CouchSurfing - Couchsurfer%27s Guide to Punk

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This page is being created by users of the Punk Rock Group to provide travellers who have a good taste in music with sources of information. So for your convenience you find a list below that consists of links to sites where you can find out what to do or who to see at the place you're going to.
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1 Worldwide
2 Africa
3 North America
- 3.1 Canada
- 3.2 USA
  - 3.2.1 New York city
4 South America
5 Asia
6 Australia
7 Europe

Worldwide

http://www.anarcho-punk.net/
http://www.byofl.org/ : Book your own fuckin' life

Africa

North America

Canada

USA

http://www.houseshowdatabase.com/ : A guide to alternative venues all over the states

New York city

http://www.abcnorio.org/ : ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism

South America

http://anarcopunknoticias.blogspot.com/ : all about anarchopunk in America latina

Asia

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Philippines

South Korea

http://www.myspace.com/soeultari : DIY punkrock show organizer
http://brokeinkorea.proboards.com/ : english web board on korean punk scene. people who are posting here are mostly G.Is or retarded english teachers.

Australia

Europe

http://radar.squat.net/ : stuffs to do in your punk life in Europe
http://squat.net : news about squatting in Europe
http://abb.hardcore.lt/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=10&Itemid=60 : Eastern European links @ the Abolishing the Borders from Below site

Austria

Wien

http://www.myspace.com/deathtollbooking : booking/shows
http://www.med-user.net/~ekh/ : EKH, famous austrian squat

Belarus

http://www.375crew.org/ : d.i.y. political punk/hardcore culture of Belarus
http://eatyourselfcrew.ucoz.ru/ : Eat Yourself Crew

Belgium

According to those people :

" OK, so the situation in Bulgaria is very different than in the other European countries.

There are no squats and autonomous centres!

There are problems with Nazis in cities like Sofia and Plovdiv, so you have to be very aware of this, especially if you're with a mohawk and dress like a punk.

Varna was much better, but the only DIY punk club was closed by the police two months ago and there is nothing happening right now there.

Bulgarian and Serbian are the most untolerant to gay people societies in Europe. 80% of Bulgarians are homophobes and some kind of nationalists. Punk shows are two types: completely apolitical or nazi-friendly. The hardcore scene is into tough guy macho beatdown or NYHC stuff without political messages. Very patriotic, sexist and homophobe.

There are environmentalist with a hippie attitude, some rastas and drum&bass fans that are cool people, but don't have any relevant political culture. There are bikers and they have a NGO called Bikevolution, they're cool people, but normal looking people with prejudices on punx with mohawks etc."

Unfortunately, my short experience there confirm this more or less :(

Bikepunk^Talk^CS 15:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

http://a-bg.net/new/ : anarchist portal

Croatia

Pula

http://www.myspace.com/monteparadisopula http://squat.net/monteparadiso/ - squat with gigs, film screenings etc.

Zagreb

http://www.hranaaneoruzje.net/ : Food Not Bombs
http://pierottijeva11.org/info : Autonomous cultural center

Czech Republic

http://www.punk.cz/index.asp?menu=603 www.punk.cz
http://www.a-punk.cz/ : active ! punk

Praha

http://milada.org/zpravodajstvi/category/english : squat in Praha since 1998 (evicted)
http://kk.czechcore.cz/index.php?english : anarchist cafe/infoshop
http://squat.net/praha/ : squatblog

Denmark

Copenhagen

http://www.ungdomshuset.dk/spip.php?page=english : a famous squat that was evicted, now a new social centre/venue
http://www.dortheavej-61.dk/ the new website of the new ungdomshuset
http://www.myspace.com/copenhagenunderground : underground music info site

Estonia

http://www.hxc.pri.ee/ http://www.myspace.com/eestihardcore) : Estonian hardcore portal
http://punkar.pri.ee/ : discussion forum
http://www.rockiklubi.ee/ : the best DIY venue in Estonia (on the border with Latvia)

Finland

http://www.punkinfinland.net/ http://www.myspace.com/punkinfinland : Finnish punk info site
http://www.punkinfinland.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 : a gig info thread with the first message listing nearly all punk gigs around Finland
http://takku.net/calendar/ : an event calendar @ a d.i.y. media project site
http://kimppa.net/English/Default_eng.aspx : autostop/car-sharing

Helsinki

http://www.myspace.com/oranssiklubi : an old squatter organization doing punk/indie shows (no age limit, no alcohol served), people's kitchen, vegan cafe and other stuff, too, whenever they have a place
http://fireinsidemusic.com/shop/info_english.htm : a punk shop

