Veranstaltungen
Berliner Lvft (DE)
In the gutters of Berlin, there's a band that howls like a banshee in the night. Berliner Lvft, they call themselves, and they're a motley crew of misfits who live to drink and get high. Four weirdos, who make the devil's music with aluminum neck guitars and strange tunings that would make your ears bleed. But there's a strange beauty in their ugliness, a kind of poetry in their madness. They rage against the world, spitting out their disgust with society in every note they play. And when they play, they create a kind of magic. A raw, unfiltered energy that shakes you to your core and leaves you gasping for air.
Kitchen (US / acoustic set)
Kitchen is the recording project of James Keegan from Rochester, NY. Keegan began releasing lo-fi tape music under the name Kitchen in 2016 and has released 4 albums and a handful of EPs and singles, branching out into more complex arrangements and recording methods in the years since. Kitchen is trying to present a dream to you.
shep treasure (US / acoustic set)
'shep treasure' is the moniker of songwriter and visual artist Sabrina Nichols. Combining a sharp melodic sensibility with an ear for noise and dissonance, 'shep treasure' creates a sound world like The Edge Of Night.
doors 19, show 20h, after 22h DJs!
little league shows & disaster by design prsnt:
GYM TONIC (synth-punk, bln) + ULTRABONUS (flower-punk, bln).
gymtonic.bandcamp.com / ultrabonus.bandcamp.com
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets for the concert at the doors and in pre-sale --> /vvk.link/3bqgb2o
aftershow DJs tba!
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GYM TONIC are an international four-piece and talk of the town when it comes to hyped-up synth punk. In some parallel universe, DEVO, Half Japanese and The Residents grew into one and decided to channel their energy into songs about nuclear catastrophes, vitamin injections, car sickness and deadly events. Throw melody lines straight out of the Twillight Zone on top and you have an all-around gem.
Brighty melodies, microsongs, altered nerves: ULTRABONUS crafted their flowerpunk transmissor with legitim sudamerikan spirit and a dosis of indie slackness. Their last album, El Casino de la Muerte, updates argentinian punk&pop school with dystopic poetry, postreality stories and ultraistic details.
Tavare (DE)
Tavare, originally performing under the moniker Aidan Baker Trio, is a newly formed Berlin-based trio playing stripped-down slowcore, dirge-pop. The band consists of Aidan Baker, originally from Canada but based in Berlin for over a decade, who makes guitar-based music ranging from ambient/experimental to post-rock to drone-jazz, both solo and with various groups, mostly notably the dreamsludge duo Nadja; Tristen Bakker, also from Canada, who makes soft-noise, prog, ambient and punk music as a solo artist and with groups such as Vrouw! and Otolitos; and Angela Muñoz, a musician, dancer and performer from Spain, who plays with several groups including nunofyrbeeswax, Vrouw! and (also with Aidan) Hypnodrone Ensemble.
Ghost Bag (DE)
Ghost Bag is the recording alias of Nick Jongen. Born in the Netherlands in 1991 & currently residing in Berlin, Germany. Palindrome is his second release under the moniker Ghost Bag. It was written and recorded in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil during an artist residency at Goethe Institute in January and February of 2019. Following up on Jongen's 2018 debut under the Ghost Bag moniker, Ghost Bag & Tine Fetz – an audiovisual collaboration with illustrator Tine Fetz - Palindrome is undoubtedly a solo effort. On this self-recorded documentation of his travels, Jongen reflects on the past, present, and worries about his future. Summoning rippling clouds of guitar textures punctuated by intricate finger-picking figures set the backdrop to his ethereal vocals, while synths rumble like a volcano in the distance.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/2kMGKN4ZBnRSA51Iaadiep
https://corpband.bandcamp.com/
Kitty Solaris "James Bond" Record Release Party
Kitty Solaris is a well known berlin singer/songwriter following the footsteps of her alltime favorites Velvet Underground, Patty Smith and Catpower. In her kitchen in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, she developed her very unique style, playing meditative, mellow and melancholic songs on her electric guitar accompanied by her tender voice. Always straight to the point with headlines and catchy hooklines. The latest albums "Sunglasses" and "Girls & Music" combine unique lyrics and guitar with electronic music. The new album "James Bond" is out on Jly 19th and got rotation on radio eins and other stations.
