2026-02-10
Hey Freaks!
No funny words today as we’re way late already. But there’s time for a few thoughts: – a friend asked me if we kind of screen the events, more specifically the parties, since one hears of quite a few toxic spaces in Vienna. For now, we certainly don’t have the resources to offer that, and we don’t know all the collectives that we promote here, so be aware… but it’s certainly a good idea to put a bit more work into that, I could imagine introducing a symbol that stands for, e.g., „has awareness team and we can vouch for their efforts from personal experience“, or something like that. As always, your ideas and your intel are all very welcome! – A variation on the good old „please help us“ theme: this time around it was specifically noticeable how many gigs there are (we’ve got 80-ish listed, and that ignores of rock, jazz and club stuff, let alone classical, and surely leaving out many diaspora communities‘ cultural life in Vienna too) and how little I have to say about them. I’m certainly willing to continue in this fashion for another while, I feel like it still is a valuable offer for a certain niche and that’s possibly enough, but I would love to have it a bit more curated, to have more gigs that we can promote out of specific love or at least excitement for an act. So if you wanna contribute in any way, do hit me up! Also, just telling your friends who might wanna subscribe about the newsletter is great help as well – the more people, the more motivating it is to write this, and the more potential contributors as well 🙂
kisses from krems!
1 May (Thu)
Spumante Records Showcase: Andrejo + Partner
Flucc ✅
1020
FREE
Fast+Nice labour day party: Thao + Flauxpas + DJ Terror
Flucc ✅
1020
5-8€
2 May (Fri)
Güner Künier + Egg Idiot + Sniffin’ Glue
Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1160
15-20€
gibba + Ghosttown + sugar slip
Rhiz ♿️
1080
10€ AK
“dubstep, trancy technoïd groovers, snare heavy bass music and immersive psychedelic techno”, with the rhiz soundsystem specifically adjusted for the night
House of Ludic: Peter Staud + Schminz + Malounadou + LuiV + Fabian Hofer + Fehr Brothers
Flucc ✅
1020
10€ AK
“A night that starts in disco and ends in techno with all the right turns in between. One floor, no distractions, and a refined soundsystem”
Gesindel der Nacht pres. Heartcore: bludhound + engelscore + distorder.909 + janexdk
Flucc ✅
1020
15€VVK
Tomášková & Gordoa (Vernissage Marit Wolters)
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7 reduced
Cello, Snare Drums, Electronics
Dä Shlyda Däng + Generator
Chelsea ⏳
1080
VVK15€/AK18€
“Weinviertel’s Finest”
Café Mondo: Binderos + Franco + Paul Heimlich + Rambazambra
Celeste ⏳
1050
8€<23:00>12€
“space for disco, afro, latin and beyond”
Igor Gross
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
FREE - Entry 30’ before gig
performing percussion works
3 May (Sat)
Six-Score + Canine + Absent from the Morning Headcount
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can (free entry for under18s)
grindcore, hardcore, emoviolence from AT+DE
Kurpark + Dreimalumalpha
Rhiz ♿️
1080
15€VVK
“atmosphärische und tanzbare Musik für dunkle Spaziergänge im Speckgürtel”
Turntablista Graduates Party: Larissa Delonge + eLe + Sabina + Cataleya
Rhiz ♿️
1080
FREE
programming graduates from Austrias first all-women DJ school
Pink Mayhem: bludhounr b2b lilmangojuice + who is ela + sunny + mel + kristus
Flucc ✅
1020
8,50-13€
Jeremy Young
Vekks ☑️
1120
donation from 7€
tape experimenter !
