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SOBER
+ I-RO, JP Enfant, Julia Mira
Parallel
Sun 11 Jan
Queer, Techno
+ I-RO, JP Enfant, Julia Mira
SOBER is an Amsterdam-based, queer-led techno party. It was started by a group of techno lovers who were in need of a space to experiment, without the distraction of substances. The party proves that sober clubbing can be fun, exciting, sexy, and something to look forward to.
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Riotgrrrl Sunday! With Honey Blonde
+ Pulletje
Het Pand
Sun 11 Jan
Riotgrrrl, Punk, Indie, Ska
+ Pulletje
Honey Blonde is a pink-punk band from Utrecht. Inspired by the new wave of the riot grrrl movement, this feminist foursome creates no-nonsense girl punk with a sweet edge. Honey Blonde draws inspiration from fear of commitment, annoying men, and hangovers. With a danceable blend of punk and pop with plenty of energy, Honey Blonde aims to show that punk can also be vulnerable and joyful
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Sonic and Visual Immersion #3
+ Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes feat. tschnz, Weiyan Low with Mar Fu Qi
Popradar
Sun 11 Jan
Audiovisual, Ambient, Dance performance, Drone, Immersive, Live electronics
+ Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes feat. tschnz, Weiyan Low with Mar Fu Qi
Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes hosts an evening of immersive and contemplative audio-visual performances at the chapel space in Popradar - a wide yet intimate venue particularly suited to focused listening and visual immersion. Their performance featurs visual artist Jens W. Schindel, aka tschnz, and the opening act of Weiyan Low with Mar Fu Qi.
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Holograph "Teeth" EP Release
+ Lifeless Past
Cinetol
Thu 15 Jan
Post punk, Darkwave, Goth, New wave
+ Lifeless Past
Founded in 2020, the poppy darkwave band Holograph has emerged and transformed into multiple guises. After leaving their hometown of Cape Town, South Africa, the now Amsterdam-based collective has quietly crept through the shadows to re-emerge as the goth-wave kings and queens of the 22nd century.
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Doka Culture
+ Live Coding Sessions #9
Doka
Thu 15 Jan
Live coding, Experimental, Live electronics
+ Live Coding Sessions #9
This edition of Live Coding Sessions dives into embodiment, we explore how the body can become an active, expressive force in live coding. Transforming movement, gesture, and physical presence into sound, visuals, and creative possibilities. The body not just as a tool but as a collaborator, shaping the performance through wearables, motion, and audience interaction.
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Noise Noise Noise 2
+ cDj Atzu, Earth Logg, penn-ack, Caine, Blankferret & VJ Shlomo
De Tanker
Fri 16 Jan
Industrial, Techno
+ cDj Atzu, Earth Logg, penn-ack, Caine, Blankferret & VJ Shlomo
For this second edition of Noise Noise Noise we have Earth logoff coming over from Berlin. Earth Logg consists of Sanaa on sticks, and Rbrt on stones, playing analog funny industrial body music. penn-ack you might know from videoglitching and tekno parties, plays raw freaked stuff. Caine will perform weirdness combining harsh noise with the eastern tunes and beats, and later in the night Dj Atzu will spin queer underground dance tunes, known from FRXCTOSE parties.
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Textures
+ jouko + pittori locali + loma doom
Cinetol
Fri 16 Jan
Electronic, Experimental
+ jouko + pittori locali + loma doom
Textures is a new event series showcasing groundbreaking electronic music from Amsterdam. After a successful first edition in 2025, Textures returns with a new triple bill of Amsterdam-based artists that will immerse you in deep layers of ambient textures, soundscapes, field recordings, and live instruments.
Line up: Jouko / Pittori Locali / Loma Doom - Entry €15,25, doors 20:30
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Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado play SUICIDE
Slachthuis
Sat 17 Jan
Punk, Electronic
In the 1970s, the New York duo Suicide turned the music world upside down with their minimalist synths, hard rhythms, and intense, often confrontational performances. Lydia Lunch, known from the New York No Wave scene, and French artist Marc Hurtado are inspired by the idiosyncratic style of the legendary 1970s duo and will bring their tribute to Suicide to Slachthuis
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SHAKE-OUT Party
+ The Airheads + Psycho in Mong Kok + DJ!
