16-28 February

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Wooooooooof we made a year!!

Let’s have a little ramble to mark the occasion (if the newsletter coming late wasn’t enough to trigger our early adopters‘ nostalgia to the fullest). Consider this section, for this edition, inspired by those recipe blogs intros. You all know what I’m talking about.

So one year ago apparently I was about the same level of disoriented in life as now but with enough energy to match the free time on my hands to single handedly start doing this, while now (yawn, I know I say it almost every time:) I have been surpassed by my helpers in many regards and this newsletter would probably not have made it through my uhhhh waning interest in the joy- and beautiful things in life such as music, as well as lack of motivation of the last months. So here’s once again to everyone doing this together! Looking back on the last year here’s some stuff to celebrate: Our subscribers are in the three-digit-zone now! Barely but it feels good!! Some people have told us they like what we’re doing! Some people have told us they READ what we’re writing!! And soon, there will be even more to celebrate coming from our side! To be seen very soon :))

Speaking of my aforementioned frequent lack of interest in, uhm, life, that stuff really sucks, but anyways yesterday walking home in the late evening I started listening to the newest Blood Orange album and it sounded gorgeous and heartfelt and I was like ouhhh maybe I do need my music to me more sweet and soft and emotional in these fucking times. It’s hard to say and silly to overgeneralise and in any case I’m not the most interesting voice on the matter by any measure lol but it did feel true for me for the moment and it also made me think of some other white person making a similar point, with the added credits of that man being an amazing musician and living in Actually Existing Fascism (or trying-to-come-into-existence, what do I know, and Black and other BIPoC folks in the US will have their own perspective on the spectacle of Trump/Miller’s current ICE regime in comparison to the similarly freakish deportation numbers of his predecessors). In any case, I found the article quite annoying – the kind of thing I sometimes think I wouldn’t write because it (self-confessedly, even) comes down to whining about wanting to make music instead of organising for political change – not that a girl cannot do both and not that the music doesn’t matter!!! – but so yesterday I did have to think about the article and thought okay, you do have a point. Also, I am writing this intro, so my horse in this scenario isn’t all too high. (Here’s the album plugged in that article, which I haven’t listened to a second of but I’m sure it’s beautiful.) So yeah, here goes the traditional rant. I’m basically the Armin Turnher (sorry for invoking the name of the Austrian patron saint of „left“-liberalism) of this publication now?!

As per usual, if applicable to your situation: stay safe, enjoy the snow, hug your friends, ask them for help and offer them such, try to get out of bed sooner rather than later in most scenarios, and try to do whatever to feel some of the beauty and ugliness of life and the weight of the world and some well directed hope!!! if possible and I will try the same to deliver you a less cynical message next time around. Oh and in good tradition: if me being allowed to write whatever here hasn’t convinced you yet, let me make it explicit: if you want to join and help out in some capacity in this newsletter, you’re ever so welcome to do so! Just text us! There’s so much music we don’t know too much about happening and much of it is probably so worthwhile!

anyway,

❤

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Just Announced

11 August (Tue)

Health + Carpenter Brut + Chat Pile + Sierra Veins

Arena (Open Air) ☑️
1030
50€

26 August (Wed)

Blood Orange

Arena (Open Air) ☑️
1030
60€

16 February (Mon)

Monday Improvisers Session: Natyrë Elezi + Georg Zichy (hosted by Didi Kern)

Celeste ⏳
1050
?
piano/electronics + container(?)/electronics

[via schalltaucherin] berghammer - laber - schneider “into the wide”

Porgy & Bess (Strenge Kammer) ☑️
1010
pay as you wish
free improv ppl trying to not play that many notes apparently

17 February (Tue)

dieb13 + Lukas König

kv.r. ⏳
1170
pay as you wish?
triple turntable vs. drums & electronics extravaganza

LOTLab feat. tba

Das LOT ✅
1100
?
open creative space to try out new things, first and foremost for the LOT community

[SOLD OUT | via schalltaucherin] shake stew

Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
pay as you wish live-stream still up

18 February (Wed)

Max Nagl Quintett: Phasolny

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
pretty smooth but interesting jazz

Jul Dillier ‘Aanä’

Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25
really interesting trio featuring piano/harmonium/dulcimer, bass and drums presenting a new album related to swiss folk songs

Moving As A Giant + Lachsfarbe Links

Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 15 PS/€ 17 BO
solid rock from slovenia and a viennese band so new i can’t say anything about them

HO99O9

Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
30€ presale
punk / industrial New Jersey rap duo. only just started listening but pretttttty excited, i guess thats how i think death grips sound? (yes I’ve never listened to them and no this is the official curatorial line lol)

[via schalltaucherin] der bloede dritte mittwoch: adina camhy + leo riegler + sinnthese

Theater-am-Werk-Petersplatz ☑️
1010
17€ presale
I really liked how Adina Camhy’s last release sounded (krst)

19 February (Thu)

Collapse + Grantig + Limited Options

Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you wish
south italy hardcore transmission supported by two local hardcore newcomers