[Struma + Iodine Showcase Brno: Rent + Sturmherta + Kazpa + Mʊdʌki + Michael Dose + S.verin + Feelx + Inou Ki Endo
Fraktal, Brno](https://strumandiodine.com/event/si-showcase-brno/)
Fraktal ⏳
???€ but their events tend to have a fair price
Vienna and Czech experimental/electronic promoters collide! Also see 8 May
Rhinoplasty
Das LOT ✅
1100
FREE
Mamma Mia!! Italian Brainrot Special 🥵
Technolot x Fette Feten:
Das LOT ✅
[via schalltaucherin] Kashu & Lukas König + Jansky + Libramar
Zur Legende ⏳
1020
???€ but collecting donations for Augustin
[via schalltaucherin] incubator: Hochwald
Kulturcafe Max ⏳
1170
10-30€
[via schalltaucherin] fluestern
Westbahnstudios ⏳
1150
???€
“Doom Pop”
[via schalltaucherin] Clemens Sainitzer + Christian Reiner
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
pay as you wish
Donaufestival: Sega Bodega + Nídia + FIFTH + F.S.K. + Aya x MFO + Mara W Horn + Richie Culver
Multiple venues (Krems) ✅
50€ (look for reduction conditions)
plus performances, exhibitions, films… while Donaufestival sometimes feels a bit casual for me (quite short sets in somewhat random spaces, and a crowd that sometimes feels more “interested” than “into it”, it’s generally one of the best things I know in Austria, the lineup in crazy this year again - this night featuring club legends from all over the world, amongst others. Also see May 4, 9, 10, 11
4 May (Sun)
Gear + Exterminating Angel + Compete + Fosgene
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
Hardcore
Sonntag’sdisco w/ Iv/An live
Flucc ✅
1020
10€
Don’t ask too many questions, just show up! w/ “dystopian soul” live act
Donaufestival: Mala Herba + Rachika Nayar&Nina Keith + Shabaka
Multiple venues (Krems) ✅
40€ (look for reduction conditions)
5 May (Mon)
Monday Improv Session: Judith Ferst + Mark Holub
Celeste ⏳
1050
FREE
double bass + drums free music
Sophia Djebel Rose + Eric Arn
Vekks ☑️
1120
donation from 7€
one of the very few acts I did some test-listening for this time - magical, dark, alluring Franco-Maroccan songs. Hope I’ll go
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Arena ☑️
1030
50€
6 May (Tue)
Enigmatic Serenades: VÍZ, Racine, Nadeshda
Flucc ✅
1020
10€VVK/15€AK
experimental series I wanna finally go there
Workshops: Noisy Constructions
Das LOT ✅
1100
FREE - reservation needed
not a gig but it sounds sick!!
Ride + Like Elephants
WUK ☑️
1090
46€ :(
shoegaze pioneers
No More Waiting + Slight of Life
EKH ⏳
1100
probs pay as you can
hardcore, metal
7 May (Wed)
Mekongg + Half Darling
Rhiz ♿️
1080
???€
Hippie Death Cult + Omega Sun
Arena ☑️
1030
VVK19€/AK tba
Fejká (live)
Flucc ✅
1020
25€VVK
Mivos Quartett + Eva Reiter & Tom Pauwels
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7 reduced
mostly contemporary compositions being played but also Marais
[via schalltaucherin] alle Lust feat. other:M:other
Theater am Werk Kabelwerk ♿️
1120
24€ / about 14 reduced
also on May 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, I’ll list it only this once tho, since it’s not in the center of this newsletter’s focus
8 May (Thu)
Robbie Thunder + Hyperdog + Bicycle Teeth
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
garage punk, post punk
phonon~ x Struma+Iodine: mʊdʌki + STURMHERTA + Daphne von Schrader + Inou Ki Endo
Rhiz ♿️
1080
tickets tba
Vienna and Czech experimental/electronic promoters collide - this time on our home turf
Vendredi Sur Mer
