Veranstaltungen
doors 19:00 - show 20:00
dq agency & little league shows prsnt:
HACHIKU / indie-pop, aus
hachikumusic.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/hachikumusic
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3i7pxw0
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HACHIKU is the brainchild of German-Australian producer Anika Ostendorf, who writes and produces worldly indie rock with an alt-pop appeal alongside band members Jessie Warren (she/her; bass, BVs), Georgia Smith (they/she; guitar, BVs) and Simon Reynolds (he/him - drums). Through the release of their self-recorded and self-mixed EP Hachiku (2017) and critically acclaimed debut LP I’ll Probably Be Asleep (2020), Hachiku has steadily built a loyal global fan base hinged on catchy melodies, shimmering walls of sound, and their praised live performances. They have seen consistent support and acclaim from NPR’s All Songs Considered, Bandcamp, DIY Magazine, Clash Magazine and NME among others, and are continuously invited to support household names around the UK, Europe, U.S. and so-called-Australia including Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher, The Breeders, José González, Snail Mail and more, including festival slots at Iceland Airwaves, SXSW and Melbourne Music Week. Ostendorf is also a frequent collaborator of Jen Cloher’s, co-producing their ARIA, AMP, AIR and Music Victoria-nominated fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me (2023), and has landed syncs in the US including on Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls and Audi’s mysterious 13-minute ‘Led Balloon’ film commercial.
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doors 19h, show 20, after 22h DJs
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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Planlos (Punk/Bln) + Rosa Beton (Postpunk/Bln) + DJ Vossi
Planlos: 1980 gegründet in Ostberlin, 1983 aufgrund staatlicher Repressionen aufgelöst. Seit 2020 wieder aktiv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NRFLGFnazw
Rosa Beton: 1983 von Thomas Wagner (aka Tom Terror) und Mausi als Proberaumprojekt gegründet und dank eines legendären Demo-Tapes republikweit bekannt. Seit 2018 sporadisch live in erweiterter Bandbesetzung mit alten und neuen Hits.
https://rosabeton.bandcamp.com/album/preview-rosa-beton-album-2022
doors 19h - show 20h
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 from 15th december 6pm!
WONK UNIT plays different sets on this 2 days!
WONK UNIT ist eine der vielseitigsten und abwechslungsreichsten Bands, die London im Moment zu bieten hat. 2005 wurden sie von Alex nach Auflösung der Punkband The Flying Medallions ins Leben gerufen.
Punk in England war so tot und langweilig zu der Zeit. Doch mit dem zufälligen Aufeinandertreffen von Alex und zwei sehr talentierten Musikern, Drummer Mez Clough und Gitarrist Gavin Kinch, deren Art zu spielen Alex Songs plötzlich überfrisch erklingen ließen, gab es eine neue Punkrockhoffnung.
Eine in Europa einzigartige Band mit eigenem Sound, eigenem Humor, eigenem Festival und tief verwurzeltem DIY Background. Alex Brindle Johnson ist dabei als Lead Singer, Poet, Skater, Stage Performer und kreativer Motor das Herz der Band, von der nicht wenige behaupten, dass es das derzeit Spannendste sei, was es auf Europas Punkrockbühnen zu sehen gibt.
Tickets on sale from 15th dec 6 pm!!
WONK UNIT ist eine der vielseitigsten und abwechslungsreichsten Bands, die London im Moment zu bieten hat. 2005 wurden sie von Alex nach Auflösung der Punkband The Flying Medallions ins Leben gerufen.
Punk in England war so tot und langweilig zu der Zeit. Doch mit dem zufälligen Aufeinandertreffen von Alex und zwei sehr talentierten Musikern, Drummer Mez Clough und Gitarrist Gavin Kinch, deren Art zu spielen Alex Songs plötzlich überfrisch erklingen ließen, gab es eine neue Punkrockhoffnung.
Eine in Europa einzigartige Band mit eigenem Sound, eigenem Humor, eigenem Festival und tief verwurzeltem DIY Background. Alex Brindle Johnson ist dabei als Lead Singer, Poet, Skater, Stage Performer und kreativer Motor das Herz der Band, von der nicht wenige behaupten, dass es das derzeit Spannendste sei, was es auf Europas Punkrockbühnen zu sehen gibt.
doors 19:00 - show 20:00
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.
Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen
sind ein halbakustisches Nylon-Saiten Trio mit den drei Musikstilen Powerviolence-Folk, Kakophonie und Bindungsangst. Wandergitarren-Punk mit Fuzz und Driver aus Kreuzberg (bei Berlin und Brandenburg).
Apocalypse Vega – Gesang, Gitarre, Driver
Herr Bottrop – Bass, Gesang, Fuzz
Bene Diktator – Drums, Gesang
