16-30 June

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no text for this one but all the more music. enjoy and see you in july! :~)

Just Announced

29 July (Wed)

CV Vision + Meshit

Flucc Deck ✅
1020
€ 13
berlin’s idiosyncratic library and synth psych multi-instrumentalist comes to vienna with his full live band for the first time with viennese support on the decks

7 October (Wed)

Arena (Große Halle) ☑️
1030
€ 31
legendary japanese genre-defying experimental rock/metal outfit is bringing their sound waves to vienna with really cool pennsylvanian slowcore support; we’ll be going!

8 October (Thu)

DE/SEMBLE festival

various venues
pre-sale festival pass €60; day tickets coming soon
cool 4-day festival for jazz and adventurous musics; look out for lineup announcements!

16 June (Tue)

End It + Speedway + Feels Like Heaven

Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
prominent baltimore hardcore group hits vienna, supported by two stockholm hardcore bands

Jehnny Beth

Chelsea ⏳
1080
46€ pre-sale / doors tba
also known for leading Savages

17 June (Wed)

re_late: felix wolfs + J Tiwa + FFF209

Coco Bar 📶
1080
free!
celebrate having made it through wednesday by stopping by, Bestand/re_late is always worth going!

Seppo Gründler + Katharina Klement: entomology

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
improvisation with prepared piano, electric guitar, electronics, and insect recordings (friends/competition for Robert Schwarz?)

Dosser + Trauma Glow + Das Neue Leben

Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
one for the shoegazers; emo shoegaze from baltimore supported by two great viennese shoegaze groups

Central Garden ⏳
1020
?
avant-garde live improvisation in two formats; first, two artists who never played with each other play a blind date concert; second, a live performance by a brass music conglomerate

18 June (Thu)

Feedback in Between: DeeeVeee + Koje Quartett

koje ⏳
1170
idk? feels free
an evening of immersive experimental sound, noise, and collective improvisation homemade instruments, manipulated radio waves, tape recorders, distorted vocals, free improvisation

Carina Khorkhordina & Eric Wong + Vid Drašler & Jakob Gnigler & Laura Pudelek

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
trumpet & electronic sounds + percussion & saxophone & cello

otherMother + Schmack & Sophie Andlinger + Anatole Muster

Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
€ 32
first day of Open Jazz Vienna festival, headlined by the hopecorememes meme page operator who also happens to be an accordion virtuoso

Eric Arn

Substance 📶
1060
free!
local guitar virtuoso showcasing new album with a live set

Destroy Vienna Fest Warm Up: Láz + Exception + Çayîr

Venster99 ♿️
1090
probs pay as you can
warm up party to the DIY hardcore punk fest on that weekend; here featuring post punk and crashin crust from budapest and hardcore from steel city

19 June (Fri)

NAWA Festival Day 1: Saïd Tichiti + Ghetto Birds + Sakina Teyna Septet

Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25 (single day) / € 60 (3-day pass)
third installment of festival dedicated to music and short films by contemporary artists from north africa and west asia

Destroy Vienna Fest Day 1: G.B.H. + Asphalt + Brånd + Venenö + Lickspit + The Dogs + Bull Nakano

Arena ☑️
1030
€ 38 (single day) / € 65 (both days)
DIY hardcore punk fest with a super packed and hard hitting line up; there’s also gonna be a warm-up at venster on thursday and an after party at arena beisl on sunday

Avin Ahmadi + Solo Isa & Verschrin

Apartment Acht ⏳
1150
pay as you wish
concerts by iranian oud player & vocalist and electronic ambient folk duo

Circuit Fantôme S6 Ep8: Rainer Kremser

Vronihof ⏳
1170
pay as you wish
octophonic live performance

Scooby Snacks: Osive + Irieology + Special Guest

B72 ✅
1080
12€?
“genre-freed beats” (probably hip hop adjacent to a significant degree tho?)

20 June (Sat)

Destroy Vienna Fest Day 2: Home Front + Klavo + Brux + Nabat + Industry + Rifle + Cosey Mueller + Zepter

Arena ☑️
1030
€ 45 (single day) / € 65 (both days)
DIY hardcore punk fest with a super packed and hard hitting line up; there’s also gonna be a warm-up at venster on thursday and an after party at arena beisl on sunday

NAWA Festival Day 2: Bakr Khleifi + Golnar Shahyar & Atena Eshtiaghi + Kurdophone

Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25 (single day) / € 60 (3-day pass)
third installment of festival dedicated to music and short films by contemporary artists from north africa and west asia

Markus Sepperer + Delgrado + Ekappa + Kamoscia

Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 10 PS/€ 15 BO
electroacousmatic?

Soli For Rojava: Child Cemetery + Force Fed Farm Animals + Sticky Moloch + Beepki 💸

Tüwi ⏳
1190
donation
heavy concerts from deathgrind to hardcore, DJs, vegan food and a talk/discussion with Feykom; all proceeds go to humanitarian projects in rojava!