Flucc ✅
1020
30€VVK
“new brand of French-language pop” …
Nava Hemyari + Band, Evgeny Ignashev
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
FREE - Entry 30’ before gig
Signale: Vereter + Laut Fragen + Zum Scheitern Verurteilt + Meshes To Meshes (DJ) + Power (DJ)
Flex ☑️
1010
???€ - just AK, Money goes to Queerbase
anti-fascist cultural collective putting on quite diverse local lineup
[via schalltaucherin] free music forum: carla boregas & mauricio takara
Celeste ⏳
1050
15€/10 if you need it
synth + drums free improv
[via schalltaucherin] Helene Glüxam
Studio Eberhard ⏳
1030
???€
modern cello
[via schalltaucherin] Herbert Lacina + Alexander Babikov
Kunstraum Ewigkeitsgasse ⏳
1170
???€
12string bass + e-guitar improv
9 May (Fri)
Nekrodeus + Phantom Pain Dogma + Bumshelter
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can (free entry for under18s)
metal (black, death, crust, doom support) from Graz and Vienna
15y of Upd8e: Zero T + Fry + Mike:l + M.Monsta + Raensky + Silent Wolf + Tomsen
Rhiz ♿️
1080
13€
dnb and jungle night’s birthday bash
Suena Festival: “Erinnerungsspuren - Geometrie der Musik” (Daniel Dundus + Maria Iaiza + Jun Nakamura + Maurizio de Luca
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7 reduced
festival for contemp. iberoamerican music
Donaufestival: Stefan Fraunberger + Nadah el Shazly + Use Knife + Demdike Stare + O. + Spiritualized + Kabeaushé
Multiple venues (Krems) ✅
1180
50€ (look for reduction conditions)
10 May (Sat)
Hypertrash w/ Extasya + Glitch Katza + Dark Spherez + DJ Hypersleep + DJ Ket + DJ Pazitka + Esti.D + Hapuk + Krawallbarie + Neonkotze + Peter Puenktlich + Poison Ivy
Club Titanic 📶
1060
10€
Cemented Minds + Swelle + Ghost Ambulance
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
bands from austrian midwestern emo-adjacent scenes
Cassia
Flucc ✅
1020
25€
Luv Affair w/ Sound Bloomers: Secco + Achimski + Luci Jacuzzi + Lim Banda + Gledd + Des Champs + Ben Born
Flucc ✅
1020
10€AK
Drunk at your wedding + Pynzenyk/Rosilio/Duit + Rovar17
Vekks ☑️
1120
donation from 7€
Berlin rough Indie/Folk songwriter, support from free improv trio and audio collage project about imagined evil insects
sKiYYa and the Dream Machine + SquarEars
Das LOT ✅
1100
12€VVK/15€AK
üsychedelic + “chamber jazz” hop-hop (and it’s not even just dudes)
ThiccPhatUtopias: Xing + Foncé + Barbara Buch + Performers
WUK ☑️
1090
14-22€
[via schalltaucherin] susanne brokesch + ghostpoet
Chateau Rouge ⏳
1130
???€
Donaufestival: Shovel Dance Collective + Ernst Lima + Tristwch Y Fenywod + Circuit des Yeux + Giulio Erasmus and the End of the Worm + Lankum + Yellow Swans + HHY & the Macumbas
Multiple venues (Krems) ✅
50€ (look for reduction conditions)
Your attendance this day is a matter of solidarity with the causes this newsletter is trying to put forward and/or your love for experimental/heavy interpretations of folk traditions (those two things being basically the same)
11 May (Sun)
Shonen Knife
Chelsea ⏳
1080
VVK25€/AK28€
legendary Japanese pop-punk “girl-group”, influences to bands like Sonic Youth and Nirvana
Donaufestival: Jeff Mills feat. Jean Phi-Dary and Prabhu Edouard + Colin Self + Moor Mother & Lonnie Holley
Multiple venues (Krems) ✅
40€ (look for reduction conditions)
… and your attendance this day is just a question of good sense. (and of money and time and your priorities in life I knowwww, I’m just saying wtf??)