Lahti

http://www.myspace.com/roosterpub : a hardcore/punk pub

Lappeenranta

http://www.lprhardcore.net/ : info site

Tampere

http://www.vastavirta.net/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar/venue
http://www.puntala-rock.com/ : an open air punk festival held near Tampere in July

Turku

http://www.myspace.com/tvoturku : probably the oldest d.i.y. venue in the whole country (having done shows since the 1950s), run by university students and punks
http://www.myspace.com/turkupunk : a hardcore punk festival held in May
http://www.myspace.com/palavaporkkana : a vegan people's kitchen/infoshop collective

France

http://dynamite.lautre.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=4 : Show announcements
http://www.punk-hardcore.info/ : punk hardcore, and more, in france and everywhere
http://www.theyliewedie.org/ : anarcho-punk portal
http://infokiosques.net/ : infoshops & stuff

Amiens

http://www.myspace.com/squatsaintrock : small but nice punk squat (evicted)

Angers

http://letincelle.over-blog.org/ : social center
http://troglobal.waloomaloo.com : a kind of self managed village...

Angoulème

http://marsattack16.free.fr/ : a punk bar/venue

Bordeaux

http://www.atheneelibertaire.net/ : a kinda social center. political music welcome

Bretagne/Britany

http://penkalet.info/index.htm : a kind of self managed cultural center

Caen

http://www.anartoka.com/squat/portal.php : about squats in Caen

Grenoble

http://grenoble.indymedia.org/spip.php?page=agenda/ : Indymedia Grenoble calendar telling you what's going on in the city
http://www.lustucrust.org/ : Grenoble punk info site
http://www.lustucrust.org/localautogere_presentation.html/ : an anarchist/punk infoshop
http://www.le102.net/ : an autonomous social/cultural center/venue
http://antigone.franceserv.com/ : an autonomous library/cafe/infoshop/social center

Dijon

http://www.brassicanigra.org/agenda/ : an event calendar with links to places and collectives of interest in the city
http://squat.net/tanneries/ : a huge political squat/social center, the oldest still functioning squat in France
http://malokadistro.com/ : 20-year old anarcho punk collective packing a large distro and doing a lot of concerts

Lyon

http://rebellyon.info/ : an event calendar with alternative radical political infos for Lyon
http://www.grrrndzero.org/ : two separate venues for musical and other cultural activities
http://laluttine.free.fr/ : a DIY punk infoshop open on Saturdays

Paris

http://ctx-n-flrs.zikforum.com/infos-concerts-et-albums-f3/ : Punk show forum
http://lamiroit.free.fr/ : squat with concerts in Paris

Saint Etienne

http://la.france.pue.free.fr/new/accueil.htm : booker and distro
http://www.lasourcefurieuse.org/ : punk collective
http://sainteunderground.free.fr/ : St Etienne underground forum (french only)

Robiac

http://collectif.valette.free.fr/ : Self managed village in the middle of nowhere (a big punk festival once a year)

Toulouse

http://toulouse.indymedia.org/spip.php?page=agenda : Toulouse Indymedia event calendar with links to local collectives
http://www.olibanum.org/ :a squat/social centre with concerts and other stuff
http://infokiosques.net/kioskarnaudben : an infoshop with library, internet, coffee, etc.
http://www.panx.net/ : Toulouse punk network infosite

Tours

http://lavictoireestanous.blogspot.com/ : squatted social center

Marseille

LE SEUL PROBLEME self-managed social center. 46 rue Consolat / 13001 Marseille.

du mardi au vendredi : 14h - 20h

samedi : 10h30 - 19h

dimanche : 14h - 20h

Germany

http://knox.p-u-n-k.de/db/ : Concert database

Berlin

http://stressfaktor.squat.net/ : an extensive underground guide/program calendar for berlin, with pretty much all diy concerts, people's kitchens and other activities
http://www.wasteofmind.de/berlin/berlin.php : punkrock/hardcore ezine
http://www.myspace.com/cafemorgenrot/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar that holds a famous vegan/vegetarian brunch on weekends and has a small venue in the basement
http://koepi137.net/ : a very famous and huge punk house project with bars, two venues, discos, films screenings etc.
http://www.myspace.com/scharni38/ : a punk house project with a bar and a small venue in the basement
http://squat.net/liebig34/ : a queer/anarchafeminist punk house project with a bar and a small venue
http://erinyen.blogspot.com/ : anarcha-feminist collective

All in all, just walk around in Friedrichshain, especially down Rigaerstraße, and you'll come across plenty of old squats/house projects with bars and venues and all kinds of political activities.

