Live music in July & August

Editor Steffen Kolberg

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It's summer, it's the European Championships. Most concert venues are quiet. But there's still plenty to feast your ears on.

Blonde redhead

Blonde Redhead are not playing their concert in the Rote Fabrik concert hall, but right by the lake. And there is hardly a better idea than staring into the sunset to the soft sounds of this legendary dream pop band.

Wednesday, 02.07. | Rote Fabrik

Rote Fabrik

Blonde redhead

Blonde Redhead's music has evolved over the decades, shifting from abrasive rock to refined art-pop while maintaining a unique sonic identity marked by a ...

Future Islands

Melancholic, danceable synthpop is the speciality of US band Future Islands. What makes the group so unmistakable are the warm, barking vocals of frontman Samuel T. Herring and his powerful stage presence. And a sound that becomes more and more timeless with every year of the band's 20-year history.

Monday, 07 July | X-Tra

Refused

"Refused Are Fucking Dead" was the name of a documentary film that was released in 2006. It told the story of the Swedish hardcore band's rise to world fame and their abrupt end in grainy images. But as is the case with old musicians who can't let it go, there was a reunion later on. Now, after the re-release of their groundbreaking album "The Shape Of Punk To Come", it's "Refused Are Fucking Dead" again. For good this time?

Friday, 11 July | X-Tra

Lethargy Festival

As every year, the 2025 Lethargy Festival can be recommended without reservation. This year's highlights: the collaboration between the two self-taught exceptional musicians Matthew Herbert and Momoko Gill, the dance veterans Leftfield and the Guatemalan-Swiss troublemaker Baby Volcano.

Thursday, 7 to Sunday, 10 August | Rote Fabrik

Suuns

If it didn't sound so much like YouTube seminars and misunderstood masculinity, you could describe Suuns' music as crypto-pop. Because somehow it is pop, with sugary sweet harmonies here and there. But it's also cryptic, intricate and shifted, with disharmonies here and there. Be that as it may, this Canadian band is an experience live.

Friday, 8 August | Bogen F

Attwenger

Once again, something that only Austria can produce: Attwenger are a duo who have been bringing together dialect, accordion, hip-hop and drum'n'bass rhythms and a punk rock attitude for more than thirty years. An original that you should definitely see live.

Friday, 15 August | Bogen F

Published from Steffen Kolberg on June 26, 2025.

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