Veranstaltungen
35 Jahre - Schokoladen, der Ackerstadtpalast und der Club der Polnischen Versager/CpV, feiern ein ganzes Wochenende drinnen und draußen, Eintritt frei/gegen Spende.
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Hof: LOCAL SUPPORT [hc punk] + BEN RACKEN [punk] + TINY DORIS [postpunk] live
LOCAL SUPPORT stehen für modernen Hardcore. Sie sind die „Essenz“ von den beiden Getränken NEGATIVE APPROACH und MINOR THREAT und sind in Berlin-Neukölln eine Allstar-Band gegründet worden. Zu hören gibt es ist ein Hardcore-Volley-Arschtritt par excellence. Krass gut.
„Düsterpunk“ wird immer wieder als Genrebezeichnung gewählt, was meist auf die musikalische Klangfarbe gemünzt ist. BEN RACKEN, die 2008 ihr erstes Album veröffentlichten, sind eine jener Phantombands, die sich sozialmedial nicht in den Vordergrund drängeln – anders als zig andere, die wenig zu sagen haben, aber in ihrer banalen Geschwätzigkeit dauerpräsent sind! Der EA80-Vergleich ist obligatorisch, soll aber hier nur dazu dienen, die verdiente Aufmerksamkeit jener zu erregen, die BEN RACKEN nie auf dem Schirm hatten und ihnen unbedingt Aufmerksamkeit schenken sollten. Also kommen und zuhören!!!!
Die Winzige TINY DORIS fasst sich ein Herz, tritt mit dem Fuß auf den Fuzz. Die zersägt die Krokodile in unseren Köpfen. Unbequeme Melodien schmetternd!
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Schokoladen Kneipe: EARTH LOGOFF [analog weird industrial body music] + SCHWINDEL [indiepunk] + BELT [noiserock] live
& after 22h DJs Pris V & Fragil:Stabil [post punk, darkwave, obscure 80s, minimal synth, shoegaze ...] all night!
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SchockTails & Glitter Floor im 'TheaterFoyer' w/ DJs Elmo, Eggeschegge & Don Caribou [indie, rock, funk, soul] all night!
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Club der Polnischen Versager: Britania Theatre 'live' & DJs
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Keller: BSM BerlimStampfMusikant*innen [hard trance, techno]
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We want Schokoladen Hoffest to be a space where personal boundaries are respected and everyone looks out for one another. If your boundaries or those of someone else are crossed, please reach out to us! Let’s create a safe space free of sexism, racism, ableism, homo- or transphobia! Enjoy the Hoffest!
35 Jahre - Schokoladen, der Ackerstadtpalast und der Club der Polnischen Versager/CpV, feiern ein ganzes Wochenende drinnen und draußen, Eintritt frei/gegen Spende.
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Hof: MERMAID MAN [psychedelic garage] + G-REX GROOVE BLAST [funk soul] + 250CC [garage duo] live
MERMAID MAN made waves with the release of the debut album "Let’s Dance To The End Of The World" in September 2024, followed by a high-energy tour across Europe that firmly established the Berlin-based project as a rising force in the underground scene — pushing boundaries and deepening their signature blend of psychedelic grooves, soulful textures, and post-wave flair.
No rules, just tools: G-REX DELIGHT gets your b00ty shaking with funk and house-inspired tunes with big brassers and hard hitting grooves. The ever-evolving collective continues to inspire with different moods, genres, covers, with a wide range of vocalists from all over the city, making them the most interesting electric & eclectic funk band in the city - and the only one with a dinosaur theme.
250CC is a French-Italian duo based in Berlin, twisting raw minimalism into something strange and cinematic. With just guitar and drums, Guido and Alice build sonic landscapes, dreamy vocal textures, sharp turns in rhythm, and sounds that echo from vintage tape machines to the fringes of dreamy distortion. 250cc turn every live show into a hypnotic, stripped-down ritual..
