Underground, upcoming, established or a class of its own: the Sonic City line-up brings together an inspiring and exhilarating bunch of bands.
Curated by Dirty Three: Alex Rex, Bleak Squad, Caroline No, Charles Hayward, Christina Carter, Dirty Three, Jess Ribeiro, Maddison Windfarm, Maxine Funke, Zoh Amba
Curated by Marie Davidson: .618, Curses LIVE, Feu St-Antoine, goat (JP), Leo Vincent, Lord Spikeheart, Marie Davidson LIVE with Nick Verstand, Natasha Pirard, Paranoid London
Curated by Sonic City: Anna von Hausswolff, Billy Fuller, DIIV, Dry Cleaning, Elias Rønnenfelt, Juana Molina, keiyaA, Loma, Louis Ottley, Mandy, Indiana, Melt-Banana, Pigeon, PISS, PVA, Rosie Stuart, The Kind
Braiding the harshness of shoegaze and grunge with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Curated by Sonic City.
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Expansive, organ-driven music that blends dark, ritualistic atmospheres with experimental and emotional intensity. Curated by Sonic City.
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A brutal, hypnotic collision of industrial noise, fractured club rhythms, and cathartic art-punk intensity. Curated by Sonic City.
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Bringing post-rock textures and punk energy to intricate songs. Curated by Dirty Three.
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Looping, minimalist sound worlds where guitar, voice, and texture blur into hypnotic repetition. Curated by Sonic City.
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A restless blend of dark rock, haunted folk, and bruised poetry, drifting between intimacy and chaos. Curated by Sonic City.
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A hurricane of precision and chaos where pop fragments, noise, and punk collide into a glittering, hyperactive storm. Curated by Sonic City.
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Instrumental trio whose raw, cinematic sound blends post-rock, folk, and classical elements into deeply emotional, wordless music driven by expressive violin and improvisation. Landmarks in experimental rock. Curated by Dirty Three.
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Cosmic exploration. Spiritual transformation. Unbridled spontaneity. Curated by Sonic City.
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A shape-shifting force of folk-noir, crafting songs that haunt, heal and mesmerise. Curated by Dirty Three.
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Beak> founding member and bassist making kosmische-tinged, bass-driven electronica, blending motorik grooves, hauntological textures and hypnotic, off-kilter pop. Curated by Sonic City.
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Noir-rock constellation of Australian art-rock legends. Curated by Dirty Three.
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Dunedin (New-Zealand)-based avant-garde musician penning hushed stories of the mundane and magical moments in everyday life. Curated by Dirty Three.
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Lo-fi folk sketches, wandering melodies, and anti-folk oddities. Curated by Dirty Three.
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High energy, radically inclusive punk – inspired by personal fracture and political anger. Curated by Sonic City.
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Blending free improvisation, and experimental folk into a raw, intuitive and deeply expressive sound. Curated by Dirty Three.
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A cinematic storm of shimmering guitars, towering crescendos, and raw vocals cutting through walls of fuzz and reverb. Curated by Sonic City.
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A transgressive force in dance music, blending organic electronics with sharp, introspective storytelling, putting the pitfalls of club culture, Big Tech and her own fractured identity under a withering satirical lens. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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Berlin-based musicians/DJs riding the next wave acid halo into the sun-shattered dusk. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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Vancouver punk tempest—fusing noise, poetry, and performance into a fierce collage where the personal and political collide and unravel. Curated by Sonic City.
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A genre-blending, emotionally raw exploration of identity, desire, and inner life, carried by ethereal vocals and richly layered, experimental soundscapes. Curated by Sonic City.
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High-energy, hypnotic, and constantly pushing club culture forward. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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Boundary-pushing saxophonist-turned-folk songwriter whose deeply spiritual music fuses avant-garde intensity with raw, uplifting emotion. Curated by Dirty Three.
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African experimental metal with high-energy live performances ablaze with raw intensity. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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Delicate, atmospheric songs where distance, nature, and human fragility drift together into something strangely calm and comforting. Curated by Sonic City.
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Where distant birdsong, field-recorded winds, and soaring, fragile vocals drift together. Curated by Sonic City.
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One half of Essaie Pas, stepping out solo with a richly detailed, wordless sonic masterclass. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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Experimental electronic musician whose sound moves through emotive translation and intuitive play. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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Sound as a conduit for ancestral memory and diasporic storytelling, where Afro symbolism, exile and terrain intertwine. Curated by Marie Davidson.
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