12 May (Mon)
The Devil and the Almighty Blues + Skyjoggers
Arena ☑️
1030
VVK24€/AK tba
Monday Improv Session: Federico Isasti + Wolfgang Dangl
Celeste ⏳
1050
FREE
drums + piano free music
Catt
WUK ☑️
1090
30€
[via schalltaucherin] duo defant + dillier
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
pay as you wish
13 May (Tue)
Zweilaster
Rhiz ♿️
1080
8€VVK/10€AK
“Flat Wave/Minimal Punk/Garage”
[via schalltaucherin] Efrén López, Sofia Labropoulou, Sakina Teyna
Sargfabrik ✅
1140
29€/20€ under 27
Oud, Kanun, Voice
Alice Phoebe Lou
Arena ☑️
1030
42€
14 May (Wed)
Synesthetic Wednesday: Jespter Zeuthen + Jesper Nordberg + Marko Jelača | Franz Hautzinger + Daniele Camarda + Michael Prowaznik
Rhiz ♿️
1080
donation from 5€
free jazz?
O.R.k.
Arena ☑️
1030
25€VVK/AK tba
bringing together members/veterans of King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, other bands I don’t know
15 May (Thu)
Joliette + Punknelke
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
Die Heiterkeit
B72 ⏳
1080
31€
Crack Ignaz & Friends
Flucc ✅
1020
25€VVK
Acousmonium: Patrick K.-H. · Lin-Ni Liao · Matthias Makovsky · Pierre Schaeffer · Qingqing Teng · Daniel Teruggi · Brane Zorman
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7 reduced - also 3-day ticket for €24/18
festival for “multichannel electroacoustic music”, also on May 16 and 17
Sandra Hesch
Flex ☑️
1010
33€
tiktok girls’ girl? I left most flex dates by the wayside but my bias against this felt most unfair potentially, so here you go :)
[via schalltaucherin] Impro4 (Johannes Fritz + Eliah Antoine Ebner + Noé Schüttler + Gero von Randow)
Kulturcafe Max ⏳
1170
Free/Donation?
[via schalltaucherin] Tape Moon
Kulturcafe Max ⏳
1170
Free/Donation?
Psych Pop w/ Ambient elements
16 May (Fri)
Tender Matter listening Session: Snake Boots record release
Westbahnstudios ⏳
1150
???€
Popular Music
Rhiz ♿️
1080
VVK18€/AK20€
Liccht shows are almost always worth it in my experience!
Acousmonium: Franco Degrassi · Tetiana Khoroshun · Anastasia Koroleva · Rainer Kremser · Veronika Mayer · Vicenzo Procino · Pierre Schaeffer · Daniel Teruggi
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7 reduced - also 3-day ticket for €24/18
see 15 May
quinTTTonic
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
FREE - Entry 30’ before gig
Prebladudem
Vekks ☑️
1120
donation from 7€
improv punk?
Cybertribe & Mahlwerk pres.: Pegassi + Avo2x + DJ Backstage + Enja + Goldi + Kat Ze + Maro + Max Wagner + Sue
Flex ☑️
1010
16,80€
[via schalltaucherin] WOW Signal Festival: Agar Agar | Angelicá Castelló & Gabriela Gordillo & Masha Kuzyk | Jakob Schauer & MONOCOLOR | Franz Hautzinger & Oleg Soulimenko | Hagai Izenberg & Strobo Robo | Rope Rebels | Monza Blitz & Maartje Pasman & Hagai Izenberg | Sturmherta | Sandkasten Syndikat
Semmelweisklinik ⏳
1180
???€
Also on 17 May - yet unclear which act is when! focus on multi-channel audio, walk-in installations, “performative formats”
17 May (Sat)
Augend&Addend: Nova Varnrable + Kampan + yynona
Rhiz ♿️
1080
10-12€
DJ Marcelle & ynnona
Rhiz ♿️
1080
13€VVK/15€AK
Legendary dutch three-turntable DJ, supported by kinda rare? (not on this night lol) set by local hero
Acousmonium: Armando Balice · Joan Bagès í Rubi · Sophie Delafontaine · Patrick K.-H. · Tetiana Khoroshun · Pierre Schaeffer · Vinzenz Schwab · petites formes 2025
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7 reduced – also 3-day ticket for €24/18
see 15 May