For the love of the DeKalb punk rock music scene, stick around this weekend.

Local musicians have collaborated on a compilation album, DeKalb Brawl City, which will be available at the release show 5 p.m. Sunday at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway.

Several bands on the compilation will play at the release, including The Stockyards, Minimum Wage Assassins, “Richardson” Richardson, Hasta Lumbago and Davey Dynamite. Michigan-based Inflatable Best Friend will also play. The cost of the show is $5, and the compilation CD is $3.

The compilation was created by Don’t Panic, It’s a Distro, an organization dedicated to making local music accessible. Danny Collins, NIU alumni and vocalist/bassist for DeKalb band The Stockyards, said the idea for Don’t Panic, It’s a Distro came at the beginning of the summer, when his band was on tour with Davey Dynamite, a.k.a. Dave Anians, senior community leadership and civic engagement major.

“We wanted to get some local DeKalb bands out to other cities,” Collins said. “And I wanted to be able to have some sort of label in the back of it that people could contact, something to make it seem legit. Places like record stores won’t take you seriously unless you have a label backing you.”

Collins said the purpose of Don’t Panic, It’s a Distro is not to sign bands or act as a record label, but to get music out to the community.

When initially putting the compilation together, Collins said he contacted as many people as he knew in local bands, and the word spread from there.

“I always thought in the back of my mind, ‘Someone should do this,’” Collins said. “At the time, I had a list of contacts, I wasn’t working and I was out of school, so it made sense for me to do it.”

Putting the compilation together served as an opportunity for members of the DeKalb music scene to get back together.

“We would play a lot of shows while we were at Northern, and it was a tight-knit community,” said Stephen DeFalco, Turbo Vamps! vocalist and NIU alumni. DeFalco and his bandmates have moved to Chicago but were invited by Collins to contribute to the compilation.

“It was really awesome that he thought of us for it,” DeFalco said. “I’ve never felt more at home than [when] playing a show or living in DeKalb.”

The process of putting together DeKalb Brawl City was a community effort, and many of the members of the bands on the track list contributed money, time and knowledge to make the compilation a reality, Collins said.

“I guess I really like this thing because it shows how far we’ve come as a collective of artists,” Anians said. “When I first got to DeKalb, I was just becoming a part of it, and a lot of my best friends are still a part of it even if they’ve graduated.”

The next project Don’t Panic, It’s a Distro will release is a poetry split featuring four DeKalb poets, Collins said.