beav boloney & little league shows prsnt:

HUMANS AS ORNAMENTS / experimental indie noise-rock, berlin/leipzig
humansasornaments.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/humansasornaments 

& ZYLVA / avant pop, bln
zylva.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/zylva_zylva 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available --> vvk.link/3tefjgw 

aftershow DJs tba!

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HUMANS AS ORNAMENTS have always felt at home in a space of musical experimentation. Their songs contain a variety of influences - always delivered with a raw emotional intensity. Drawing from various genres between Post-Punk, Art-Rock, R&B and HipHop, the childhood friends Dave and Dennis continuously try to find connections within opposites. As a result, their sound is distinctly individual and uncompromising.

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Berlin-based singer and electronic artist ZYLVA channels themes of hope and recovery on her EP "Antiroom." After the feat of strength that was the release of her debut album "Poems from the Dark" in 2023, Zylva longed for musical and personal companionship, something she found again in Ludwig Wandinger, a fellow Berlin resident who co-produced the EP. In keeping with the heterogeneous approach of her debut, with genres ranging from Avant Pop to Indie and Ambient over the course of 5 tracks, "Antiroom" reflects the breadth of Zylva’s musical spectrum. The title’s double meaning ("Antiroom/Anteroom") refers to spaces where one’s presence (e.g., as a female producer) is not intended, as well as the EP being a precursor to future musings and a harbinger of recovery.

Gob is a legendary Canadian punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, known for their
infectious, hook-laden sound and relentless DIY ethic. As they approach their 30th anniversary, Gob’s
influence on the punk scene remains undeniable. The band first gained prominence in 1995 with their hit
“Soda” from the album Too Late… No Friends, which became a youth anthem in Canada, thanks in part to its
iconic music video which received heavy rotation on Canada’s Muchmusic.
Over the years, Gob has released six full-length albums, sold over 300,000 physical copies, and earned
Juno nominations and Gold record certifications. Their singles “I Hear You Calling” and “Give Up the Grudge”
further solidified their place in punk rock history. Known for their energetic live shows, Gob has performed
worldwide, including major festivals like Warped Tour, Edgefest, and Amnesia Rockfest. They are one of the
rare punk bands to have had the honor of gracing the stage at Budokan in Japan.

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Pommes oder Pizza

A staple of the Toronto scene for over a decade, The Anti-Queens are an ultra-hard-working, punked-up rock 'n' roll quartet. They've become infamous in their hometown of Toronto for their insanely high-energy, take-no-prisoners live performances.

The Anti-Queens released their second LP, DISENCHANTED, in May 2024 – produced by Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh and Steve Rizun. The band has previously self-released two stellar EPs (Grow Up/Stay Young and Start Running) and their killer full-length debut on Stomp Records in the fall of 2019. 

puschen & little league shows prsnt:

MICHAEL BEACH / exp psych garage pop/folk, melbourne, australia
michaelbeach.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/michaelbeach___ 

+ support tba.

at Schokoladen. doors 19 Uhr, concert starts 20 Uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/3umwmcw 

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After a year of downtime and writing, Michael Beach emerged in late 2024 with 'The Sea,' the first release from his upcoming LP on Goner/Poison City Records, and first of his recent collaborations mixing pulsing minimalism with post-punk/DIY approaches with Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Joe Talia (Oren Ambarchi, Ned Collette). A new 7" via Minneapolis label 25 Diamonds coincided with his recent US tour with Tropical Fuck Storm.

Known for his previous collaborations with members of Dirty Three, Tropical Fuck Storm, Comets On Fire, and brilliantly eccentric guitarist Charlie Megira, Beach is the architect of a sound that is both well-built and ramshackle, straightforward and indeterminably complex, out of the norm yet familiar in all the best ways.

Beach’s 2022 EP (Goner) saw him mix blown out rock and roll with his unique style of balladry, including collaborations with Lloyd Swanton on legendary Australian minimalists The Necks. His 2021 fourth full-length, Dream Violence (Goner) is an epic album that explores the duality of the human condition. Or, as Beach himself puts it, the album is about “human futility, passion, desire, anger, frustration, and the struggle to maintain hope in a somewhat hopeless time.”

Dream Violence unfolds like a revelation, filled with sonic tumbleweeds that reference Neil Young’s On the Beach, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and the Go Betweens’ Before Hollywood. Influences ranging from the enigmatic outlier Megira to Glenn Branca to the Oblivians are combined to create a new, exhilarating sound, part of the path that Beach has been on since 2008’s Blood Courses. A veteran of year-end indie rock round ups beginning with Golden Theft in 2013 and continuing with Gravity/Repulsion, released in 2017, Beach distills the best of those early albums and adds sharpened intent.

At the Memphis-based Goner label, Beach joins an increasingly unique roster of international musicians that reaches far beyond garage or indie rock to encompass artists like gospel singer Rev. John Wilkins, Kentucky rockers Archaeas, New Orleans iconoclasts Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and no-wavers Optic Sink.

