On the first night of our anniversary, Liars, once imagined by Pitchfork as “aliens who’d heard some rock, classical, and whale songs”, share top billing with Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, back at Control with Pale Bloom, an art-pop record that draws on dark folk and slowcore.

You asked for Acid Arab again, and we listened. After selling out in a blink of an eye and causing beautiful chaos on the dancefloor earlier this year, the duo returns for our 18th anniversary on Friday, October 2.

On the second night of our anniversary, Opus Kink arrive with brass, bite, “chainsaw pop” and The Sweet Goodbye, their debut album produced by Grammy winner Craig Silvey.

Eighteen years of Control calls for someone who knows how to keep things unpredictable. Roman Flügel maps the Berlin Room on Saturday, October 3.

On September 16, past self make their Romanian debut at Control. The trio channels darkwave, post-punk, dream pop, and ethereal textures through a bilingual mix of Korean and English lyrics. Pulling visual cues from visual kei and sonic influences from bands like The Cure, Molchat Doma, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and The Horrors, their sound drifts between melancholy, haze, and cold dancefloor momentum.

On Friday, September 18, PA!SA!KA! descends upon the Berlin Room, gathering a constellation of Baltic futurists for a night of queer catharsis and sonic chemistry.

We've had our eye on AEREA for a while now. This is a project that's generating serious heat, and we’re hyped to welcome them to Bucharest on Friday, September 25.

Your first taste of System Olympia is coming to Bucharest on October 23! This night oozes nocturnal decadence, don't sleep on it.

15 years into their cult career, The Underground Youth return to Control on October 24 with Décollage and a darker new sound.

Acclaimed avant-garde composer and lutenist Jozef Van Wissem returns to Bucharest for a special show – Thursday, October 29 – as part of his worldwide tour supporting his new album, This Is My Blood, released this spring.

As we keep rolling out names for the new season, we’re excited to announce that Dar Disku, your guides to Arabia’s forgotten dance floors, will be taking over the Berlin Room on October 30.

Imarhan have always ripped up the rulebook, and they’re coming to enforce this on Saturday, November 7. Since 2006, the band has challenged preconceptions about the Tuareg desert blues sound known as assouf, popularised by the likes of Tinariwen and Mdou Moctar, by blending its ancient poetry and rhythms with funk, psych-rock and pan-African rhythms.

inTension returns to Control Club on November 21, with a deep dive into the faster, harder side of Trance, headlined by the Belfast-born trance heavyweight Greg Downey.

On Thursday, November 26, Arab Strap arrive at Control for their first-ever show in Romania, bringing with them a new album due this September: Half-Told Tales. What began in 1995 as lo-fi intimacy, post-rock drift, and brutally personal storytelling has kept mutating ever since. Before and after the hiatus can feel like two different creatures, now caring even less about genre conventions.

On Saturday, November 28, DELUXE arrive at Control with moustaches, boundless energy and an unwavering commitment to a good time. Funk, jazz, rock, pop and hip-hop all find their place in DELUXE's exuberant universe discovered by Chinese Man, and are transformed into high-energy songs designed to sweep audiences along.