De Nieuwe Anita
Sat 17 Jan
Punk rock, Psychedelic
+ The Airheads + Psycho in Mong Kok + DJ!
SHAKE-OUT Party: The Airheads + Psycho in Mong Kok
Double Bill:
21:05 – 21:55 • Psycho in Mongkok (International Psych/Garage band)
22:10 – 23:00 • Airheads (New Punk-Rock band from Amsterdam)
DJ Charley spinning vinyl: 60s–80s shake-out tunes!
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Automatic Noise Festival
+ Part Garden (NL), Maquillage (BE), Bloom Effect (CA), Healees (FR), DJ Yogi (SCO), and DJ Dragnet (NL).
Cinetol
Fri 23 Jan
Shoegaze, Dreampop, Post punk, Indie
+ Part Garden (NL), Maquillage (BE), Bloom Effect (CA), Healees (FR), DJ Yogi (SCO), and DJ Dragnet (NL).
The Automatic Noise Festival returns to Amsterdam on January 23 and 24, 2026, for its sixth edition at Cinetol. For two evenings, the festival celebrates shoegaze and dreampop, marking the conclusion of the year-long celebration of 20 years of Automatic Music.
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Class of 2026
+ C’est Qui?, plonki, Grote Geelstaart,
Ekko
Fri 23 Jan
Garage punk, Psychedelic, Noise rock
+ C’est Qui?, plonki, Grote Geelstaart,
NEW DUTCH TALENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT WITH TWO SHOWS
Taking three Dutch talents under our wing at the beginning of the year and following them for a whole year? Class of 2026 is doing it. We've booked two shows with three up-and-coming Dutch acts at once, one in January and one in December, so we can show them how far they've come at the end of the year. We're confident they'll go far. Are you too? Get a combo ticket for both shows now.
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Kadavergraver, Nondescriptuser & Timur Abbiasov
Skek
Sat 24 Jan
Experimental electronics, Illbient, Electro, Glitch, Postmortempop
Saturday 24-01 hosted at @skekamsterdam Amsterdam’s gnarliest electronic mutants meet a full-blast visual trip. No genres, just raw pressure and melting visuals.
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Fix Everything (treurset)
+ Emotional Support Act
Café de With
Fri 30 Jan
Experimental rock, Alternative rock, Post punk, Ambient, Treur,
+ Emotional Support Act
‘Our saddest songs, played extra morosely’
For this special show, to suit your winter depression, we will play only our most morose, gutpunching, gloomy songs, and extra extra dark funky sad versions of other tunes. Come, weep, commiserate. Find solace.
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Clubnacht met punk
w/ Cristel Ball, DJ Sjaak, Spurn
Ekko
Fri 30 Jan
Punk
w/ Cristel Ball, DJ Sjaak, Spurn
For lovers of: Punk, punk, punk. We dive into the night with everything that rubs, creaks and bounces. Clubnight with punk is a club night with punk of all kinds and sizes: from egg punk, hardcore punk and garage punk to postpunk. Mosh or be moshed. Eat or be eaten. Whatever. You get it, right?
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Earth
+ Nataša Grujović & Steve Moore
Tolhuistuin
Sat 31 Jan
Rock
+ Nataša Grujović & Steve Moore
Earth is an American rock band from Olympia, Washington, around guitarist Dylan Carlson. Since their formation in 1989 the group has been considered a pioneer of the drone metal genre, with the groundbreaking debut 'Earth 2' (1993) as a milestone. Their music balances heavy guitar drones, slow rhythms and minimal compositions that are as hypnotic as they are compelling. Together with drummer Adrienne Davies, Carlson continues to renew Earth's sound.