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SchockTails & Glitter Floor im'TheaterFoyer' --> Sonic Sisters Collective DJs [rock, glam, punk, psych, soul, fuzz—inflicting mass hysteria and collective joy] all night
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Schokoladen Kneipe: TEAM TYSON [punkrock] + HALL [punkrock] + SPLIZZ [darkwave] live
TEAM TYSON: Immense Wut, verpackt in eine Mischung aus Deutschpunk, NDW und Eighties-US-Hardcore. Sehr zackig, sehr direkt, sehr pointiert. Keine Atempause, Stakkato ist angesagt. Immer voll auf die Fresse, keine Chance zu entkommen.
HALL is a doomy, dark garage rock three-piece from Berlin and Leipzig evoking demons and chills down your spine. Made my infatuation with their initial two-piece live show, it has been a goosebumbs fest, us got shivers for the epochal, doomy catchy vocals, pushed forward of the raw force of rhythm section to an pivotal urgency of self destruction. Skip the self-care and funeral hugs! If you bats suck the MISFITS blood out of the HEX DISPENSERS, try to snake out of the evil, muddy swamps of HALL!
SPLIZZ: Ziemlicher Wirkungstreffer, wenn man nach kühlem Post-Punk mit viel, sehr viel dunklem Wave aus den frühen Achtzigern von der Insel sucht.
& after 22h DJs reni:tenz + Hinrich Tung [punk, garage, wave] all night!
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Club der polnischen Versager: Don't Shelest 'live' & after DJs
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Keller: QueerQueller - celebrate diversity [elektro postpunk-industrial, eurodisco, italo, queer techno]
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We want Schokoladen Hoffest to be a space where personal boundaries are respected and everyone looks out for one another. If your boundaries or those of someone else are crossed, please reach out to us! Let’s create a safe space free of sexism, racism, ableism, homo- or transphobia! Enjoy the Hoffest!
M:Soundtrack + African Beats & Pieces prsts: Lollise (NYC / Botswana) + Adelle Nqeto (Bln/ South Africa) + AWA Khiwe (African Women Arise) & DJ Mixanthrope
Thrilled to welcome Lollise (NYC/Botswana) to the Schokoladen stage!
Her vibrant energy, infectious beats, and radiant presence promise an unforgettable night—get ready to smile, move, and dance!
Opening the evening is the brilliant Adelle Nqeto, a Berlin-based South African artist whose soulful voice and unique take on alternative African folk left our Café Chocolat audience spellbound. We’re so excited to have her back—she’s truly one of a kind, and we can’t wait for you to experience her magic.
The night is co-curated by M:Soundtrack and African Beats & Pieces, a Berlin event series dedicated since 2017 to music made in Africa and throughout its diaspora.
To top it all off, DJ Mixanthrope will be behind the decks with an eclectic mix of rhythms and grooves to keep the energy flowing all night long.
Come early, stay late—this one’s going to be something special!
Lollise is a musician, visual artist and fashion designer from Botswana, currently living in NYC.
Using sound, color and movement, Lollise tells stories of real and imagined worlds,
multidimensional and nuanced, historical and futuristic. She performs with a potent energy and
commitment to the music, in body and in spirit. Lollise creates hybrid songs for this moment,
taking influence from the music she grew up with – Setswana and Kalanga folk songs, '80s and
'90s South African electronic bubblegum and kwaito, Congolese soukous and Zimbabwean
sungura – and the music she has been exposed to in New York, including Afrobeat, new wave,
and art-pop.
Adelle Nqeto's music stems from the gaze of an introverted observer with a passion for melody and stories. Rooted in South African folk and exploring Jazz, Indie and Pop sensibilities, the Berlin-based musician’s work expresses the beauty and complexity in our human reality. Quite fittingly, her music style has been labelled as “Alternative African Folk”.
AWA KHIWE is Zimbabwe’s fierce Ndebele rap queen—blending village roots with bold global beats. Known for her fast, sharp flow in isiNdebele and powerful lyrics on migration, gender, and resistance, she’s collaborated with Ghanaian Stallion to craft her debut album African Women Arise. Mixing hip hop, Afro-urban rhythms, and ancestral pride, AWA is blazing a trail for African women in rap—loud, fearless, and unforgettable.