Flensburg

http://www.hafermarktflensburg.de/ : punk rock's house !!

Hamburg

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/bewegungsmelder/index2.htm : Shows, parties, politics

Kiel

http://www.altemeierei.de/tiki-start.php : hausprojekt with cofee and venue since 1983

Lübeck

http://www.walli-bleibt.de/ : wagen burg with coffee, bar an venue

Greece

http://athens.indymedia.org/ : Indimedia is the main way of communication for punks and anarchists in greece
http://athens.indymedia.org/calendar/ : just the calendar (google translate may help)

Athens

http://villa-amalias.blogspot.com/ : Villa amalias squat
http://pat61.wordpress.com/ : Skaramaga squat

kavala

http://accionmutantecollective.blogspot.com/ : punk collective
http://anarxikoikavalas.blogspot.com/ : anarchist infos

Thessaloniki

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=303376777 : Street Attack, a punk squat
http://delta.squat.gr/ : a huge squatted hostel
http://www.yfanet.net/ : one of the hugest squat in Europe !! with among different things a DIY BMX park
a good way to meet punks an other "alternative" people in Thessaloniki is to go at the place called "Rotode" is a famous youth gathering where police is not welcome
there are also a few squatted venues inside the university: Steki Sto Biologiko...

Volos

http://matsaggou.blogspot.com/ : Matsaggou squat (former cigarette factory)

Hungary

http://www.socialdisease.tk/ : anarchist punk collective
http://www.myspace.com/dreamlongdeadbooking : booking/shows

Italy

Milan

http://milano.tonight.eu/locali/centri_sociali : Alternative venues in Milan

Torino

http://www.tuttosquat.net/
http://www.radioblackout.org/ : anarchist radio

Latvia

http://pretspars.hardcore.lt/ : zine, distro, action

Kuldiga

http://www.nekac.lv/web-content/index.html : d.i.y. center with shows and stuff

Lithuania

Vilnius

http://www.hardcore.lt/
http://www.myspace.com/XI20 : booking/shows

Macedonia

http://www.teror13.anarhija.org/

Netherlands

http://www.punx.nl/ - Punk listings
http://radar.squat.net/ - Squat listings

Amsterdam

http://www.xs4all.nl/~binnenpr/ : Binnenpret - Cultureel complex in Amsterdam-Zuid
http://ot301.nl/ : Overtoom301
http://swomp.wordpress.com/ : Freestate SWOMP
http://www.vrankrijk.org/ : Vrankrijk, queer squat

Den Haag

http://www.everyoneweb.com/presentation_tier/Index.aspx?WebID=piratenbar&BoomID=B1&KnooppuntID=K486&KnoopOpen=True : Pirate social center in Scheveningen

Leiden

http://koppenhinksteeg.nl/ : Koppenhinksteeg - Bar, cafe, freeshop, offices, venue
http://www.multipleks.org/ : Multipleks - Freespace

Rotterdam

http://www.poortgebouw.nl/ : Poortgebouw - Cafe, gigs, living group
http://www.wormweb.nl/ : Worm - Alternative music venue

Utrecht

http://www.acu.nl/ : ACU - politiek cultureel centrum

Norway

Oslo

http://www.blitz.no/ : an old squat with political activities, vegan/vegetarian cafe and punk shows

Poland

Biała Podlaska

http://zakazny.110mb.com/ : squatted venue in Biała Podlaska

Częstochowa

http://elektromadonna.bzzz.net/ : old nice squat in a boring town

Gliwice

http://www.krzyk.gliwice.com/ : squat in Gliwice

Lublin

http://tektura.wordpress.com/ : DIY cultural center in Lublin

Łódź

http://www.myspace.com/falodz http://www.czsz.bzzz.net/czarny/ : anarchist site with news, calendar etc.
http://www.myspace.com/vlodz http://k50squat.blogspot.com/ : squat with concerts etc.

Poznan

http://www.rozbrat.org/ : the oldest squat in Poland, with concerts and more...

