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Tickets Available at 12pm ET on Thursday, December 14th: HERE
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First of Four Quarterly Outlines Slated For The Next 12 Months, Following The Venue's Busiest & Highest-Attended Year To Date
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Today, Knockdown Center announces the return of its flagship Outline festival for 2024. Spanning four distinct, quarterly events over the coming year, each installment will further extend the limits of what a venue can be for its artists and audience. At 7pm on Saturday, February 24th, the series begins with a night of seismic post-rock and rich, textural art pop. Headlined by the chamber rock protest music of cult Canadian group Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the festival's Winter 2024 edition will also feature Alan Sparhawkof Low, for his first NYC show since the 2022 passing of Low drummer and vocalist Mimi Parker. The performance comes on the heels of his recent solo debut at Le Guess Who?, where he delivered a "set list of beautiful, obliterating new songs" that "mine the depths of grief" (The Guardian). Additionally, the Outline lineup will include experimental, Barcelona-based composer, vocalist and pianist Marina Herlop, and singular Sacred Bones-backed singer-songwriter Maria BC.
Tickets for Outline's winter 2024 edition are available at 12pm ET this Thursday, December 14th. Find more information HERE
Winter 2024 begins a new chapter for Outline, following three distinct but uniformly thrilling, successful and inventive editions throughout 2023. From a pair of spring shows that brought together leaders of avant-garde electronic music (Matmos, Jlin, Pan Daijing, Meth Math, Golin, Joe Rainey) and an expansive vision of modern jazz (Standing on the Corner, Makaya McCraven, Laraaji, Liv.e), to a surreal, summertime barrage of indie rock, punk, and art pop (Crumb, U.S. Girls, Model/Actriz, Palm, Grace Ives, Pelada, Club Intl), Outline remains "catnip for adventurous listeners" (The New York Times).
While no two Outlines are the same, each is ingeniously curated with the intent to bring out the best in the artists, as well as Knockdown Center's physical design. As much a celebration of cutting-edge music as it is an exhibit for the most unique and architecturally-stunning space in New York City nightlife, Knockdown Center's shifting stages and labyrinthine layout continually transform to enhance and react to each performance. The previous editions have spanned the historic factory floor that now serves as the venue's Main Hall and Atrium, and the century-old concrete Ruins that come alive for spring and summers full of open-air parties and concerts.
Outline is one of several of Knockdown Center's in-house, fully independent festival series. Along with the techno-focused WIRE and the newly-launched RUSH, it helped the venue achieve its busiest and highest-attended year to date, as Knockdown remains the only place in the New York City that is adaptable and artistically-trusted enough to host events as eclectic as Eric Andre's 40th Birthday Party, performances from Jai Paul, James Blake, LCD Soundsystem, Sky Ferreira and Wu-Tang Clan, celebrations such as Bushwig and long-running parties like Horse Meat Disco, all in 2023 alone. Between Outline, the second installment of RUSH, Alkaline Trio, Otoboke Beaver and more that are already on the books for the first quarter, Knockdown Center's 2024 is shaping up to be even bigger.
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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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