1-14 February
the year grinds on and we hope that everyone can find some joy in music and can maybe even get some bonus joy through this newsletter ❤ take care of yourselves and each other!
Just Announced
3 May (Sun)
Shearling
Venster99 ♿️
1090
tba
noise rock I guess? including members of the recently-broken-up Sprain. I never made it through their one-hour-one-track onslaught of a debut album but god am I going to this show if I can muster the strength of heart. Just click play and see if u feel the same
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1 February (Sun)
Aircraft + Die Anteile + Gunship Collider
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you wish
shoegazey darkwave project from kyiv paired with electro pop duo from berlin and local support
Impro Night with Li Chin Li + Chloé Ryo + September Mader + Maryam Farhang + queue-t
Bootleg 📶
1080
free?
experimental improvements music with sheng, trombone, cello and voice. two live concerts followed by a dj set
Sonntag’ sdisco with Laundromat Chicks + Drehli Robnik
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
10-15€
cute local alt rock and funny dj
2 February (Mon)
Youth Code + King Yosef + Streets Sects
Arena ☑️
1030
31€ presale / 34€ doors
“industrial music infused with hardcore angst”
4 February (Wed)
Federico Pozzer: TRANSCRIPTIONS OF MY PIANO STUDENTS’ PLAYING
Vekks ☑️
1120
pay as you can/want
Pozzer plays transcriptions of recordings of his piano students attempting to interpret famous pieces. sounds whimsical and fun
ROMES + Manic Days
Arena ☑️
1030
25€presale / 28€ doors
electrorock band, last album called Sonic Trash, idk it sounds fun and intense if possibly… trashy
5 February (Thu)
Kim Dracula
Flex ☑️
1010
€ 40
i can’t gage Kim Dracula, which i generally consider a good thing, but you’ll have to decide for yourself it’s interesting enough for € 40
Vojdi + Lilac Vegetal + VENT!L
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you wish
math and noise rock function featuring Vojdi from czech republic that will serve art rock intensity with prog and shoegaze elements
6 February (Fri)
Kæry Ann
Arena ☑️
1030
18€ pre / doors tba.
doom/dark folk/stoner rock, beautiful sound on recording
Duo Ardea: Got Lost / Travelling Through Soundscapes
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
they’re doing a pretty beautiful Lachenmann
Zagušljivi Dim + Ausländer
Arena Beisl 📶
1030
free
croatian post rock trio from čakovec and viennese experimental anti-art punk group
7 February (Sat)
Life Aquatic Quartett
Vekks ☑️
1120
pay as you can/want
The compositions of the quartet vary between different genres and music forms. contemporary jazz, free improvisation and chamber music interweave with influences from the indie rock and alternative scene; https://smartlinks.artistcamp.com/9008798604197
Sold Out: Anna von Hausswolff
WUK ☑️
1090
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Ufo Club
Cafe Derwisch 📶
1160
free before 11 PM / 8€ afterwards
1960s/1970s psych/krautrock, soul, funk and pop DJ sets with analogue visuals; expect wholesome obscure hippy vibes
Laikka + Enesi M. + more tba
Otto Wagner Areal Pavillon 21 ⏳
1140
“genre-fluid post-pop” and support by ex-Vienna’s latinx/metal queen
Plastika + Exception + Harsh Response
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you wish?
angry hardcore blast-off from zagreb with support from linz and vienna
8 February (Sun)
Jošt Drašler & Cene Resnik & Eric Arn & Vid Drašler | Bneleti (Ben Wheeler)
Vekks ☑️
1120
pay as you can/want
The evening features a free improvisational quartet from slovenia (3/4) and vienna (1/4) (seems to be very much on the experimental improv side) as well as Bneleti a project inspired by black metal, drone as well as Azerbaijani traditional music and Georgian polyphony
knopfwissen 5 - morgan evans-weiler & jpa falzone | marie vermont & the concept horse (IEOGM)
koje ⏳
1170
?
