronic pop # 84 america # 93 american underground # 95 experimental indie # 97
61		2021-02-26	Nightshift	Zöe	diy experimental rock indie rock post-punk
93		2021-02	Automatic	Signal Remixes	diy female vocalists indie rock los angeles rock	los angeles # 72
33		2021-12-11	Trustfall	Untying The Giant Knot	diy emo new jersey philadelphia	philadelphia # 74 new jersey # 85
35		2021-12-22	Week Knees	Fingers Crossed	diy emo midwest emo post-hardcore
8		2022	Gerhard Müller	Herzenergie	diy
44		2022-06-24	Automatic	Excess	rock indie rock	los angeles # 50
45		2023	Daniel Johnston	Hi, How Are You? (The Unfinished Album)		experimental pop # 5
95		2023	Freezer	...i do my part by not killing spiders	diy emo noise rock post-hardcore shoegaze
48		2023-08-25	Strawberry Runners	Strawberry Runners	diy
1			One Inch Man	Space, Time & Plexiglass		deutschland # 30 synthesizer # 32 welsh # 38 science fiction # 76
3			1800s Sea Monster	The 12 Ways To Grace The Stars	acid folk acoustic alternative diy dream pop freak folk garage garage rock lo-fi new weird america noise pop sadcore slowcore	sadcore # 6 acid folk # 64
15			1800s Sea Monster	Day is Dying in the West (Unfinished EP)	acid folk alternative country diy folk freak folk garage pop post-hardcore rock	acid folk # 69
28			1800s Sea Monster	P.S. Do You Ever Wish You Could Breathe Underwater?	acid folk alternative country diy folk freak folk garage pop post-hardcore rock	acid folk # 73
29			Mary Weldon	Dementio Remixes	ambient chillout dance diy downtempo electro electronic electronica folktronica fusion jazzcore lo-fi lounge pop soundtrack synthpop trip-hop	jazzcore # 53
30			志方あきこ	Byakumu no Mayu ～Ricordando il passato～	breakbeat chaotic hardcore contemporary folk diy gangsta rap gothic rock grindcore harmonica improvisation indie folk industrial instrumental japanese rock krautrock male vocalists mashup minnesota ndw norway norwegian nouvelle scene francaise nu metal oldies reggaeton schlager speedcore techno trap	japanese rock # 9 ndw # 26 harmonica # 27 improvisation # 38 nouvelle scene francaise # 46 minnesota # 75
79			DREAM CEREMONY	Hearts On Fire	alternative diy lo-fi indie	lo-fi indie # 63
5			1800s Sea Monster	sneak-peek: "demo"	diy garage garage rock noise noise rock
27			gelatina de concreto	(antes era) terapia na terça	diy
41			Estobahn	Music and Ideas [Demo]	diy lo-fi
46			Tom Frampton	Making Folk a Threat Again!	diy
49			the Sky is Red	Легко вбивати кохання EP	alternative diy melodic metalcore post-hardcore
53			The Earth Program	Invade!	alternative chicago diy garage grunge post-punk shoegaze space rock
89			Orlon Gunner	Orlon Gunner	alternative rock diy indie rock synthpop

Related genres

• lo-fi
• alternative
• electronic
• rock
• noise
• indie rock
• acoustic
• folk
• pop
• instrumental