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Since her beginnings in 2018 Sophie and the Giants evolved into one of club culture’s freshest and most exciting voices. She enjoyed a series of international solo hits like last year’s Shut Up And Dance and 2023’s Paradise, both of which have become dancefloor fixtures as Sophie’s music has amassed over 1.2 billion streams and 657K radio spins in 2024.

Much sought out as a collaborator, Sophie’s vocals have featured on tracks with the likes of Moby, R3HAB and Fast Boy in the last year alone, following on from the enduring success she has enjoyed working with Purple Disco Machine. With 2020’s single Hypnotized passing 700 million streams and 2022’s In The Dark reaching 300 million, both tracks topped global airplay charts on their way to becoming modern-day dance classics.

Live, Sophie is much in demand by Europe’s biggest and most influential festivals and she has staged a series of acclaimed headline tours, making Sophie and the Giants’ 2025 dates among this year’s most anticipated shows.

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Sophie And The Giants

FILLY

Gigs

Berlin

Lido

Manchester’s Maruja release their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Pain to Power’, recorded at Low Four Studio and produced by Samuel W Jones, who the band worked with on the three EPs that preceded their debut full length.

‘Pain to Power’ is an extraordinary body of work that not only confirms Maruja as a creative force of nature but finds a band deeply concerned with the power of community, solidarity and love as forces for social and political change. The album echoes this across its flawless eight tracks, taking the listener from the frustration and anger of openers ‘Bloodsport’ and the BBC 6Music A-listed ‘Look Down On Us’ through to the sublime spirituality of ‘Zaytoun’ and the staggering album closer ‘Reconcile’ - a nine minute opus that builds around Joe Carroll’s transcendent sax, into lyricist, rapper and singer Harry Wilkinson’s impassioned pleas to “pray for love” and “have no fear”.

This cycle of tragedy and hope is at the very heart of ‘Pain to Power’. “It starts off brutal and turns into something powerful and expressive,” says Harry. “We have to trust in that circle of life, and in our power to overcome pain.” The album follows the arc of one of Maruja’s live shows: an onslaught of energy, arriving at a place of transcendence, the music itself rising from the ashes.

Maruja

Blind Spot

Köln

Luxor

Xavier Omär is an R&B artist who's been consistently redefining the genre with his soulful, introspective music. His latest project, blurr (2022), is a deeply personal exploration of complex emotions, resonating with fans through hit singles like Feelings 4 You and Tarantino. These tracks, which showcase Omär's ability to turn personal stories into universal experiences, have solidified his place as a distinctive voice in R&B. In 2023, he announced an exciting joint project with fellow artist ELHAE titled Truth Be Told, further proving his versatility and collaborative prowess. Known for his breakthrough song Blind Man, Xavier Omär is continuing to evolve and captivate audiences with his thoughtful, genre-blurring sound.

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Xavier Omär

Blind Man

D.$AHIN

Frannz Club

Hamburg

Bahnhof Pauli

München

Rote Sonne

Hole44

The Irish-Italian/Spanish outfit partly met at school and others later joined after meeting through the city's live music scene. With indie-pop qualities that blend alternative rock and soul sounds, Big Sleep cite artists like Big Thief, JJ Cale, Jamiroquai and The Cure as influences.

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Big Sleep

Big Sleep - All of the Pretty Things

Nochtspeicher

Yuca

Badehaus Berlin

The Japanese House (the critically acclaimed project of Amber Bain) is an alternative pop star for the modern age who serves up vulnerable lyrics and down to earth, celestial songs. Her latest, critically acclaimed album, In The End It Always Does, highlights heartbreak and love lost, emotional reflections on childhood trauma and identity, and the album finds the artist embracing her pop side like never before with help from Matty Healy and George Daniel (The 1975), Katie Gavin (MUNA), Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Charli XCX, among others.

Following a breakout year that comprised sold-out US & UK Headline Tours, a huge run of festivals and supporting dates with Maggie Rogers on her Don’t Forget Me Tour, Amber released her folk-tinged single “:)” (aka Smiley Face). This past fall, she was featured on Charli XCX’s BRAT remix album for a glittery new version of viral track “Apple,” and on Fred again..’s “backseat,” a remix of her own “Sunshine Baby.” The Japanese House’s intimate, unique sound has propelled her to hundreds of millions of streams, performances at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and more, an appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk and major media praise from NPR, The New York Times, Associated Press, Billboard, Rolling Stone, WWD, Playboy, GQ, i-D, The Fader, Pitchfork and more. In The End It Always Does follows her 2020 EP Chewing Cotton Wool and debut Good At Falling (2019).

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The Japanese House

Saw You in a Dream

The Japanese House - i saw you in a dream

Kamran Khan

Heimathafen Neukölln

Up and coming Norwegian producer oskar med k crafts a sound where chill, melodic house meets infectious, masterful songwriting. His immersive productions blend club centric beats, infectious melodies, and ethereal vocals, showcasing an emotional depth that has been catching the ears of many in the industry.  
  
