Outline Festival Announces Fourth & Final Event of 2025
Featuring Erika de Casier, Smerz, Clara La San, Fine, urika's bedroom on October 24th
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Summer Edition Takes Place July 12th with Jockstrap, Kenny Mason, Jane Remover, HiTech, dazegxd, Kassie Krut, Celebrating Five Years of Knockdown Center's Flagship Series
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Today, Knockdown Center announces its fourth Outline Festival of 2025, taking place on Friday, October 24th. Celebrating its fifth anniversary as New York City's most distinct and experimental showcase of independent music, this year's final installment will feature an international and iconoclastic lineup of pop and R&B pathbreakers, including a headline set from Denmark's Erika de Casier, as well as performances from Norway's Smerz, UK's Clara La San, Denmark's Fine and LA's urika's bedroom. Like every new edition of Outline, the convergence of artists is one that fans will only ever experience at Knockdown Center.
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Before October, Outline Festival will also present its much-anticipated summer edition on Saturday, July 12th. Across two stages in the venue's Main Hall and outdoor Ruins, the night will highlight the blurring lines and fertile intersections between the next generation of pop, raw electronic music, hip-hop and more, featuring Jockstrap, Kenny Mason, Jane Remover, HiTech, dazegxd and Kassie Krut.
Throughout 2025, Outline Festival is further expanding its commitment to an inspired and global curation of the moment's most groundbreaking performers and enduring legends. Having been described as "catnip for adventurous listeners" (The New York Times), Outline brings out the best in both its artists and audience, as each iteration continues to push the limits of creativity, and elevates the idea of what a venue and festival can and should be.
Earlier this spring, Knockdown Center began Outline's five-year anniversary with back-to-back weekends of post-punk, psychedelia, avant-garde and alternative music from some of the best to ever to it: Michael Rother, Thurston Moore, HTRK, Eiko Ishibashi in March, then Explosions In The Sky, múm, Mabe Fratti, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, upsammy, Diles Que No Me Maten in April. Revisit more of the memorable moments from recent Outline events here.
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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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