[sold out] The Last Dinner Party

Gasometer ✅
1030
sold out

Goblyns + Das Neue Leben

Arena (Dreiraum) ☑️
1030
24€ pre / doors tba
Relatively chill but really good psych-rock-ish instrumental trio + local support

Cult Member

Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
30 € presale
“shadowy, hypnotic strain of electronic music that fuses techno, acid, and left-field club influences into something both emotionally charged and distinctly atmospheric”

Hip Hop open stage

B72 ✅
1080
free?
u can probably still register to rap urself

Manuel Alcaraz Clemente

Studio Eberhard ⏳
1030
?
intimate session, playing percussion pieces from Zappa to some Viennese ppl

THE MOMENT afterparty with Hypertrash

Filmcasino ♿️
1050
free
hypertrash celebrates the charli xcx movie premiere with an afterparty that’s probably heavy on charli xcx

20 February (Fri)

Noir Club Night #3: Body Maintenance + Left For Pleasure + Dark Venus + Kontaminierungsalarm + Cat Cadget

Das LOT ✅
1100
17€ (PS) / 20€ (BO)
3 live acts and 2 djs bringing you goth EBM post punk energy on a friday nite

Les Lekin + Moon Woman

Arena (Dreiraum) ☑️
1030
€ 20 (pre-sale)
pretty heavy psych rock from salzburg and support from innsbruck

Joaquin Ortega & Daniel Bierdümpfl + Miriam Jochmann & Ellen Preuss

kv.r. ⏳
1170
pay as you wish?
embellish your friday with guitar improv and electro acoustic experimentation

Platypus Ensemble / Neue Musik aus Lateinamerika

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
can’t say anything about the specific programme, but platypus are solid!

HotWax + AYMZ

Chelsea ⏳
1080
pay as you wish: € 5/10/15
powerful UK and viennese punk

Magnetic Funk

Flucc Deck ✅
1020
10€ doors
funk music vinyl all night long

Bouncylicious: Aschenbrenner + DJ Guestlist + Juwlz + Sunny

Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
15€ pre/20€ doors

21 February (Sat)

Between Us: Sergej Krstić + Aleksandra Marr + Fabio Wolkenstein

Tagada ⏳
1160
?
soulful club modalities moving between UK street soul, disco and house

Joaquin Ortega & Daniel Bierdümpfl + Cicale Cicale Cicale

Vekks ☑️
1120
pay what you can
should feature some good ambient guitar (or something like that)

A. A. Williams + Spotlights

Chelsea ⏳
1080
30€ pre-sale / doors tba
dark & heavy (&slow?) songs

Milan W.

Rhiz ♿️
1080
€ 20
antwerp jack of all trades moves between indie pop, chamber jazz, folk rock and nostalgic synths; make sure to check out his latest release on stroom.tv!

Rhinoplasty x Hypertrash

Club-U 📶
1040
free
rhinoplasty with lots of charli xcx in celebration of her new movie

22 February (Sun)

Sanguisugabogg + Fulci + Gates To Hell + Celestian Sanctuary

Viper Room ⏳
1030
37€ pre-sale
death metal, some of which slaps very hard

23 February (Mon)

Monday Improvisers Session: Klaus Filip + Alexander Babikov (hosted by Susanna Gartmayer)

Celeste ⏳
1050
?
poool(??) + guitar

25 February (Wed)

Ernst Lima + Julia Witas

Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 16 PS/€ 18 BO
this should be a great alternative double concert, even though it’s hard to say what to expect exactly: electronic/ambient/dark/?

Augustin Braud + Georg Zichy

Vekks ☑️
1120
pay what you can
electroacoustic, noise, improvisation

[via schalltaucherin] wednesday night prayer orchestra

little stage ⏳
1050
12-22€ pre-sale
big band playing old jazz masters

26 February (Thu)

Ambient Concert (01): Cher Monsieur

Apartment Acht ⏳
1150
free
ambient concert (I guess) at recently re-opened record store with a great selection that focuses mostly on electronic and club music; make sure to also check out their regular in-store sessions!

Lira del Baccano + Triptonus

Venster99 ♿️
1090
?
it’s giving “dudes rock” but it actually does rock; heavy doom space rock prog stoner vibes from rome (NY) and vienna

Delta Sleep + Not Really Either

Arena (Kleine Halle) ☑️
1030
€ 27.75
this is one for the math rock headz

NI + Phenomenal World (liccht)

Celeste ⏳
1050
€ 16 PS/€ 18 BO
by music nerds for music nerds

Marigold + Gush Valley + Killing Milfs

Chelsea ⏳
1080
€12 pre-sale/€15 doors
young vienna punk. some exciting stuff!

Femmetanyl + Swampgenies + Spielzeug + Paul

Coco Bar ⏳
1080
donations (going to Save Gaza)
cute thursday gathering featuring sweet indie-folk-punk, a sweet & eclectic duo, the sweetest punks in town, this writer playing some records, vegan food and a bookstand by bibliobox; all proceeds go to the palestinian mutual aid project Save Gaza, come through!

Library of Civil Disobedience: Noisy Silence

Brunnenpassage ♿️
1160
probs free
not a gig but its vaguely about sound and I think there’s some staunch people involved