Oskar’s talent and distinct style have propelled him onto the electronic music scene in a matter of months. His latest single, a collaboration with acclaimed Chill House producer Avaion, has received numerous Spotify editorial placements, garnering over a million streams in its first two weeks. With each release, he continues to push boundaries, crafting soundscapes that transport listeners into a new world of emotion and rhythm.

oskar med k

Gudibrallan - Oskar

Paradox Music Hall

Kerala Dust was formed in London in 2016. Inspired to make music by spending blurry mornings in nightclubs together, Kerala Dust is where art rock meets innovative electronica and the warm embrace of the dancefloor leaves room for the expansive vistas of Americana, desert blues and twilight drives through a neon-lit city. Kerala Dust has a wonderfully shapeshifting sound; a restless fusion where meaning is found in fragments rather than anything fixed or static. The live experience is massive and energetic, a dynamic exploration of the bands eclectic catalog.

Kerala Dust

Nevada

Kerala Dust 

Stuttgart

Im Wizemann

Frankfurt

ZOOM

Hailing from the land of compromise in the heart of Europe, the four friends of Stavroz found each other in the east of Flanders. In its inception, IJsbrand De Wilde & Gert Beazar focussed mainly on playing DJ sets and creating music in which they loved colliding worlds. Only a few years later they hooked up with Maxim Helincks & Pieter De Meester to expand their DJ activities to a performing band and continued to try and find an unbeaten path in electronic music. This culminated in their delicately acoustic, organic and cinematic approach to electronic music. As a result they were awarded second place for “best producer” and “best breakthrough artist” in national awards for Belgium’s electronic scene.

Stavroz

The Finishing

Metropol

Bass Drum of Death is getting back to basics. From the bare-bones title of their sixth record—SIX—to the writing approach—their first two LPs were recorded entirely on GarageBand—the creative process for the group is strikingly similar to the early stages of their career. While the new album marks a return to their original recording method, there are a few notable changes. Instead of working solo on the demos, frontman John Barrett and the band (Jim Barrett, guitar; Ian Kirkpatrick, drums) convened for several sessions in Barrett’s home studio in Nashville to bring the songs to life. Manning the faders was producer Jeremy Ferguson (Cage the Elephant, White Reaper), who then hosted the band for ten snowy days of fine tuning at his Battle Tapes studio. The result is a scuzzy blast of their signature sound, with influences ranging from The Stooges to ZZ Top and very much aided by Ferguson’s deft engineering touch. If SIX sounds like a return to form, the band proves they still have a few tricks in their pockets and things up their sleeves.

Bass Drum Of Death

Bass Drum of Death - Crawling After You

Backstage Halle

Cassiopeia

Achtung unsere neue Adresse ist Reeperbahn 136 (wird zum Teil in Kartenprogrammen noch falsch angezeigt). Bitte nutzt öffentliche Verkehrsmittel. Parken vor Ort ist kaum möglich. Wir sind direkt an der S-Bahn Station Reeperbahn (kein Fahrstuhl) - hier fahren auch diverse Busse. Die nächste U-Bahn Station mit Fahrstuhl (800m) ist St Pauli.

ANFAHRT

Das Molotow ist leider nicht barrierefrei - nur der Club und die Garderobe sind ebenerdig.Es gibt eine Stufe zum Club, dafür steht aber eine Rampe zur Verfügung. Die Top Ten Bar (unsere neue kleine Bühne und Bar) ist im Keller und ist nur über eine Treppe erreichbar. Im Club gibt es natürlich auch eine Bar. Die Toiletten sind ebenfalls nur über eine Treppe erreichbar und nicht barrierefrei. Die nächste barrierefreie Toilette befindet sich Reeperbahn 75 (180m). Bei unseren Veranstaltungen wird auch Stroboskoplicht eingesetzt. Mit einem B in Eurem Schwer-in-Ordnung Ausweis könnt Ihr eine Begleitperson gratis mitbringen. Eine vorherige Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig, die Vorlage des Ausweises reicht. Für Fragen und mehr Details kontaktiert uns einfach unter molotow@molotowclub.com

BARRIEREFREIHEIT

Gebäude 9

On-U Sound label boss and producer extraordinaire, Adrian Sherwood will be taking his most extensive tour to date on the road in Spring 2026, showcasing tracks from his new album, ‘The Collapse of Everything’. As well as playing to a host of European cities, this will be the first time Adrian has ever toured as a solo artist in North America.  
  
This extensive series of live dub sessions starts next February 2026 in Milan and ends in Barcelona with his homecoming London show in between at the main theatre at the Barbican Centre. Excitingly, after this he will play a number of debut shows across North America in March to April, kicking off at Big Ears festival before dropping into major cities such as LA, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Montreal and more.

