KID-O

With their EPs "The Backyard Tapes" and "The Basement Sessions", KID-O from Freiburg, where the backgammon players still believe they are the true rebels, bring the sound that grunge and punk need today - loud, dirty and without frills. No kitsch, no frippery, every now and then a melody even comes through. Neo-grunge, as they call it.

Their shows? Direct, unexpected and damn well unforgettable. Having performed with the Subways, among others, they have established themselves as a live band that doesn't care about conventions. Don't miss out on what you'll regret later.

Frank Illusion & The Electric Chairs

Frank Illusion & Die Elektrischen Stühle - Ten years of newcomers, zero compromises

For a decade now, Frank Illusion have been perhaps the most consistent newcomers in Germany - a band that just won't stop going on, while others have long since disappeared. Where others chase after trends, they prefer to build their own: raw, colorful, weird and yet honest.

Their sound is a psychedelic trip through world music, punk and underground poetry - somewhere between a Moroccan alleyway, a London basement club and a smoky festival tent at three in the morning. Guitars shimmer, percussion drifts, voices break out - and suddenly everything is one: chaos, groove, ecstasy.

Frank Ilusion & Die Elektrischen Stühle are no nostalgics, no dazzlers, no hypes. They're convinced people who have been playing for ten years as if it were the first time - or the last. And now, finally, it's here: the first record.