Since the year 2013, through steadfast devotion and the sanctity of independent curation, Eleven Empire has tended a living ember within the Rockhouse Salzburg—a sanctuary and gathering place for contemporary sound, unbound by the decrees of industry and guided only by its own enduring spirit.
Beneath shifting constellations of noise, rhythm, and song, future luminaries have crossed paths .Long before acclaim found their names, voices from the underground were summoned into this chamber; alongside them arrived wanderers, sonic alchemists, restless experimenters, and seekers.
A rite of passage for the unforeseen, a sanctuary for the singular, and a vessel through which contemporary music reveals itself. Untamed and luminous.

UPCOMING
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TCHOTCHKE
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STEP CLOSER: TCHOTCHKEJune 3rd 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg | On Playin’ Dumb, shaped and guided in close collaboration with The Lemon Twigs, the New York trio Tchotchke enters into a quiet negotiation…
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SUMMER SESSIONS 2026
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STEP CLOSER: SUMMER SESSIONS 2026June 25th 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg | In the summer of 2026, the rite continues. Once more, a carefully assembled constellation of artists will converge for a single evening of…
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WIDOWSPEAK
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STEP CLOSER: WIDOWSPEAKNovember 25th 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg | Widowspeak, emerging from New York and now moving through their fifteenth year of quiet continuity, have long stood as a steady vessel for…
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X!XU
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STEP CLOSER: X!XUMay 13th 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg | X!XU (spoken “Ski-Schuh”) emerge from Linz as a trio suspended between definitions, where jazz is not a form but a field of tension—entwined…
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SPYCATS • CELESTIAL GUARD
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STEP CLOSER: SPYCATS • CELESTIAL GUARD9. Mai 2026 | In the spirit of the local underground, Eleven Empire opens a further passage on the 9th of May: The Underground Exchange. Within this convergence, the Spycats…
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A.S. FANNING
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STEP CLOSER: A.S. FANNING30. April 2026 | The Irish songwriter A.S. Fanning moves through the borderlands of sound, where introspective folk dissolves into rock, wave, and the drifting haze of psychedelic pop—shaping darkly…
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LUCY KRUGER & THE LOST BOYS
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STEP CLOSER: LUCY KRUGER & THE LOST BOYSMarch 12th 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg | Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys move through the liminal space between raw emotional exposure and a kind of gothic-poetic depth, where sound…
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ROMES
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STEP CLOSER: ROMESFebruary 5th 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg | The Canadian alternative rock formation ROMES arrives as a voltage signal from the margins of genre itself, carrying with them a debut transmission…