Misonica + Saeko Killy + Chris Imler + Annie High & ADHS Lene + Karl Knall

Badeschiff 📶
1100
free!
amazing lineup with live sets and DJ sets revolving around post punk, kraut, dub and wave; can highly recommend checking out Saeko Killy, super fun live! (although this is festwochen sponsored)

shared frqs: ooku b2b dr.schick +´sophaya + dj soup + inkognito

Flucc Deck ✅
1020
pay as you can
friends playing good tunes, there could be a decent focus on UK bass and Black music lineages? In any case, “Sounds that carry lots of emotions, collective memories and vibrations”

post covid society: Adina Camhy

Palais Rössl 📶
1040
free
including a reading; all under the umbrella “healing forces of the universe”. masked, lying-down event. early (14h)!

Solsticio Migranto: La Washa + Sarazteka + DJane Stone + El Gallorojo + Dj Zidi + Nayoo + Sandeep + Irónica Los Culos & Hyko + Off Duty

Below Praterbrücke ⏳
1220
?
multi-collective migrant-centered summer solstice extravaganza, 14-00h, DJs and live sets, food, drinks, dance workshops

1tbsp + Killian

Aux Gazelles ☑️
1060
16-20€

boosterclub: open air session

Otto Wagner Areal Pavillon 1 Outside 📶
1140
free I think
open air session. outdoors! it will be hot. “come by, bring your music, friends, family and loved ones. Kids are obviously welcome toooo💕💕”; there will be food; boosterclub is centering BIPOC and/or trans people and queers

21 June (Sun)

NAWA Festival Day 3: Nawa Orchestra & Guests

Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25 (single day) / € 60 (3-day pass)
third installment of festival dedicated to music and short films by contemporary artists from north africa and west asia

MidSummer: Ansgar + Elisa Godino + Fingers Of God + Lisa Pulsatilla

Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1140
€ 8 (PS) / € 10 (BO)
outdoor ambient listening gathering celebrating summer solstice with plenty of workshops ranging from flower crowns to spoon carving

Destroy Vienna Fest After Party: G.A.Z.E. + Incriminate + Tixo

Arena Beisl 📶
1030
probs pay as you can
in case you didn’t have enough DIY hardcore fun already over the weekend, Destroy Vienna Fest also hosts an after party with some more hardcore punk shows to put the nail in the coffin

22 June (Mon)

Whispers + Domain

Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you can
HC4L keeps it rollin and brings super heavy hardcore from bangkok plus metallic hardcore from south florida to vienna

Monday Improv: Almut Schlichting & Lukas Aichinger

Celeste ⏳
1050
free
bariton sax + drums free improv; open session too

[SOLD OUT] Smerz

Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
sold out

23 June (Tue)

The Handover + Luciana Rizzo

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
very exciting Egypt/Norway/Belgium trio doing a psych-ed up take on traditional Egyptian music + experimental percussion

Tehmine Schaeffer: Orient/Occident

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
expolorations of Armenian music

Aldous Harding

Arena (Große Halle) ☑️
1030
€ 41.70
acclaimed indie folk singer-songwriter from new zealand (pretty hefty price tho, fuck ticketmaster)

24 June (Wed)

Stay in Nothing + Swelle

Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 12 PS/€ 15 BO
is Swelle vienna’s Wednesday? in any case they make very good and beautiful music

Luca Atzori + Delfina Cheb & Quique Sinesi

Vekks ☑️
1120
free
solo voice performance showing off different singing techniques like Khomei, Stgyt, and Kargira techniques… inspired by the bearded saint Vilgefortis; argentinian tango and folkloric singer and guitarist

airborne extended & Hannah Todt: Prism #21 – where three walls meet

Reaktor ✅
1170
€ 15
flute-focused evening (including a modular flute installation), but also featuring harp and harpsichord

25 June (Thu)

Mivos Quartet: May Our Centers Hold CD Release

Reaktor ✅
1170
€ 15
quartet playing really nice contemporary classical music

La Perla

Fanialive 📶
1080
€ 20.28 (PS) / € 25 (BO)
percussion and vocal trio from bogotá blends various styles from merengue and champeta to punk, hip-hop, and beatboxing

Men I Trust

Arena (Open Air) ☑️
1030
€ 49.90
quebecois indie band with that dreamy sound, sadly at a steep price (fuck ticketmaster again)

Myles Bullen + Squalloscope + Vienna Soundpainting Collective

Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1140
€ 15 (regular) / € 10 (soli)
US folk punk grief rapper supported by vienna-based electronic & experimental folk singer-songwriter and collective fusing improvised (jazz) music and movement

[SOLD OUT] Bridge City Sinners + Johanna Rose and the Dreamboats

Viper Room ⏳
1030
sold out / 30
“Satanic Ragtime? Blackgrass? Punk Folk?”

