Knockdown Center announces its first two Outline festivals of 2025. The venue’s flagship series will begin its fifth year by with a lineup of artists spanning four continents, Germany’s Michael Rother is set to headline the Main Hall on Sunday, March 30th, presenting the pivotal work of Neu! and Harmonia. The rest of the night will include sets from Thurston Moore, Australian post-punk duo HTRK, and Japanese singer, songwriter and singular composer Eiko Ishibashi. Outline has a busy season for Knockdown Center next year, followed by the first-ever C2C Festival NYC on May 9, the return of WIRE Festival from May 16-18, and more to be added soon.

Saturday, April 12th, Outline switches gears to a avant-garde and alternative, instrumental and IDM, pop and psychedelic. Across two stages, performances will come from Austin’s post-rock quartet, Explosions In The Sky, Icelandic band múm, Guatemalan-born, Mexico City-based cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti, Philadelphia shoegazers They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Dutch producer and innovator upsammy, and CDMX’s no wave and krautrock-inspired group, Diles Que No Me Maten.

2024, featured Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Alan Sparhawk, Marina Herlop and Maria BC, to hard rock and metal from The Armed, King Woman, Chat Pile, Cloakroom, Ragana and Couch Slut, to a rapturous finale featuring Yaeji, Sofia Kourtesis, Ela Minus, Nourished by Time and Malibu. Never the same, but always curated and designed to bring out the best in the artists and audience, each new iteration will keep pushing the limits of creativity, and elevating the idea of what a venue and festival should be in 2025.

Knockdown Center is a 50,000 square-foot building has seen continuous use for more than 100 years: first as the Gleason-Tiebout glass factory, then as Manhattan Door factory. It is named for the Knock-Down door frame that was invented here in 1956 by Samuel Sklar. The frame could be shipped in pieces — or “knocked down” — and installed into existing walls, revolutionizing the speed and efficiency of building construction. The factory has since remained in the Sklar family and is again a site for innovation.

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