4 Stars – ‘existential dread exorcised through heady guitar rockers’ – NME

‘Beach is a great Melbourne guitarist…reminds me of early Kurt Vile, with it’s mix of aggression and looseness’ – Byron Coley, Wire Magazine

beav boloney & little league shows prsnt:

LENGUAS LARGAS / psych/garage-punk, tucson/arizona
lenguaslargas.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/lenguaslargas 

+ NEUKÖLLNER SPEED DATING CLUB / kraut/drone-pop, leipzig
 - nsdc.bandcamp.com - 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/3tehomo

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In Spanish, the band’s name LENGUAS LARGAS refers to a busybody whose slander is typically untrue. For those not in the know, Lenguas Largas are a badass, genre-crossing amalgamation delivered with a punk rock sneer.

Absorbing the mélange of sound that overlaps two worlds — norteño, punk, psychedelic, indie, rock en Español, ranchera, soul and R&B — Lenguas Largas’ music uniquely reflects cross-cultural life in the Borderlands. at the end, TOTAL FUN!!

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NEUKÖLLNER SPEED DATING CLUB started as a solo project based around samplers, drum machines, synthesizers and keyboards, but now performs with a constantly changing line-up of various instruments. The drones, kraut-like repetition and bouncy electronic drums mixed with motoric sampled kits creates a hypnotic and psychedelic feel, mixed with a pinch of things like dub, noise and pop.

Mit Jung kaputt spart Altersheime lieferten Bärchen und die Milchbubis zu Beginn der 80er-Jahre DEN Punk-Slogan der Zeit, „No Future!“, war das Motto. Doch auch über den Punk hinaus verfügte die Band über reichlich Pop-Appeal und agierte an der Schnittstelle zur Neuen Deutschen Welle. Ich will nicht älter werden, hieß es auf ihrem Debütalbum Dann macht es Bumm (1981). Älter geworden sind sie, milde jedoch nicht, denn Anlass zum Wütend-Sein und Feiern gibt es noch immer. Über 40 Jahre später folgt nun mit ihrem zweiten Album also Die Rückkehr des Bumm!

Ende der Siebziger begannen Annette „Bärchen“ Simons und eine Gruppe Teenager-„Milchbubis“, Hannover unsicher zu machen. Von da an war die Band mit ihren humorvoll-subversiven Texten breitflächig vertreten: Von Jugendzentren, Underground-Tapes und nischigen Fanzines über die Bravo bis ins BRD-Fernsehen sowie auf den großen Bühnen des Landes – viele waren dem Bärchen-Charme verfallen. Nach einer LP und einer EP folgte 1983 mit der Label- auch die Bandauflösung und die Gruppe verschwand vorerst von der Bildfläche.

Und jetzt sind sie wieder da, und natürlich auch im Schokoladen Berlin!

These four musicians breathe new life into the genre in a special way. An American, a Welshman, an Irishman and a German with a clear statement: Punk is not dead! And you know what: neither is ska, for that matter. The band was formed when Jake and Michael decided to try and cover the album “…And Out Come the Wolves,” one of their all-time favourites. They got to about half of it before the duo thought “Hey, in addition to Rancid covers, let’s play some original ska punk rock too, wouldn’t that be fun!” Over a few cold bottles of their favourite drink, they went through hundreds of band names. Most of them were meaningless combinations of words that just sounded good, as many band names are. But the intense “Beer-storming” ultimately led to the goal: Mad Life Crisis. Cheers!

Diese vier Musiker hauchen dem Genre auf besondere Weise neues Leben ein. Ein Amerikaner, ein Waliser, ein Ire und ein Deutsche mit einer klaren Aussage: Punk ist nicht tot! Und weißt du was: Ska ist es auch nicht, was das angibt. Die Band wurde gegründet, als Jake und Michael beschlossen, das Album "...And Out Come the Wolves" zu covern, einen ihrer absoluten Favoriten. Sie haben etwa die Hälfte davon geschafft, bevor das Duo dachte: "Hey, zusätzlich zu Rancid-Covern, lass uns auch etwas Original-Ska-Punk-Rock spielen, würde das nicht Spaß machen!" Bei ein paar kalten Flaschen ihres Lieblingsgetränks gingen sie Hunderte von Bandnamen durch. Die meisten von ihnen waren bedeutungslose Wortkombinationen, die einfach gut klangen, wie viele Bandnamen auch. Aber das intensive "Beer-Storming" führte letztendlich zu dem Ziel: Mad Life Crisis. Prost!

Seit 2002 sind Pussy Mouskouri unterwegs, um allen, die sie hören wollen, die größten Punk-Rock-Hits aller Zeiten um die Ohren zu schlagen. Dabei werden selbst die ruhigsten Balladen-Barden wie z.B. Dead Kennedys oder Offspring in knappe 3-Minuten-Kracher umgewandelt, immer unter der Maxime, dass die Zeit bis zum nächsten Schluck Bier nicht zu lang sein darf. Dementsprechend ist im Publikum und auf der Bühne der Frustfraktor meistens gering, der Partyfaktor dagegen extrem hoch.