26 June (Fri)

Chlär + Andrew Ahmed + Kecki + Lila Gold + Pinklotion

Grelle Forelle ☑️
1090
€ 19 (current phase)
idk Chlär does pretty good techno

Rapid Zen + STANZER:MOODY

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
Rapid Zen do pretty wild improvisation incorporating turntablism if you’re into that

Noir Club Night: Marbled Eye + Laura Krieg + Klebstoff + DJs: Radiation + V01D + Soii

Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 18 PS/€ 20 BO

SPIRAL BIKE: Electric Indigo + Mona Matbou Riahi + Jopa Jotakin + Mario Bergamasco & Construction Choir Collective + Anna Weidenholzer + Laut Fragen & Edith Lettner + ZAK – Center for Antidisciplinary Art

Brigittenauer Brücke ⏳
1200
free
really amazing concerts and performances revolving around bikes; this year contextualizing the historical counterculture of Schlurfs (jazz subculture antifascist resistance during the 1930s and 1940s in vienna); the event starts out with a sound bike ride from prater

Moozak Multichannel Series #08: GISCHT + Runar Magnusson + Nova Lux + Jonas Hammerer

Semmelweisklinik ⏳
1180
probs pay as you wish
experimental multichannel live performances

Tahereh Nourani + Francesca Ceccherini: Echoes, Ecologies, Memory Work

Brunnenpassage ♿️
1160
probs pay as you wish
listening and sound performances, in the context of The Listening Academy (idk what that is either)

Play as Resistance: Algoriddim Girls + Gawdesque + DJ WKStA + lexyz0 + Scetta

Flucc Deck ✅, Flucc Wanne ✅
1020
pay as you can
This is also an exhibiton of gaming culture related works with a specifically anti techofascist angle. Intriguing and good DJs!

Sacred Who: Miraballa Paida Mwoyo + Enesi M. + more tba

Kulturgarage ☑️
1220
mostly pole dance and other performances, also a party tho and its really good people afaik

27 June (Sat)

Catenation + Gustavo Obligado + Magdalena Forster

Château Rouge ⏳
1120
usually free
CATENATION: live set of modular and hardware electronics; intense, experimental, industrial; GUSTAVO OBLIGADO: saxophone with a real-time sampler/sequencer; live recording + instrument samples, homemade pedals, preparations; MAGDALENA FORSTER : reanimated salvaged organ pipes find new life in her work; Echo Body was also selected for Impulstanz 8tension Series 2026

Watch the world end: Antonia XM + Kids don’t smoke + Lino Camillo + yarx + amblio b2b xavior™ + neon.kotze

Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1140
€ 15 (regular) / € 10 (soli)
album release show of Antonia XM’s new record, being described as EDM (emo dance music), with amazing live and DJ support

Tonbandfest: Gran Bankrott + Druck + Lilith-Isa & Gundega Graudina & Zosia Hołubowska + Lisa Obereder + Rosa Nebel + Jens Vetter + Patrick Topitschnig + Minki Mumu

SchloR ☑️
1110
free!
local tapeheads celebrate the cassette with plenty of live shows that range from electro-acoustic improvisation to krautpunk, DJ sets, art installations and of course a big tape label market and mixtape swap; sounds like great fun!

BLK TLC + BPPS house party: lineup tba 💸

Türkis Rosa Lila Villa ♿️
1060
tba
QTBIPOC centered, open to all ☀️

17(Joy) x Infame Radio: Adriana Buss & Sopho Sheitnishvili + Aimé + BLK TLC + Brage Håvik + Callshop Radio + Cardboard Lamb & kk4rbon + Darina + DJ Terror + Ezra Šimek + Heathland Fleur & Tereza Klcova + Helena McFadzean & Alex Corodan + Jen Kratochvil + Low End Dialogues + Lucía Ugena + Malak Jayeola Aderounmu + Mara Never W + Marita Fraser + Maxine Vajd + Patta + Rogine + Stasia Garus & Armin Schroetter X AW + Tao Iver + Yves

17(Joy) ⏳
1040
free!
two-day pop-up radio café featuring spoken word performances, readings, DJ and live sets, and drinks; not sure which artists perform on what day but in any case the lineup looks really amazing!

28 June (Sun)

Morgue Breath + Sulfuric Cautery + Backyard + Retorsion

Venster99 ♿️
1090
?
los angeles grindcore with support

Madeline Goldstein + Sundl

Chelsea ⏳
1080
21€ pre-sale / 23€ doors
goth-y, wave-y, and also very hooky theatrical goodness, supported by acclaimed (I think) local producer. both their stuff sounds seriously great

syn_: Bliss (live) + Ku-Ro & Mara Never (live) + Asifeh (live) + Solo Isa (dj) + Yasmina Haddad (dj) + Ádám Salomvári & Laura Oyuela (sound performance)

Flucc Deck ✅
1020
from € 10 (limited presale; € 15 regular)
Bestand is bringing a sweet Beirut grunge band to vienna and curated a whole evening programme around it!