BERLIN POST PUNK! A feminist band*s happening is back!

The green T-shirt with the slogan ‘Girls invented punk, not England’ worn by Kim Gordon is surely one of the most memorable outfits in music history. And this slogan is true: the revolutionary and disruptive power of punk should rightly also be called feminist. No other music scene had so many FLINTA people involved, and the entire new wave scene that developed from it has an impressive number of FLINTA artists and bands who took their music in any direction they wanted, sometimes incredibly far away from any rock cliché.

Featured on the timeline: SCHЯOTTI STAЯ OЯCHESTEЯ, Aunt & Las Migrañas

SCHЯOTTI STAЯ OЯCHESTEЯ is bringing back the indie anthems of the noughties amidst the autotune-heavy Schranz of 2026. With an armada of children’s instruments and a 70s home organ, they strum their way into the hearts of their listeners. Under the motto “Covers are rubbish”, the band – dressed in scrapyard outfits – stop at neither The Strokes, Wolfmother nor The Notwist, and also poach from the newer German-language music scene, including Casper and Danger Dan. “Originality is over, from now on we’re just interpreters,” is SCHЯOTTI’s motto, and so with every new song they probe deeper into the wound of the collapsing pop music industry. With line-ups ranging from two to four members and an ever-changing array of salvaged children’s instruments, they tear through and reinterpret the pop repertoire without scruples and with great enthusiasm.

In their live shows, SCHЯOTTI STAЯ ORCHESTEЯ ruthlessly appropriate their musical material and brazenly present it as their own in charming Denglish. In doing so, they achieve the impossible: being a band from Berlin, Las Vegas, Upper Bavaria and New York all at once, which, moreover, has nothing but hits in its repertoire! So the new shit from Berlin is just yesterday’s old shit. With that in mind: GLAM ROCK will never die BUT YOU WILL.

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Aunt is the two-headed entity formed by Dean O’Sullivan and Stella Sesto in 2022, after the dismantling of their previous band, Skinny Downers. Their music exists somewhere between ’70s no wave, ’80s post-punk, and ’90s shoegaze, and is driven by a relentless drum machine that only knows 4/4.

Their uncompromising approach to DIY production and self-releases has, over the years, rewarded them with total anonymity, but also complete artistic freedom, with which, as of today, they still cannot buy bread.

They have released two EPs (Aunt, 2022, and FAAF, 2024). Their first full-length is due to be released in spring 2026.

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Born in Berlin in the midst of the pandemic, Las Migrañas comes as a hurricane of freshness in the post-punk scene with a completely unique combination of latinx-kraut and all the force of spoken word. What translates as The Migraines, converge in distorted South American anthems, seen through the lens of punky Art-rock. Visibly sponsoring gender-nonconformity, the duo delivers an intoxicating performance that displays a colorful and complex portrait of their environment charged with noise and stimuli.

Their sound is composed of a bass that rampages furious and catchy riffs, eclectic rhythm machines and synthesizers that offer truncated and primitive feeling combinations, and voices that are sometimes playful, sometimes roaring. Las Migrañas disguises the complex as simple, the result is hypnotic and danceable. Their appearances are not simply concerts but also performative rituals for the entities of fun.

Doors open at 8:30

This is sound salon @gruenersalon.berlin!
Curated by Pia H

sound salon is financially supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.