Knockdown Center Announces First Two Outline Festivals of 2025
Michael Rother Plays Neu! and Harmonia, Thurston Moore, HTRK, Eiko Ishibashi on March 30th
Explosions In The Sky, múm, Mabe Fratti, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, upsammy, Diles Que No Me Maten on April 12th
Tickets Available at 12pm EST on December 17th
Today, Knockdown Center announces its first two Outline festivals of 2025. Exclusive, experimental and eclectic as ever, the venue's flagship series will begin its fifth year by furthering its commitment to highly inspired, heavily international celebrations of independent music. With a lineup of artists spanning four continents, Germany's Michael Rother is set to headline the Main Hall on Sunday, March 30th, presenting the pivotal work of Neu! and Harmonia. The rest of the night will include sets from post-punk pioneer Thurston Moore, Australian post-punk duo HTRK, and Japanese singer, songwriter and singular composer Eiko Ishibashi.
Then, on Saturday, April 12th, Outline widens its focus to a sprawling showcase of avant-garde and alternative, instrumental and IDM, pop and psychedelic. Across two stages, performances will come from Austin's beloved post-rock quartet, Explosions In The Sky, Icelandic band múm, Guatemalan-born, Mexico City-based cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti, Philadelphia shoegazers They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Dutch producer and innovator upsammy, and CDMX's no wave and krautrock-inspired group, Diles Que No Me Maten.
Tickets to Outline's March 30th event are available HERE, and tickets for April 12th are available HERE, both starting at 12pm EST on Tuesday, December 17th
Throughout 2024, Outline spotlighted different genres and disparate regions, continually evolving with every edition: from the seismic sounds of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Alan Sparhawk, Marina Herlop and Maria BC, to hard rock and metal from The Armed, King Woman, Chat Pile, Cloakroom, Ragana and Couch Slut, to a rapturous finale featuring Yaeji, Sofia Kourtesis, Ela Minus, Nourished by Time and Malibu. Never the same, but always curated and designed to bring out the best in the artists and audience, each new iteration will keep pushing the limits of creativity, and elevating the idea of what a venue and festival should be in 2025. In the meantime, revisit memorable moments from recent events HERE.
Outline ushers in a busy festival season for Knockdown Center next year, followed by the first-ever C2C Festival NYC on May 9, the return of WIRE Festival from May 16-18, and so much more to be announced soon.
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About Knockdown Center
Featuring programming of diverse formats and media, Knockdown Center aims to create a radically cross-disciplinary environment. The particularity of our architectural environment and history leads us to gravitate toward projects that demonstrate a sensitive reactivity to site and environment. This 50,000 square-foot building has seen continuous use for more than 100 years: first as the Gleason-Tiebout glass factory, then as Manhattan Door factory. It is named for the Knock-Down door frame that was invented here in 1956 by Samuel Sklar and remains an industry standard to this day. The frame could be shipped in pieces — or "knocked down" — and installed into existing walls, revolutionizing the speed and efficiency of building construction. The factory has since remained in the Sklar family and is again a site for innovation. Having undergone a renovation that is equal parts preservationist and state of the art, Knockdown Center now produces and hosts cultural events and exhibitions that respond to its unique architecture and dimensions.
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