https://youtu.be/AXc6yRvMj6w
„Call KITTY SOLARIS the Indie Queen of Berlin, a musical shapeshifter, a voice for empowerment, or just one of the most daring musicians/producers working today." Global Texan Chronicles
https://youtu.be/AXc6yRvMj6w
www.instagram.com/kitty_solaris
https://kittysolaris.bandcamp.com/album/girls-music
https://kittysolaris.bandcamp.com/album/cold-city
CORP
CORP. is a Berlin/Dublin based corporation which radically disrupts consumers' livelihoods through high-risk high-risk post-office-pop. CORP. has achieved an innovative musical stranglehold which has sent other indie musical enterprises into retreat. Bands like MGMT, Surf Curse, Joy Division, and TV Girl have served CORP. well as musical influences, but it is only the fearless CORP. that has uncovered the real reason for melody manufacture: Immense Profits.
www.corp.band
https://open.spotify.com/artist/501XpbV9evuc6BWl2RDuwy?si=OxreQk1-Q22R-SkDiPB1BA
https://corpband.bandcamp.com/
doors 19, show 20h, after 22h DJs!
little league shows prsnts:
NEW OTHERS (post-punk/shoegaze, bln, rec release!) & PRETTY AVERAGE (shoegaze/indie, bln)
more infos very soon!
doors 19, show 20h, after 22h DJs!
my people booking & little league shows prsnt: SWISS PLEASURE (dream pop/post-punk) release show! + tba.
linktr.ee/swisspleasure / instagram.com/swiss.pleasure
more infos very soon!
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets for the concert at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3bqig8g
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Die 2021 gegründeten BERLIN 2.0, um die mit ihrer sonoren Stimme gesegneten Ausnahme-Vokalistin Elena Wolf, liefern ein absolutes Highlight ab, unter dessen waviger Oberfläche immer eine nicht von der Hand zu weisende, rohe Punkrockbasis lauert, die sich natürlich auch in den exzellenten deutschsprachigen Lyrics niederschlägt. Hardcore-Versatzstücke vermengen sich mit dem Einfluss von US Deathrock, bergen aber eben auch diese herrliche Pop-Affinität.
Thursday's at Schokoladen - good music and cheap drinks
M:Soundtrack presents: Saroos (Alien Transistor- make up show) + RAD (Paris /US / Ouvre)
@ Schokoladen - Tonight we celebrate two great acts who both had to cancel shows this year due to unforseen circumstances so we decide to bundle that energy and bring them both to you on one night , from the poetic drone weird blues-punk of RAD a quasi-Tantric dialogue between alarmingly raw improv, electronica, story-telling and heart-of-guitar. ANd the beats and pops and postrocky soundtrack from the scientists , composers and instrumentalists SAROOS -- they’re obsessed with sound as particles in motion, and devoted to creating stylistic collisions that pop as much as they probe.
Thursday, September 5
SAROOS
Weilheim, Berlin, Morr Music, Alien Transistor, und und und.
