dq agency & little league shows prsnt:

LEATHERETTE (post-punk, it) + tba.
instagram.com/leatherette.band / leatherette111.bandcamp.com 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3i3yws0

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LEATHERETTE are Andrea, Francesco, Jacopo, Marco and Michele. Formed in 2018, they are based in Bologna, Italy. Their name comes from the iconic single Warm Leatherette by The Normal. Leatherette almost sounds like a mockery of rock music and its aesthetics, simultaneously embraced and rejected, shredded. Their music is a potpourri of punk outbursts, jazz atmospheres and hints of no wave, generating a rich and composite sound, sometimes warm and welcoming, sometimes harsh, scratchy and unpredictable.

In 2021 they released Mixed Waste (WWNBB), a self-produced EP, followed by intense live activity throughout Italy (MiAmi, Beaches Brew), Europe and the UK.  In 2022 they signed to Bronson Recordings, and released their first LP, “Fiesta”, a disruptive album (Up To Hear). A car-crash of jagged noise, twisted love and dark, angsty melody, it was very well received by the local press (Noise, Blow-Up, MTV) and international press (The New Cue, NME), while Iggy Pop himself played their track “Dead Well” on his BBC Radio 6 show. They also released two videos for the songs “So Long” and “Thin Ice”. In spring 2023 they embarked on a European tour that saw them play in Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the UK. Back in Italy, they continued the tour in the country by going down to Sicily and Apulia, then playing again in Valtellina and again in Switzerland. During the summer they participated in Italian festivals (LARS ROCK FESTIVAL, Apolide festival, Lowl festival), they opened for Shame during the SEI Festival 2023 in Corigliano d’Otranto. During 2023 Iggy Pop played three singles from the Fiesta album (Dead Well, So Long, Come Clean) on his radio show on BBC Radio 6 music.

They released their second LP, (Small Talk) in November 2023 via Bronson Recordings. Recorded by Andrea Cola and Bruno Dorella, mixed by Chris Fullard (Idles) and mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. Distributed by Virgin Music Italy/Universal Music Group. In the autumn they took part in the M:WM festival in Berlin and the Linecheck festival in Milan. They released the video clip for the single ‘The Ugliest’ on VEVO. After the release of “Small Talk” they appeared in major Italian and international newspapers: “La Repubblica, Il manifesto, Internazionale, Rolling Stone”. They were listed in the NME as one of the ten new releases to be discovered during the 2024 edition of Eurosonic Festival, in Groningen. They will also play at the 2024 MENT Festival in Ljubljana in February.

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Velvet Two Stripes    (Garage/ Blues-Rock/ Riot Grrrl Punkrock | CH)

Vielleicht sollten wir Jack White dafür danken, dass er den Geist des Blues Rock während der letzten 15 Jahre ins gegenwärtige Zeitalter gebracht hat und somit die Bedeutung einer der ältesten Rockmusik-Genres übermittelt hat. White hat den Weg für Bands wie The Kills, Yeah Yeah Yeahs und Deap Vally geebnet. Alle von ihnen mit charismatischen Frauen ganz vorne, die den Mix aus Garage, Blues, Fuzz Rock und Riot Grrrl Punk zelebrieren. Ein Gebiet, auf dem kürzlich eine aufregende neue Band ihren rostigen Van abgestellt hat: Velvet Two Stripes.

Endlich eine europäische Band, bereit, mit den Großen der Szene zu konkurrieren, die Jungs in ihrer Garage herauszufordern und dabei zu beweisen, dass junge Frauen sehr wohl ein Gespür für echten Blues haben. Ihr aktuelles Album "No Spell For Moving Water" erscheint am 6. Oktober 2023 und wurde in Vancouver, WA aufgenommen. Für den passenden Klang sind zwei Koryphäen der Rockszene verantwortlich: Vance Powell (Mixing, u.a. The White Stripes, Buddy Guy) und Pete Lyman (Mastering, u.a. Tom Waits, Weezer). 

Wie geht's weiter? Immer voran, immer in Bewegung bleiben, verbündet zu dritt. Sophie, Sara und Franca sagen: „Die Musik bleibt das Wichtigste. Wir müssen keinen Trends entsprechen, wir müssen niemandem gefallen, nur uns selbst.“

Für Fans von:
The Kills, Deap Vally, The Dead Weather, The White Stripes, Sunflower Bean, Bass Drum Of Death, The Picturebooks, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

little league shows & trusty chords agency prsnt:

EADES (indie-rock, uk) + tba.

eadesband.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/eades_music 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. pre-sale tickets available --> vvk.link/3gjl5sg  

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Combining the creative values of Wilco, Sonic Youth and Sparklehorse with the immediacy of The Velvet Underground and The Clash. Eades have adapted and evolved over the last couple of years - continually touring around the UK, as well as over the shores into Europe. Finely poised between indie rock and alternative 90’s. Their tight self-produced sound is glued together by the songwriting and vocal swapping partnership of Harry Jordan and Tom O’Reilly. The story-telling approach of their writing has crystallised into a winning calling-card.

This ‘build it and they will come’ approach has already seen enviable successes. Photoshoots with iconic photographer Rankin for HUNGER, shout outs from The Guardian, live sessions at Abbey Road Studios, and stand-out sets at Left Of The Dial and The Great Escape, amongst other tastemaker festivals, mark the band out as serious contenders.

No longer green to the industry - and working on their own terms - Eades are putting theory into practice. Comfortable in their own skin, and taking the wins as they come, there’s no lack of ambition to take their riveting concoctions to the masses. All of this is beholden to a quietly confident maturation that speaks to a band in complete control.

