Shitney Beers

In the organizer's words:

Shitney Beers start the expedition to their third album "Amity Island", which will be released on Grand Hotel van Cleef and Zeitstrafe on 13.12.2024! The first single "Maya Hawke" is available to stream everywhere from 27.09. and it's all there: Fluffy synthesizer earworm hook, the most beautiful and self-confident late summer guitar solo the German indie rock scene has ever seen and instantly igniting sparkly, creaky nineties pop grunge melodies - is it the queerfeminist "teenage dirtbag" we all wanted? Yes!

The album also features 12 new gems from the extraordinary Hamburg band, which follow on from the 2022 hit album "This is Pop" and show Shitney Beers in an even broader position: More instrumentation (banjo, strings) and creamy choirs, with "Done" featuring Brockhoff, the new "Don't let the sun go down on me" is also included. A dream and, despite the nineties college rock borrowings, highly contemporary in terms of content (especially "N4N") and an important album for the FLINTA* scene. AND of course "Amity Island" is also going on tour in spring 2025! Not to be missed.

Supporting them: The Drug!

The Drug is an indie rock band from Halle (Saale). True to the motto "Music Is The Drug!", the five musicians quote their way through pop history and create their very own sound in the process. The melancholy of Radiohead or The Smiths meets the synthesizers of Tame Impala, the lyrical love of Nick Cave, the quirky Britpop of Blur and the bombast of The War On Drugs.

The Drug began in the middle of the great lockdown of 2020. The self-titled debut album was released in April 2022. The lead single 'Man Problem' in particular, a synth-driven indie anthem about toxic masculinity, struck a chord with the public. The result was hundreds of airplays (including SWR3 and MDR Sputnik) and tens of thousands of streams. This was followed by sold-out gigs throughout Germany and a few first festival shows (e.g. the Ringbühne at the Bochum Total Festival).

On November 29, The Drug will release their second album "Bad Time Stories", on which the band adds even more depth and dynamism to the melancholic sound of their first album.
even more depth and dynamism. Singles such as "Lifeline", "Drunk Texting" and "Nobody Knows Me" have already given a foretaste of the newfound energy.
"Nobody Knows Me".