African Beats & Pieces is a regular event series in Berlin dedicated since 2017 to the music made in Africa and throughout its diaspora. DJ mixes celebrating music from Africa & its diaspora beyond the mainstream since 2017. Curated by Boris Paillard/ DJ Mixanthrope -- @african_beats_and_pieces
punkfilmfest booking & little league shows prsnt:
MESS OF MANKIND / crusty hc punk, nbg
messofmankind.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/mess_of_mankind
& I FEEL VIOLENT / hc-punk, bln
/ instagram.com/ifeelviolenthc /
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available at --> vvk.link/3t6gbyo
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MESS OF MANKIND: Crusty hc punk aus Nürnberg mit einer hauchfeinen Metalkante, begleitet von wütendem Geschrei über Feminismus, Antikapitalismus und Schmerz.
little league shows & kreuzgut.disko prsnt:
MINOR CITIZEN / alternative rock/grunge-pop, nl
instagram.com/minorcitizenmusic / open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/7E8EBA7iEhcMSyU8fJfQFj
+ TOUGH MOTHER / alternative-grunge, bln
toughmother.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/yourtoughmother
live at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. pre-sale tickets available --> https://vvk.link/3rhd9ao
& after the show: Kreuzgut.Disko DJs!
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»Minor Citizen is a three-piece rock band from Amsterdam with a big mouth. With a raw mix of hard rock and grungepop, the band is comparable to great acts like Triggerfinger, Queens of the Stone Age, and IDLES.
With an EP produced by Mario Goossens from Triggerfinger, they traveled around the
Netherlands during Popronde. They attracted a lot of attention as one of the most booked acts, with an energetic live show that managed to whip up every single audience.
New music is set to be released in the fall of 2025. Sweat, headbanging, and a voice reminiscent of Chris Cornell. We'll see you in the moshpit.«
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TOUGH MOTHER: The international trio, based in Berlin, gives auditory versions of unapologetic period stains left as proud branding of love lorn lust vehicles. Playing smashing power grunge into sun burned eyes as an anthem to their own delirium, Tough Mother is expressing disappointment in the world and everyone on it.
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beav boloney & little league shows prsnt:
HUMANS AS ORNAMENTS / experimental indie noise-rock, berlin/leipzig
humansasornaments.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/humansasornaments
& ZYLVA / avant pop, bln
zylva.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/zylva_zylva
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available --> vvk.link/3tefjgw
& after the show: Under the Wires w/ DJs Mr. Cigarette Butt & Moppi Galoppi
punk / wave / garage & sex beat
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HUMANS AS ORNAMENTS have always felt at home in a space of musical experimentation. Their songs contain a variety of influences - always delivered with a raw emotional intensity. Drawing from various genres between Post-Punk, Art-Rock, R&B and HipHop, the childhood friends Dave and Dennis continuously try to find connections within opposites. As a result, their sound is distinctly individual and uncompromising.
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Berlin-based singer and electronic artist ZYLVA channels themes of hope and recovery on her EP "Antiroom." After the feat of strength that was the release of her debut album "Poems from the Dark" in 2023, Zylva longed for musical and personal companionship, something she found again in Ludwig Wandinger, a fellow Berlin resident who co-produced the EP. In keeping with the heterogeneous approach of her debut, with genres ranging from Avant Pop to Indie and Ambient over the course of 5 tracks, "Antiroom" reflects the breadth of Zylva’s musical spectrum. The title’s double meaning ("Antiroom/Anteroom") refers to spaces where one’s presence (e.g., as a female producer) is not intended, as well as the EP being a precursor to future musings and a harbinger of recovery.
Gob is a legendary Canadian punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, known for their
infectious, hook-laden sound and relentless DIY ethic. As they approach their 30th anniversary, Gob’s
influence on the punk scene remains undeniable. The band first gained prominence in 1995 with their hit
“Soda” from the album Too Late… No Friends, which became a youth anthem in Canada, thanks in part to its
iconic music video which received heavy rotation on Canada’s Muchmusic.
Over the years, Gob has released six full-length albums, sold over 300,000 physical copies, and earned
Juno nominations and Gold record certifications. Their singles “I Hear You Calling” and “Give Up the Grudge”
further solidified their place in punk rock history. Known for their energetic live shows, Gob has performed
worldwide, including major festivals like Warped Tour, Edgefest, and Amnesia Rockfest. They are one of the
rare punk bands to have had the honor of gracing the stage at Budokan in Japan.