Auf den Festplatten dieses magischen Netzwerks wurde einst das Genre Electronica angelegt und seitdem entsteht zwischen den vielen Koordinaten der Szene laufend fantastische Musik. Mit etlichen Überschneidungen und Kollaborationen mit den bereits genannten Akteuren sind Saroos fester Bestandteil dieser ausgesprochen freundlich klingenden transatlantischen Melancholie. Das Trio begibt sich dabei auf einen Trip entlang von Hip-Hop-Samples, hinein in sphärische Instrumental-Arrangements. Hier verspielt, da verkopft. Postrock mit Herz. Irgendwie intellektuell und doch ganz entspannt. Sperrig und besänftigend zugleich. Linke und rechte Gehirnhälfte wippen in seltener Übereinkunft mit.“
Florian Zimmer, Christoph Brandner und Max Punktezahl – sonst Mitglieder von The Notwist, Driftmachine, Lali Puna deren nunmehr sechstes Full-Length-Werk „Turtle Roll“, Juni 2023 auf dem Notwist-eigenen Label „Alien Transistor“ erscheint setzten dieses Mal auf KOLLABORATION:auf sieben der elf Tracks steuern Gäste ihre Vocals bei. Live wird das zwar eher eine untergeordnete Rolle spielen. Aber es wird interessant zu hören sein, wie die jeweiligen Gastsänger*innen auch den Instrumentalversionen Ihren Stempel aufgedrückt haben.
RAD (FR/USA) poetic drone weird blues-punk
Nicolas Laureau - (NLF3+) & Brisa Roché
RAD: project founded in 2022 by singer/writer Brisa Roché and producer/musician Nicolas Laureau.
RAD: haunting duo creating collaborative slap-you-in-the-face landscapes between blues/elvin singing and drone/guitar exhalations.
RAD: quasi-Tantric dialogue between alarmingly raw improv, electronica, story-telling and heart-of-guitar.
RAD: reduction of « radical », a term used for cool/awesome in the California of the 1980s.
RAD: according to Brisa and Nicolas « A punk lullaby, an inner dialogue turned outer, breathing guitar, NY meets CA meets France with transformation transgender, FX, nature/mountains plus urban plus dreamscapes. FIRE and ICE. »
After Show DJ: TBA
doors 19, show 20h, after 22h DJs
MERMAID MAN Record Release with special guests Wedge!
mermaidman.bandcamp.com /// instagram.com/mermaidman_music
"Let's Dance To The End Of The World" is the debut LP by Mermaid Man and the result of a 3-year-process of pandemic songwriting, recording and mixing at Fonojet Studio in Berlin.
The album covers a wide range of influences, melting Psychedelic Garage, Funk, Soul & Wave into a musical entity to form an eclectic identity. It is the solo project of Robin Heller (formerly Sir Robin & The Longbowmen) who recorded all instruments on the album despite being blessed with the musical talent of Jan Bukovjan and Matěj Šolc, who have been recording saxophone and trumpet, as well as Keegan McInroe who lent his voice for the intro of the title track and first single "Let's Dance To The End Of The World". The songs are performed live as a 4-piece that is setting sails for major European release tours following the album release on 01.09.2024. The LP will be available on vinyl and all streaming platforms from 01.09.2024!
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at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/36d4uy8
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Deutsch: Nosebleed sind ein Garage-Rock-Trio aus Leeds in England. Mit ihren frenetischen, vom Rock’n’Roll inspirierten Hymnen ist die Band seit 2014 konstant auf Tour, in Locations und auf Festivals sowohl in Großbritannien als auch in ganz Europa. Shout Louder Magazine nennt sie die „beste Live-BandEnglands“. Dank ihrer starken Bühnenpräsenz überläßt Nosebleed überall einen bleibenden Eindruck, und sohat es die Band von räudigen Lokalschuppen bis auf die großen Bühnen von Kendal Calling, Boomtown Fair, Camp Bestival, Beatherder, dem Rebellion und dem Manchester Punk Festival geschafft. Sie sind, um es kurz zu machen, ein eindrucksvoller Augen- und Ohrenschmaus.
Englisch: “Nosebleed are a garage rock, three-piece from Leeds, England. Playing frantic rock n roll inspired anthems the band have toured non-stop since 2014 hitting venues and festivals across the UK and Europe. They have been called “the best live band in the UK” by Shout Louder Magazine. Known for theirsuited and booted stage presence, their live show has made waves taking them from sweaty toilet venues to the stages of Kendal Calling, Boomtown Fair, Bestival, Camp Bestival, Beatherder, Rebellion and Manchester Punk Festival and is a real sight to behold.”