Adrian Sherwood (live dub session)

Adrian Sherwood - Ancora - Dub Version

Adrian Sherwood

Following a precocious few years in music, it feels fitting now for Mann’s debut album to start at the beginning. Named Roxwell after the cherished street of her childhood home, the album is a tender ode to her formative years. An only child to loving parents, she soaked in the world from their house in West London, watching music documentaries with her father, writing songs in her bedroom and performing to her parents in the kitchen. “I’m very sentimental and wanted to pay tribute to that house, which is the closest thing to me. So much of my history is there”, she notes. A gentle and resonant album, Roxwell exudes the warmth and care of that nurturing environment, propelling Mann into the world with a fundamental desire to connect with people.

“Being in love is a very big thing for me”, says Mann. “Within this album, I’ve been in and out of love a few different times. Some of these songs are word-for-word records of what that was like.” Roxwell, then, is a charmed exploration of love from a person eager to understand and feel its presence in her life, charting its course from infatuation to intimacy to dissolution.

Matilda Mann

Matilda Mann - Never Sweeter

Matilda Mann - February

Molotow

Hansa 39

Depending on the game, an *Ace* can be the highest or lowest card, zero or infinity. A breakup feels similar—one path crumbles, while all others remain infinitely possible. How do you write about heartbreak when you’re going through it? *Ace*, GRAMMY award-winner Madison Cunningham’s third record for Verve Forecast, tracks every part of it: falling out of love, having your heart broken, and then falling in love again. Co-produced by Cunningham and Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Rilo Kiley, Bahamas, Peach Pit), the fourteen-track album is honest and full of heart, even as it breaks.  
  
*Ace* builds off of the success of *Revealer* (2022), a darkly funny portrait of an artist that won Cunningham her GRAMMY for “Best Folk Album,” but it is a different record. A slow burn until it wasn’t. It follows a period of writer's block. On *Revealer* and her debut album *Who Are You Now* (2019), Cunningham says that she was writing songs about heartbreak, but they weren’t about her heartbreak. They were sketches, observations. Cunningham wanted *Ace* to be emotions first. Heartbreaking and lush and bold.  
  
Cunningham’s first single from *Ace*, “My Full Name,” was released to praise by *PASTE* who calls the lyrics, “simultaneously sprawling and intimate,” recalling “an ancient work of poetry.” On *Ace*, which Cunningham serves as co-producer, she wanted piano to move into the foreground. “I wanted it to feel like a mountain peak,” says Cunningham, “I wanted *Ace* to feel like a mountain we built together.” *Ace* is a record that feels alive and lush in all the ways Cunningham hoped for when she started writing. It is a record of mastery and honesty. Cunningham loves every single song on it. You can tell.

Madison Cunningham

Strong Enough

Madison Cunningham - My Full Name

Fabrik

Somewhere in the ether/net of our collective social cosmos soup floats the magical, masterful pop music of Magdalena Bay, the duo from Los Angeles composed of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin who is readying to release a timeless new relic of modern sound calledI \*maginal Disk.\*  
  
While the pair may claim California as its terra firma, its true home is in the cloud/s, from where the two emit and output the unique yet familiar frequencies of synthesized nostalgia, kitschy catchiness, and bombastically warped neo-hooks for which the group has become celebrated. Transmitting in both the audio and video realms, Magdalena Bay is an entity adroitly suited for these times, caught in a haze of the known and felt while pushing sonic landscapes woven with the now into the next.

Magdalena Bay

Allie X

Carlswerk Victoria

Passionskirche

Somewhere in the ether/net of our collective social cosmos soup floats the magical, masterful pop music of Magdalena Bay, the duo from Los Angeles composed of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin who is readying to release a timeless new relic of modern sound calledI \*maginal Disk.\*

While the pair may claim California as its terra firma, its true home is in the cloud/s, from where the two emit and output the unique yet familiar frequencies of synthesized nostalgia, kitschy catchiness, and bombastically warped neo-hooks for which the group has become celebrated. Transmitting in both the audio and video realms, Magdalena Bay is an entity adroitly suited for these times, caught in a haze of the known and felt while pushing sonic landscapes woven with the now into the next.

Columbiahalle

Technikum

Kulturkirche

MARO is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer from Lisbon, Portugal. After graduating from Berklee College of Music (Boston), she debuted her career in 2018, releasing five albums and an EP. She later joined Jacob Collier on his DJESSE World Tour as part of the band. In those years, MARO opened for artists including Jessie J, Gipsy Kings, Charlotte Cardin and The Paper Kites.  

MARO has been touring for the past 3 years, performing to sold-out venues globally with both her acoustic trio and electronic duo. MARO has shared major stages with Jacob Collier, Odesza, and Parcels, and opened arenas for Shawn Mendes’ summer tour. Announcing her new album SO MUCH HAS CHANGED — a celebration of brighter, upbeat sound — MARO embarks on a fresh chapter, debuting a full-band show to the audiences worldwide in 2026.

MARO

MARO - am i not enough for now?

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