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A staple of the Toronto scene for over a decade, The Anti-Queens are an ultra-hard-working, punked-up rock 'n' roll quartet. They've become infamous in their hometown of Toronto for their insanely high-energy, take-no-prisoners live performances.
The Anti-Queens released their second LP, DISENCHANTED, in May 2024 – produced by Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh and Steve Rizun. The band has previously self-released two stellar EPs (Grow Up/Stay Young and Start Running) and their killer full-length debut on Stomp Records in the fall of 2019.
puschen & little league shows prsnt:
MICHAEL BEACH / exp psych garage pop/folk, melbourne, australia
michaelbeach.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/michaelbeach___
+ DEAD FINKS / post-punk, bln/nz
deadfinkera.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/deadfinks
at Schokoladen. doors 19 Uhr, concert starts 20 Uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/3umwmcw
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After a year of downtime and writing, MICHAEL BEACH emerged in late 2024 with 'The Sea,' the first release from his upcoming LP on Goner/Poison City Records, and first of his recent collaborations mixing pulsing minimalism with post-punk/DIY approaches with Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Joe Talia (Oren Ambarchi, Ned Collette). A new 7" via Minneapolis label 25 Diamonds coincided with his recent US tour with Tropical Fuck Storm.
Known for his previous collaborations with members of Dirty Three, Tropical Fuck Storm, Comets On Fire, and brilliantly eccentric guitarist Charlie Megira, Beach is the architect of a sound that is both well-built and ramshackle, straightforward and indeterminably complex, out of the norm yet familiar in all the best ways.
Beach’s 2022 EP (Goner) saw him mix blown out rock and roll with his unique style of balladry, including collaborations with Lloyd Swanton on legendary Australian minimalists The Necks. His 2021 fourth full-length, Dream Violence (Goner) is an epic album that explores the duality of the human condition. Or, as Beach himself puts it, the album is about “human futility, passion, desire, anger, frustration, and the struggle to maintain hope in a somewhat hopeless time.”
Dream Violence unfolds like a revelation, filled with sonic tumbleweeds that reference Neil Young’s On the Beach, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and the Go Betweens’ Before Hollywood. Influences ranging from the enigmatic outlier Megira to Glenn Branca to the Oblivians are combined to create a new, exhilarating sound, part of the path that Beach has been on since 2008’s Blood Courses. A veteran of year-end indie rock round ups beginning with Golden Theft in 2013 and continuing with Gravity/Repulsion, released in 2017, Beach distills the best of those early albums and adds sharpened intent.
At the Memphis-based Goner label, Beach joins an increasingly unique roster of international musicians that reaches far beyond garage or indie rock to encompass artists like gospel singer Rev. John Wilkins, Kentucky rockers Archaeas, New Orleans iconoclasts Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and no-wavers Optic Sink.
4 Stars – ‘existential dread exorcised through heady guitar rockers’ – NME
‘Beach is a great Melbourne guitarist…reminds me of early Kurt Vile, with it’s mix of aggression and looseness’ – Byron Coley, Wire Magazine
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DEAD FINKS is New Zealand-born duo Erin Violet and Joseph Thomas playing post-punk music in the tradition of Wire, Sonic Youth and Parquet Courts. Their current incarnation is a 4 piece band based in Berlin.
The band started gaining traction in 2021 when the video for their single “(My Human) Extinction” was premiered on the taste-making Harakiri Diät channel, becoming a modest hit in underground punk circles. They gained further attention after being hand-picked by Detroit post-punk stalwarts Protomartyr to support several dates of their 2022 EU tour, and went on to support Dry Cleaning on the entire European leg of their 2023 world tour.
Their most recent album is 2024’s “Eve of Ascension”, a “prelapsarian nine-track survey of suffering shot through with anxious belligerence, in which paranoid chants ring out with sputtering non-defeat and woozy caterwauling harmonies go toe-to-toe against insistently sclerotic drumming”. It is available now through Urge Records.
