2021

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WIR FÜR UKRAINE

Together with the Kleine Zeitung and in cooperation with Caritas, the Styrian Sounds Festival is supporting aid for the people of Ukraine! Donation drives on site on all three festival days! #westandwithukraine

CARI CARI (THU)

Rolling Stone calls Cari Cari the most important live discovery of the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Alexander Köck and Stephanie Widmer – the latter with roots in the Mürztal – made it to number 6 of Europe's most booked newcomers and are regarded worldwide as one of the most exciting new discoveries.

NEU: MAVI PHOENIX (FRI)

„Marlon“ Album Release Show! Marlene Nader – that was then. Since 2019 Mavi Phoenix has lived as a man; in private life the artist goes by Marlon. And that's exactly what the new, second album is called.

NEU: YUKNO (SAT)

„Im Stream der Zeit“ Album Release Show! Yukno are the brothers Georg and Nikolaus from Styria. Yukno create a sound charged with pop elements, electronics and lyrical finesse, forming a danceable whole.

ONK LOU (SAT)

With Styrian Thomas Gieferl (Avec) on drums, Onk Lou presents his second album, and from the very first note it's clear: the man is an incredible talent. He sounds as if Casper had been given the vocal range of Justin Timberlake and equipped with the guitar skills of Andy McKee.

SHARKTANK (THU)

It's truly amazing: not even a year after the very first meeting of Weiz rapper „Mile“ Michael Lechner with Katrin Paucz and Marco Kleebauer, the three of them are on European stages as SHARKTANK with their debut album, including radio airplay and millions of streams.

GNACKWATSCHN (FRI)

The next Gnackwatschn lands! For over ten years, these passionate musicians have been rebelling with joie de vivre, dialect, backbone and an audible serenity against everything that should rub us the wrong way in the 21st century.

MAIA ONDA (FRI)

Young artist Maia Onda will soon be an insider tip no more, because the musician fascinates with her versatility. Besides writing lyrics and composing, she likes to take musical arrangements into her own hands too, creating works that stay in your head.

GRAND HOTEL SCHILLING (FRI)

Where do I come from, where am I going, is it really that late already, and above all: what now? Grand Hotel Schilling's lyrics raise questions, and yet you feel understood.

VIDA NOA (FRI)

Indie alternative pop artist Vida Noa left her footprints in the Austrian music scene five years ago, when her first singles immediately climbed to the top of the Soundportal charts.

MUSIKCAFE PRENNER (SAT)

The 5 pop rockers of Musikcafe Prenner have often impressively proven at festival appearances and countless club gigs that they are a passionate and convincing live band.

KLUBNACHT: ELEKTRO GUZZI (SAT)

Hotspot National: In one stroke, Elektro Guzzi deliver one of the most fascinating takes on live techno and at the same time one of the biggest leaps of innovation for the concept of the “band” in recent years. Armed with just guitar, bass and drums, they assemble a direct, physical overall sound.

GOOD WILSON (THU)

With a slightly melancholic mood as travel provisions, the self-titled debut album „GoodWilson“ is a dreamy walk in the first warm rays of spring sunshine, marked by lightness, absent-mindedness and good-natured naivety.

SALÒ (FRI)

Graz native SALÒ makes music for dog petters, work refusers and everyone else who still has feelings. The whole thing sounds like a wild mix of German post-wave, pop and punk.

CAFE DRECHSLER – 20 Jahre Anniversary Show (THU)

One of the most legendary live bands around Styrian veteran Alex Deutsch (Anna F., EAV, Muthspiel) and at the same time one of the most important acts of acoustic club music from Austria celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021: Café Drechsler!

BANKI MOON (SAT)

Album release show: Manchester – Hamburg – Graz. If you go on a journey, you have a story to tell… or make a whole album about it. We boys of BANKI MOON have set out on a journey. Back to the 90s. Back to our musical roots. And headfirst back into our youth.

Hello Slovenia: FREEKIND (SAT)

Be free. Be kind. This is the philosophy of Austrian-based duo, freekind.. The soulful group is composed of Croatian pianist and vocalist Sara Ester Gredelj and Slovenian drummer Nina Korošak-Serčič. Their songs carry a strong message of love and hope, complemented by R&B and jazz grooves.

VELVET WASTED (THU)

Velvet Wasted is a band from Austria that combines the roots of rock and soul with modern touches of indie and pop. With their music, the four from Graz stand for human and honest emotions, found in the interplay of soft and rough tones.

SURICATES (FRI)

SURICATES were founded by four Rock’n’Roll- and Music-Lovers in 2009. From the point of their founding on one thing was clear – those musicians wanted to make Rock-Music, from start to finish, no excuses, nothing else.

ANNA ABSOLUT (THU)

Somewhere between punk and indie. Where fewer and fewer bands take a stand through the megaphone of music, we remain the counterpoint. With an awareness of nuance. And a wink.

KLUBNACHT: MOET (SAT)

Electronic music. Musically located between pop and techno.

LOVE GOD CHAOS (SAT)

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW Euphoric, danceable, high-energy indie rock from the great Love God Chaos. And a brand-new album in their luggage too!

HUME (SAT)

With a mix of subtle pop numbers with slight jazz influences and groovy, slightly funky songs built around the incomparable voice of Barbara Gieferl, Hume finds its own sound and offers a new and unique form of music.

MODEST ODA (THU)

The origin lies in alternative rock in 2010. Guitar and bass are now replaced by two synthesizers, the drum kit gives way to a drum machine. The voice, layered with digital harmonies, is reshaped through the interplay of different effects.

KOBRAKSINO (SAT)

Very few bands let you feel with the first musical breath that their creative lungs have volume for a whole tornado. The Graz group Kobrakasino, founded in 2017, belongs to this minority.

CHRIS MAGERL & THE BURNING FLAGS (FRI)

Album release show! Somewhere between Frank Turner, Spanish Love Songs and The Gaslight Anthem they find a sound that hardly exists in this country. Sometimes punky, sometimes poppier – then totally calm and heartfelt again, only to grin and smash teeth-first into the kerb the next moment.

PANDORAS KLEINE SCHWESTER (SAT)

What happens when you lock a songwriter and a soprano together with a wedding musician, a punk drummer and a universal string artist on bass in a Graz cellar? They open Pandora's box and release songs full of joy with a dash of wormwood into the world.

LOVE A.M. (THU)

We make dreamy Cute-Punk

KLUBNACHT: MONIQUE FESSL (SAT)

KLOUDNACHT: SOURCE 45 (FRI)

Hard beats, aggressive style mixed with driving new school elements.

KLOUDNACHT: ILLPOWER (FRI)

A mix of old school with snappy trap influences. And a new EP on the way.

OPENING: SEISMO’S MOVIE NIGHT (THU)

With Seismo’s Movie Night, Markus Graf and his band blur the lines between dream and reality in a densely packed soundscape. Picturesque sounds meet a well-thought-out interplay of loud and quiet.

KLOUDNACHT: BJOVAN (FRI)

KLOUDNACHT: DJ SWAY (FRI)

KLOUDNACHT: MXTTXM (FRI)

…. MANY MORE TO COME