Yes!!! Please do! :) I love seeing new uploads and listening to what people are making

There is not! All genres or lack thereof are welcome. We do however strongly encourage experimentation and wild, weird stuff

Cybergrunge is to cyberpunk what grunge was to punk. A loosely-defined, spontaneously-emerging set of attitudes & influences that doesn't mean any one thing in particular. A lot of people have been doing cybergrunge for many years. It is a strain of digital folk/outsider art.

That's like... your opinion.... idunno what to tell you.

This site is operated under the umbrella of CGRU, which is Fiscally Sponsored by OpenCollective Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3). We do not and will never paywall the website, and rely completely on donations and self-funding. We do not and will NEVER change how we operate based on donor requests or funding. Art, music, access to information and free expression are human rights that should not be run as a business.

HOWEVER, since many artists struggle to get by, we do offer small "grants" to artists through CGRU, we offer comissions for albums when possible. So long as we live in a world where the means of subsistence require one to work for cash, people working in Art, Music, and information spaces deserve to get paid for their work.

The site originally featured just my music and art, but I felt icky making some kind of professional "portfolio" website. I also just want people to have nice, free alternatives to things like Bandcamp and Soundcloud and Spotify, etc. so the motivation is just to give folks a cool alternative and a way to meet and discover stuff they normally wouldn't.

That isn't the point! In fact, we encourage people to check out the source code for this website and clone the site, modify it, host your own cybergrunge.net! The point isn't to replace huge, centralized monopolies, it is to show the value of having a diversity of independent platforms.

Kind of. I grew up listening to obscure music on random netlabels on archive.org and soulseek and stuff like that. I guess you could call it a netlabel, i just think of it as a platform for people to share their art.

The website is run mainly by Elucidated, but there is a lot of help and input from other friends who help with coding. It is primarily coded with php. Some people hate php, i think it is cute and fun.

What is considered "good" or "high quality" is completely subjective. I personally listen to cybergrunge.net radio quite a lot and enjoy just about everything that gets played. It is a very minor inconvenience that some tracks are a lot louder than others or really different in style/tone. idk... Please just chill and try to enjoy people's art.

Copyright and IP are not my speciality. I personally encourage people to license their music as Public Domain Works or under a creative commons license, but it is probably safe to assume that unless mentioned elsewhere explicitly, works are copyright of the artist that uploaded them. We will have better ways later on to require artists to choose a license for their uploads.

The violent repression of anti-capitalists is something we oppose. Censorship and repression is used primarily against Leftists. Right-wingers or centrists whine about it and pretend to be victims, but the State is always and has always been an arm of Capital that exists to protect those with property and wealth. From MKULTRA to COINTELPRO, through funding of anti-communist groups at home and abroad, spying on, harassing and even outright murdering civil rights leaders, supporting coups and right-wing dictators in Central America and elsewhere, the "Deep State" has a long history of targeting Leftists with violent repression.

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