Pure Adult is an experimental rock band from Brooklyn, NY. Originally a solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Snyder, Pure Adult later expanded to be a collaboration between him and contemporary dancer and visual artist Bianca Abarca. They have toured internationally with Gilla Band, Mdou Moctar, Bambara and Thank, shared bills with A Place To Bury Strangers and Mclusky as well as headlining their own shows in both the US and UK.
In 2023, they released their first LP, II, on Fat Cat Records, two years after self-releasing their first EP, I.

“Pungent chaos that serves no pomp, instead it throws around dark innuendo like a rag doll to the cadence of fury and fucking. The best album I’ve heard in ages. The best band you haven’t seen. Go dig, it’s beautiful at its worst.” - Joe Talbot, IDLES

“Blown-out, hyperactive, aggressive, and danceable rock informed by punk and post-punk.” – Brooklyn Vegan

Cassels are a band of two brothers; Jim and Loz Beck. They make, in their own words, ‘music for misanthropes and malcontents’. This descriptor is as fitting as any, given the music itself is so hard to pin down.

At times pummeling and abrasive, at others delicate and tender – often within the same song – theirs is a sound which defies genre labels. It’s rare to find a band who sound only like themselves, especially one with just two instruments, but Cassels are just that.

The brothers began playing music together in their remote countryside bedroom long before their voices broke. Here, away from the infectious spirit of music scenes and trends, they stumbled upon the quirks and idiosyncrasies which would become Cassels.

Their bond (and band) was solidified in the UK underground. Successive albums and tours have taken them further afield. They’ve racked up shows with the likes of IDLES, Unsane, Show Me The Body, Brutus and Car Seat Headrest, as well as a string of festival appearances. They are now a formidable live force, with numerous sold out headline shows across the UK and Europe under their belts.

beav boloney & little league shows prsnt:

MILK TV (art-punk, bel) + tba.

milktv.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/milk.tv.band 

more infos very soon!

doors 19h, show starts 20h. presale available at --> https://vvk.link/3jl0ms0 

more infos very soon!

presale tix available at ---> https://vvk.link/3i7pxw0 

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puschen & little league shows prsnt:

RATS ON RAFTS (post-punk/wave/indie, nl) + tba.
ratsonrafts.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/ratsonrafts 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets for the concert at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3fsfsls

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Currently preparing for the release of their fourth album set for release in 2025, RATS ON RAFTS’ new single ‘Hibernation’ is a rain-soaked lament to nature’s battered mortality, a monochrome snapshot of the landscape played out in beautiful cold wave delay.  

Finding joy in self-isolation, “I noticed that I could feel really comfortable with songs that can feel really heavy and isolated,” says frontman David Fagan “ If you listen to a Joy Division record for example, for a lot of people they’re really downcast. But for some people it’s like stepping into a really warm bath, because you can really identify with that music. I think that’s also what’s going on with ‘Hibernation’. I could identify with the coldness of the atmosphere, and that languid feeling of that song.”  

Following 2021’s exceptional ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3’ with its plagues, dreams, modal guitars, and mesmerising mantras, new single ‘Hibernation’ descends further into a brooding wasteland.

“I think this song really is a good example of what our new record sounds like. Slowing everything down as much as possible gives it a lot of space. The sound of the Soundcraft 1S mixing desk we used to record the album, close to the version Lee Perry used to mix his famous black ark records, works really well for the dub side of the song but also the doom side. This song and the record in general are not romanticizing this “darkness” as much as accepting it’s part of our persona/character.”

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 puschen & little league shows prsnt:

NAP EYES / indie-rock, can
napeyes.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/napeyes 

& NAIVE SET / indie-pop, nl
naiveset.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/naiveset 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3gbb8hc 

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NAP EYES’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since Snapshot of a Beginner. The Neon Gate reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations, self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality, video games), but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and longform improvisational composition (resulting in their most discursive, deconstructed, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative and lyric formality (including adaptations of thorny poems by Alexander Pushkin and W. B. Yeats), imparting the sense that Nap Eyes have transmuted, as has their understanding of what a song is, what it can do, where it might go.

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NAIVE SET is an Amsterdam-based band that, for more than 10-years, has taken a loose approach to detailed guitar pop, making songs both easy on the ears and pleasing on repeat. In their three previous full-lengths and one EP, the band weaved together hazy and wavy with bright and shiny, channeling guitar-pop classics without being defined by them.
 
Dubbed “smart, highly catchy indiepop,” by VPRO 3voor12 and “classic-indie artisans” by MOJO, Naive Set is back in 2024, releasing stellar new material (compared to “silver crystal” by the Volkskrant) with the Amsterdam-based label AT EASE. Their full length, In Air Quotes, is out October 18th.
 
Recorded at Schenk Studio, Amsterdam, then mixed in Melbourne by Mikey Young, the Australian producer of bands like Dick Diver, Total Control, and Twerps.
 
RIYL: Lewsberg, Nap Eyes, Cate le Bon, Elvis Costello, The Feelies, Chad VanGaalen, A. Savage, Ultimate Painting

Tickets: https://vvk.link/3isk428

Ceschi is a genre-blurring force in indie music and founder of Fake Four Inc.
His blend of hip-hop, punk, and folk, paired with raw, introspective lyrics, has made him a mainstay for listeners seeking something honest. With albums like The One Man Band Broke Up and Sad, Fat Luck, Ceschi has championed a fiercely independent music scene.

Since 2021, he’s channeled his restless creativity into Codefendants, a project with bandmates Sam King (Get Dead) and Fat Mike (NOFX), mixing punk grit with rap’s edge to tackle social and political issues. Ceschi just released his last solo album, Bring Us the Head of Francisco False (Part 2) and is currently touring the U.S. before he will leave for a final European tour in June 2025 with his longtime companion and legendary Canadian producer Factor Chandelier - one last chapter in his uncompromising musical journey.