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The Dream Syndicate
Tivoli
Tue 3 Feb
Alternative rock
The American alternative rock band The Dream Syndicate plays their second album Medicine Show (1984) in its entirety! The Dream Syndicate was/is a major name in the so-called Paisley Underground, the combination of sixties psychedelia with post-punk. Medicine Show is the successor to their debut The Days Of Wine And Roses (1982) and the favorite of frontman Steve Wynn – Peter Buck (R.E.M.) even calls the album 'an Exile On Main St. of the eighties, the blood drips from every note.
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ENTRY (US)
+ ODD MAN OUT (US) + BRAVE OUT (JP) + ANGSTMÄLER
OCCII
Wed 4 Feb
Hardcore, Punk
+ ODD MAN OUT (US) + BRAVE OUT (JP) + ANGSTMÄLER
Entry is a hardcore punk band from Los Angeles known for their ferocious energy, raw intensity, and uncompromising sound. After cutting their teeth in the DIY scene with self-released cassettes and relentless local shows, they dropped their debut 7″ _No Relief_ in 2017. Their breakout LP _Detriment_ followed in 2020 on Southern Lord Records , establishing their core lineup and solidifying their reputation for fast, aggressive, and emotionally charged music.
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GHOSTWOMAN
De Helling
Thu 5 Feb
Psychedelic, Garage
Psychedelic garage duo tickles the darkest corners of your soul. Five albums in two and a half years!? What in the King Gizzard? GHOSTWOMAN mastermind Evan Uschenko is one of the most productive musicians of his time. And not only that: his music is damn good too. Crackling lo-fi garage rock, dripping with reverb - best consumed in a sweaty basement, or in a black box on Rotsoord of course.
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GRAUZONE FESTIVAL
Paard
Fri 6 Feb
Post punk, Alternative
Grauzone Festival returns to The Hague from February 6th to 8th, 2026, with a free opening night on Thursday, February 5th. With PAARD as its main venue, the festival will expand across several iconic locations in the city center, transforming The Hague into a vibrant playground for sound, art, and experimentation.
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DARK ENTRIES
GOTH, POST PUNK, DARKWAVE, COLDWAVE, INDUSTRIAL, DEATH ROCK, EBM, GOTHIC ROCK, DARK AMBIENT, WITCH HOUSE, BLACK METAL, DOOM GAZE...
GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE
PUNK, HARDCORE, GARGE PUNK, D-BEAT, EGG PUNK, SYNTH PUNK, POST HARDCORE, OI!, CRUST PUNK, ART PUNK, THRASH, GRINDCORE, SPEED METAL...
IN THE FIELD
EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, PERFORMANCE ART, AUDIO VISUAL, NOISE, AVANT GARDE, NO WAVE, DRONE, FREE JAZZ, IDM, EMMERSIVE, MULTI MEDIA, ALT THEATRE...
ELECTRIC DREAMS
SYNTH WAVE, ELECTRO, MODULAR SYNTH, LIVE ELECTRONICS, CHILL WAVE, VAPOR WAVE, ELECTRO CLASH, SYNTH POP...
LAST IN THE CLUB
DRUM AND BASS, JUNGLE, BREAK BEAT, ACID HOUSE, TECHNO, TECH HOUSE, EDM, DUBSTEP, HOUSE, UK GARAGE, FUTURE BASS...
ITS BIGGER THAN...
HIP HOP, GRIME, RAP, UK HIP HOP, TRAP, BOOM BAP, DRILL, RAP ROCK, ALT R&B, NEO SOUL, LOFI HIP HOP, AFROBEAT, AMAPIANO, EMO RAP, GRAFFITI ART...
SONIC REDUCERS
ROCK AND ROLL, ROCK, GARAGE ROCK, SURF, 60'S GARAGE, GLAM ROCK, ALT ROCK, BLUES, MATH ROCK, ROCKABILLY, POP PUNK, PROG ROCK...
WHEN THE SUN HITS
SHOEGAZE, NEW WAVE, INDIE, DREAM POP, , INDIE FOLK, ART POP, FOLKTRONICA, INDIE ROCK, BEDROOM POP, PSYCHEDELIC FOLK, INDIE DANCE...
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