Punk rock, hardcore and DIY culture — since 2001
Men Va Fan! started in Stockholm in 2001 as a homemade corner of the web for punk rock, anarchist zines, MP3s, football and Linux. The original crew went quiet years ago. We picked the domain back up to keep writing about the music and the culture that made it. About →
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Music
Bands, records, scenes and the history of punk, hardcore, crust and everything noisy in between.
Punk Library
Books, zines and writing about punk — reviews, reading lists and print history.
Punk Stuff
DIY culture, flyers, fashion, squats, venues and the odd things punk leaves behind.
Football
Terrace culture, working-class football and the sport that gave us Oi!.
Pirates
Pirate culture through a punk lens: sea shanties, folk-punk and the Jolly Roger.
Geek
Where punk meets computers: free software, DIY tech and internet subcultures.
Latest
The Pirate Bay and Sweden's Piracy Movement
How Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay, the 2006 raid and the 2009 trial turned Sweden into a battleground over file sharing and sparked the Pirate Party.
American Hardcore: A Tribal History and the 2006 film
Steven Blush's 2001 book and the 2006 documentary map US hardcore 1980–1986. What they get right, and the scenes and people critics say they miss.
Anti-fascist football fan groups: St. Pauli, Celtic, Rayo, AEK
A guide to anti-fascist football fan groups: St. Pauli, Celtic's Green Brigade, Rayo Vallecano's Bukaneros, AEK's Original 21, and Football Against Racism…
How to Scan and Archive Zines and Flyers
A practical guide to scanning zines and flyers: resolution, file formats, OCR, metadata, and uploading to the Internet Archive. Keep your punk ephemera alive.
Bandcamp for DIY bands and labels: a practical guide
How DIY punk bands and labels can use Bandcamp: setting up, pricing, Bandcamp Fridays, physical merch, and alternatives when you need them.
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.
Black Flag's Damaged: Rollins, SST and Hardcore's Breakthrough
How Black Flag's 1981 album Damaged, with Henry Rollins on vocals, defined American hardcore and set the template for DIY punk.
Casual culture: terrace fashion from the late 1970s
How Fila, Sergio Tacchini and Stone Island became terrace staples, and where casuals overlapped and clashed with punk and skinheads in late-70s Britain.
Celtic FC, Irish Folk Punk and the Terrace Songs
How Irish folk punk from The Pogues to Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly connects with Celtic FC fan culture and the songs sung on the terraces.
Conflict: south London anarcho-punk and the long argument
Conflict came out of early-80s Eltham with a harder, angrier take on anarcho-punk. A look at their records, animal-rights politics and why they still matter.
Crass, Dial House and the birth of anarcho-punk
How Crass built anarcho-punk from Dial House in Essex: their own label, Gee Vaucher's stencilled art, and the bands who followed their lead.
Crust Punk: Amebix, Antisect and the Noise That Wouldn't Die
How Amebix, Antisect, Doom and Hellbastard spawned crust punk – its politics, its look, and its messy split from grindcore.
What d-beat is: from Discharge to Swedish käng
A plain guide to the d-beat drum pattern, Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, and how Swedish bands turned it into käng.
Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: Satire, Label and San Francisco Punk
How Dead Kennedys' 1980 debut Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Jello Biafra's satire and Alternative Tentacles defined San Francisco punk.
Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing: The Album That Defined D-beat
Released in 1982, Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing fused nuclear-war fury with Cal's barked vocals and Bones' guitar wall, shaping crust…
Diskonto: Swedish Hardcore and the Käng Scene
Diskonto, the Swedish hardcore band from the 1990s: their sound, their records and their place in the käng scene.
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.
Swedish Punk's First Wave: Ebba Grön, KSMB and the Suburbs
How Swedish punk broke out of Stockholm's inner city between 1977 and 1983, from Ebba Grön and KSMB to Rude Kids and the suburbs of Rågsved.