The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk.
Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline.
Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
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The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
...aaaand the newest @maximumrocknroll@counterforce.social MRR Reviews digest for March is also online for you to print, distro, and circle reviews of records to check out later:
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
Also online now: our How-To for using #Faircamp and #neocities to make your own band website.
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
Fantastic roundup up zines collected on tour with NYC's PERSONA:
https://the-counterforce.org/zines-i-got-on-tour-in-asia-and-traveling-home/
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
A couple of new reviews posted:
https://the-counterforce.org/gul-demo/
https://the-counterforce.org/the-smarthearts-not-forgotten/
https://the-counterforce.org/stresssysteem-de-vorige-oorlog/
https://the-counterforce.org/the-dissidents-d-o-v-e-a-better-world-split/
https://the-counterforce.org/red-wine-glue-vol-2-comp/
https://the-counterforce.org/komatiite-famine-pact-ep-demo/
https://the-counterforce.org/vending-machine-live-at-abc/
Reminder there are also RSS feeds for everything on the site! There's an RSS feed for reviews only, if that's all you care about: https://the-counterforce.org/tag/reviews/feed.xml
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
Added the newest MRR Reviews Digest zine (from February):
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
@malifee@mastodon.ie oh yeah I'm planning to code one up myself that will integrate into The Counterforce site!
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
The January digest zine of @maximumrocknroll@counterforce.social interviews is up on our #zines page:
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
Issue #9 of The Counterforce print zine is here. Print it out and distribute it yourself:
https://the-counterforce.org/zines/the-counterforce/
All the contents are also online on our website https://the-counterforce.org ... but paper is more fun! #zine #distroism
The Counterforce is an initiative to push back against the corporate capture of hardcore punk. Rather than funnel punk into profit-driven walled gardens, we want to foment and encourage a culture that is autonomous and independent. This is not just a nostalgic, backward-facing project – we want to explore new alternatives for spreading hardcore punk online and offline. Read more about the motivations and goals of this project: https://the-counterforce.org/manifesto
Our guide to Mastodon and The Fediverse (for punks) is now translated into Spanish!!!
La guía para Mastodon y el Fediverso (¡para punks!)
https://the-counterforce.org/guia-para-el-fediverso/
Available as a printable PDF if you'd like to print and distribute:
https://the-counterforce.org/guia-para-el-fediverso/#zine