Toruń

http://www.pilon.pl/ harcore punk anarcho cafe bar

Warsawa

http://infotrouble.blogspot.com/ : independent newsletter of warsaw
http://www.elba.bzzz.net/ : The only squat/punk social center in warszawa
http://www.u-f-a.pl/ : nice place, nice people, some concerts and other "punk" activities
http://cykloza.waw.pl/ : a vegan bikepunk cafe just in the centre of warsaw
http://www.myspace.com/nocwalpurgii : queer feminist hc/punk festival

Wrocław

http://crk-wro.info/ : legal squat in Wrocław

Romania

http://www.aro.ecobytes.net/lovekills/ : anarcho-feminist collective
http://www.myspace.com/thrashsilvania : political hc/punk collective doing shows & stuff

Bucharest

http://www.myspace.com/riotseeddistro : distro

Russia

http://pv.anho.org/forum/index.php
http://www.go-punk.ru/site_news.php
http://www.punk.ru/
http://russia.indymedia.org/
http://squat.anho.org/ : squatting info
http://www.avtonom.org/ : autonomous action

Moscow

http://www.myspace.com/interpretation_zine
http://edavmestobomb.narod.ru/ : Food Not Bombs

Samara

http://www.duplo.narod.ru/ - cultural center & alternative movie club

St. Petersburg

http://svinokop.narod.ru/

Serbia

Belgrade

http://www.kontra-punkt.info/
http://eng.queerbeograd.org/ : anarchist queers

Slovenia

http://www.ljudmila.org/anarhiv/

Spain

Bilbao

http://www.bilbaorockcity.com/ : all rock concerts in Basque Country including underground shows
http://www.kukutza.net/ : biggest skuat in Bilbao
http://www.blogari.net/itzubaltzeta : other skuat/social center

Barcelona

http://usurpa.squat.net/index.html

Sweden

Luleå

Malmö

http://www.myspace.com/malmopunkandhardcorecrew

Stockholm

http://www.stockholmhardcore.com/home.html
http://www.myspace.com/klubbgrazonen : a hc/punk collective doing shows in Fullersta (an anarchist house located in a Stockholm suburb)
http://www.myspace.com/279659016 : a queer feminist bookstore carrying also zines, underground comics, curiosities and whatnot, occasionally having film screenings and other cool stuff, too

Umeå

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207371356

Uppsala

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=319530594

Switzerland

Lausanne

http://kadterschmiede.squat.net/espaceautogere/ : bar, gigs, infoshop etc. in a squat

Turkey

Istanbul

http://www.noizine.net/ : Turkish DIY Punk/Hardcore/Noize Community

Ukraine

http://infoshop.zaraz.org/

United Kingdom

Brighton

http://www.brightonzinefest.co.uk/ : Brighton zinefest - Also organise monthly zine socials
http://cowleyclub.org.uk/ : Cowley Club - A collectively run libertarian social centre. 12 London Road
http://cranks.org.uk/ : Cranks - A DIY bicycle workshop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/props_edgeworld.shtml : Edgeworld - Independent record shop
http://www.infinityfoodsretail.co.uk/ : Infinity - Centrally located organic wholefoods shop run by workers' co-op
http://www.myspace.com/punkerbunker : Punker Bunker - A punk record shop and gig organizor. 34 Sydney St. North Laines
http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/ : Resource Centre - Cheap equipment and printing etc
http://www.myspace.com/tattyseasidetown : Tatty Seaside Town - Organizes gigs
http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/ : Titnore Woods Protest Site

Bristol

http://comutiny.wordpress.com/ : Bristol Co- Mutiny

London

http://www.56a.org.uk/ : 56a - A radical social centre since 1991
http://www.eroding.org.uk/ : Eroding Empire - punk/anarchy listings for London
http://infousurpa.co.nr/ : London Infousurpa
http://londonscn.wordpress.com/ : London social centres network
http://www.myspace.com/queermutinylondon : Queer Mutiny - anarchist queers
http://therampart.wordpress.com/ : Rampart social centre

Manchester

http://www.myspace.com/fungalpunk : FungalPunk - diy punk gigs
http://www.myspace.com/slitrecords : Slit Promotions - Ska/ punk / hardcore gigs
http://www.myspace.com/gashcollective : Gash Collective - Underground DIY punk gigs/parties/raves
http://www.myspace.com/sayittomyface : Say it to my face - punk/grindcore/hardcore gigs
http://www.myspace.com/anarchisticundertones : Anarchistic Undertones - DIY punk/ska/harcore
http://www.myspace.com/manchesterpunx : Manchester Punx
http://www.myspace.com/mutinymanchester : Mutiny Manchester - Hardcore/Metal/Punk gigs
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385514487 : Punk gigs in Manchester Facebook
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703395004 : No particular Promotions ( gamberro )

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