Since 2002, Pussy Mouskouri has been road to listen to the greatest punk-rock hits ever. The most quiet ballan-bards, such as Dead Kennedys or Offspring are becomes into knappe 3-minute-Knorker, always under the the Maxime that the time to the next Bier't be allowed to be to a long. Accordingly, the frustration factor is usually beding in the audience and on the stage, the frustration factor is extremely high.

Human Hair People aus Bielefeld spielen eine Version von Post Punk, die hingehört, genickt und ihren eigenen Senf dazugegeben hat, von dem reichlich im Keller steht. Schließlich spielen Jones Stolze (Bass), Robert Becker (Gitarre), Andreas Hankock (Gitarre, Gesang) und Morten Wienold (Schlagzeug) seit über 30 Jahren immer wieder in verschiedenen Bands zusammen. Als Human Hair People kennen sie den staksigen Funk von Gang Of Four, den musikalischen Stoizismus von „It’s not repetition, it’s discipline“-Mark E. Smith/The Fall (sind dabei aber nicht so schlecht gelaunt), genauso wie sie die komplexere Mathematik und Präzision von Nomeansno um ein paar Ecken weiter denken. Dazwischen zeugt ein so überraschend wie kurz durch den Raum fliegendes Bluesriff von Kenntnis der Historie oder geschmeidige Offbeats lockern die Spannung für einen Moment. Nichts ist sicher in diesem Kontext. Human Hair People kennen ihre Pappenheimer und ihre Pappenheimer lieben sie. Wie Karin Bornefeld von den holländischen Hardcore-Legenden The Ex, die ihrem Support Act HHP begeistert bescheinigte: „ Ganz ähnlich wie wir“. Too long, don’t read: Human Hair People sind musikalisch anspruchsvoll, so geradeaus wie komplex, instrumental ausgereift, textlich mit politischer Substanz! Hingehen, hören!!!

beav boloney & wildwax & little league shows prsnt:

Aussie punk series vol xx

CHECKPOINT / eggpunk/garage-punk, naarm/aus
checkpoint.bandcamp.com  / instagram.com/checkpoint_____

& FLAWS / punk, bln
flavvs.bandcamp.com  / instagram.com/flaws.band

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/3uc6tgw

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All the way from Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) Jordan from Pinch Points, Miranda from Dr Sure's Unusual Practice, Tom from Gonzo and Dragnet, Amada from Carpet Burn, Gutter Girls plus Chris and Erik from Hobsons Bay Coast Guard. What do you get when you put these people in one practice room? Yes - CHECKPOINT! 
Synth-punk-driven garage madness. Solid grit, multiple and good flipping variations. Including crazy-ass funky vibes, and even cadences near Aussie cumbia (if it even exists?) in passages. Exquisite drums, and the synth and keyboards are excellent here. The old lo-fi ’80s tape vibe is well-achieved, and there’s even some nods to the style of Under the Gun associates. Multifaceted, trance-inducing egg-psych almost all the way, especially the track “Circuit Breaker.” Good blasting explosions of Australian garage from a solid super-group delivering new dimensions and sounds. Crunchy, deep-fried, lo-fi feels.perfect!

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FLAWS sound like an old dangerhouse band (BAGS!) mixed with riot Grrrrl influences, like it! aus Berlin/B.H.

beav boloney & little league & wildwax prsnt:
a high energy rock package with:

JEAN MIGNON / garage-punk, new york city
jeanmignon.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/jeanmignonmf 

& PIE O MY / power-grunge, tel aviv
pieomygod.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/pieomygod 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/3urjsvk

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JEAN MIGNON is a solo project from NYC-via-Boston noise impresario Johnny Steines. He borrows the name of a 16th century French engraver to plunge into a breakneck, blistering river of feedback. Over the course of just under fourteen minutes, he shreds, howls, deadpans, and overall gives the impression of someone who might see that they have 666 monthly listeners on Spotify and say “Sick.”

Primal Rock and Roll that screams from the speakers and excites like a high-speed car chase! A reckless sort of freedom that comes with trading nuance for garage punk rawness.

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Emerging from the hot, bubbling scene of Tel Aviv, PIE O MY quickly gained popularity in the local alternative circuits through relentless touring and word-of-mouth buzz. Soon enough they began performing at high-profile music festivals and received airplay on national radio.

Inspired by acts like Queens of the Stone Age, Ty Segall and The Oh Sees, Pie o My stands out for its unique blend of high-energy rock'n'roll with heartfelt ballads. With catchy melodies and memorable hooks, Pie’s distinctive fusion of heavy guitar riffs and smashing drums alongside mellow melodies and soulful vocals will shake your bones and electrify your senses on one song, then will break your heart and make you raise your lighter on the next.