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The Beauty of Gemina – music between dark beauty, passionate and touching melodies, and earthy folk. Fantasy and reality on the club stage. The fascination of The Beauty of Gemina lies in the “dark elegance” of the music. In other words: in the charisma of songwriter and singer Michael Sele. […]
German dystopic dance / indie pop project What Are People For?, known for their irresistible groove and absurdist dry humor, will perform for the first time in Bucharest at Control Club. What Are People For? makes the perfect kind of dystopic dance music for our times. Born from a collaboration […]
Canadian rising indie star EKKSTACY, known for fusing post-punk and synth wave, will play for the first time in Romania today at Control Club. Twenty-year-old artist EKKSTACY had already dealt with a lifetime of depression and anxiety before a severe mental health episode at age 17 led him to drug-induced […]
Last week I witnessed another cool gig in Control Club which became one of my favorite places in town; for the 4th time I had the pleasure to see Valerinne together with another cool band, Methadone Skies. Probably two bands unique by their sounds, no vocals just instruments and as […]
Pink Turns Blue needs no introduction for many, but for those who do, they are a post-punk band from Berlin, Germany. Formed in 1985, they were part of the first generation of gothic rock in Germany, and released their first LP, “If Two Worlds Kiss” with a sound reminiscent of new wave with very dark undertones and use of synthesizers, and […]
Boy Harsher began as an urgent need to produce and consume. In the winter of 2014, when Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller started to experiment with sound, video, and text. Born out of this tumultuous relationship in swampy Georgia, their first EP ”Lesser Man” determined their morose, pop sound. In […]
You most likely know of Jonathan Bree from the catchy music video in which him and his dancers appear wearing masks and dancing awkwardly on a 60’s, ABBA-on-TV kind of background. Elsewhere, another popular collaboration is the cigarette duet with Princess Chelsea, a sample of hippie nostalgia and probably a […]