begins at 20:00; contemporary classical, electronic, analog, noise, some times haunting, always beautiful
[via schalltaucherin] koeniglollipop + jordina millá
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
20€ presale / pay-as-you-wish stream
’= Lukas Koenig & Leopold Riegler, formerly known as koenigleopold, doing new stuff, dropping album called Pantheism at Praterstern
Fine + Pink Must
Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
25€
really interesting singer-songwriters from copenhagen and new york, respectively, that combine cute guitar singer-songwriter vibes with glitches and dissonant layers, ffo astrid sonne and claire rousay
9 February (Mon)
MusikarbeiterInnenkapelle: Die kleine Veronika
Reaktor ✅
1170
€ 15
new original score for an austrian silent movie from 1929
10 February (Tue)
Cosmic Ear ‘For Don Cherry’s 90th Anniversary’
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25
new spiritual jazz ensemble (that released a great record on We Jazz last year!) is playing compositions by one of the definitive jazz GOATs and more
Maria Iskariot
Rhiz ♿️
1080
€16
belgian all female punk band that sings (screams) in dutch
11 February (Wed)
Igorrr
Gasometer ✅
1030
€50
Breakbeats+metal+baroque+fantasy language opera
12 February (Thu)
Napalm Death + Whiplash + Carukers + Dopelord + Urban Misery
Arena ☑️
1030
38,50 presale
grindcore Urgestein + support by three and a half more genders of heavy music (Thrash / Punk / Doom / Hardcore Punk)
[via klingt.org] massiv unsichtbar
Luftschutzbunker Schönbornpark 📶
1080
free
bunker w/ sound installation, last chance
13 February (Fri)
Circuit Fantôme S5 Ep1: Ludger Brümmer
Vronihof ⏳
1170
pay as you wish
octophonic listening session from 18:00-22:00; Ludger Brümmer is currently Professor for Composition with Digital Media and directed the Hertz Lab, former Institute for Music and Acoustic at the ZKM Karlsruhe between April 2003 and March 2023; seems like cool electronic music
Music After Nature Day 1
SOHO Studios ⏳
1160
10/15/20 € Pay as you wish
Doors 19:00; Beginn 19:30; A festival dedicated to contemporary music, performance and posthuman discourse. Contemporary + baroque/renaissance music
Nürnberg + Snout Fever
Chelsea ⏳
1080
20€ pre / 23€ doors
Belarusian post-punk + local support
Wildhunt + Küenring + Diamond Falcon
Arena ☑️
1030
23,50 pre / 27€ doors
classic-leaning heavy metal from Austria
Shekib Rasa & Fayar Mohammadi + Kolo Slavuj
mdw future art lab ☑️
1030
free
registration needed. Afghan Diaspora musicians + Burgenland-Croation Folklore Ensemble
Duo Gerschlauer | Ullmann
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
some beautifully mellow experimental jazz
Chaos String Quartet
WUK ☑️
1090
€ 20 / € 10 < 30
these are pretty OG, expect classics (i’m talking bach, haydn beethoven), modern classics (i’m talking ligeti) and new/improvised stuff; not sure how tickets/admission work
Spumante & Soundbüglerei invite Super Sound Global
to be announced ⏳
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local club & digging collectives invite crew from munich known for their downtempo coolness; more infos coming soon
[via klingt.org] cosmopolitan improvising an der wien
Celeste ⏳
1050
?
evening dedicated to Hans Falb (RIP) and Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf featuring a heavy line up of improvisers
14 February (Sat)
Music After Nature Day 2
SOHO Studios ⏳
1160
10/15/20 € Pay as you wish
Doors 19:00; Beginn 19:30; A festival dedicated to contemporary music, performance and posthuman discourse. Contemporary + baroque/renaissance music
KUS Soundproject
Arena ☑️
1030
free!
project mentoring vocational students to do music and this is their performances!
MZTAY + قamareen (club)
Brunnenpassage ♿️
1160
free
closing party of a music uni symposium but it sounds like it’s open for everyone. Black American & SWANA grooves & more we don’t know about getting played!
Klang-/Licht STROM + Natasha Moreno
Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 15 PS/€ 17 BO
Natasha Moreno makes intensely beautiful synthesizer ambient noise music; the other act sounds interesting too!
Amore AG Love Letters: Aimé b2b DJ Sprudel + Yazzus + Flausche (flauxpas b2b Mische)
Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
€ 12 PS/€ 15 BO\
lissa:schu collective
kv.r. ⏳
1170
pay as you wish?
munich-based experimental collective is putting a focus on the medium of tape, presenting sounds ranging from harsh noise to delicate field recordings
Gelbe Rüden + No Vida + U.V.M
Einbaumöbel (1bm) ✅
1090
pay as you wish
pretty dope underground post hardcore, noise rock and punk outfits
15 February (Sun)
El Rass + The Synaptik + BOUMPH! + Asifeh + IZRAA + Raqsouna
Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
31€
Rappers from Palestine/Jordan, Lebanon, Syria w great local suppport
Sonntag’sdisco w/ The Telly
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
10€
idk sonntagsdisco is iconic
a little bit of poetry for those who scrolled to the bottom:
Angelina Weld Grimké: El Beso
Twilight—and you,
Quiet—the stars;
Snare of the shine of your teeth,
Your provocative laughter,
The gloom of your hair;
Lure of you, eye and lip;
Yearning, yearning,
Languor, surrender;
Your mouth,
And madness, madness,
Tremulous, breathless, flaming,
The space of a sigh;
Then awakening—remembrance,
Pain, regret—your sobbing;
And again quiet—the stars,
Twilight—and you.
(Negro Poets and Their Poems, 1923)