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Timetables and Mobile App

Recents from our blog.

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Delegates Database

This year, the Delegates Database is only accessible via our Mobile App and no longer through the website. Once you have purchased or redeemed your Conference Pass or Pro Pass, your profile will be activated in the app by the following day at noon. After that, you can log in with your email address using the Delegates Database button in the app.

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Free Saturday Afternoon Programme

For its 15th anniversary, Waves Vienna introduces a brand-new Saturday afternoon live program with free admission at Lucia, Loop, and Coco. All acts will also perform in the official evening schedule on different festival days. Featured artists include Karl Kave & Durian (CH), GB (DK), Admire (ES), Cordoba78 (AT), Adjua (UK), The Guilt (SE), Fraeulein Astrid (AT), Frachild (AT), and BRÖ (FR).

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Waves Vienna Saturday Delegates Programme

This year, on Saturday from noon until the evening, we offer a special side program for delegates. Please note that participation requires either a Conference Pass or a Pro Pass.

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3 more Acts

With these three acts, the Waves Vienna 2025 lineup is now complete: Antonia XM (AT), Frachild (AT), and Zelda Weber (AT).

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The final 18 for the Line-Up

We're super happy to present you the last 18 acts to complete this year's line-up of Waves Vienna.

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Conference Events 2025

Finally, here's an overview of the events taking place at this year's conference. Come by and be part of an exchange between international panelists and delegates from all parts of the music sector!

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Vote Now: CEIFA Public Voting Has Started

Public voting for CEIFA – the Central European Indie Festivals Award – is now open! Support your favorite festival from AT, CZ, SK or SI. Voting is open until September 15. The Top 5 festivals will move on to the final jury round. 👉 Cast your vote now!

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The 6 Nominees for the XA - Export Award 2025

Chosen from all acts performing at the Waves Vienna Festival, the nominees are: Beaks, Filiah, Jo The Man The Music, Kid’s Don’t Smoke, Lovehead, and Sanna Frankie

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Daily Line-Ups

The daily line-ups and corresponding daily festival passes are now available!

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24 new Acts

The line-up just got bigger: 24 new acts are in!

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23 more Acts

We are happy to present you 23 more acts for this year's line-up.

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New Indie Festivals Award: CEIFA

Waves Vienna proudly presents CEIFA – the Central European Indie Festivals Award. Celebrating outstanding independent music festivals from Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. Learn more about the nomination process, the voting and the prizes.

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Waves Vienna Opening 2025

On 1 October we celebrate 15 years of Waves Vienna with a special opening night at Volkstheater - hosted by OSKA with guests like Christina Stürmer, Josh., Yasmo, Oskar Haag and Hans Platzgumer! Proceeds go to a new UK residency programme. Afterwards: DJ line-up & drinks in the Rote Bar!

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24 new Acts for this year‘s Line-Up

We are super happy to present you a wide range of new Acts added to the Line-Up for this year‘s edition of Waves Vienna.

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Conference Topics

We are pleased to present the first topics for Conference 2025. These include, of course, an in-depth look at the Spanish music market and some initial events relating to this year's spotlight: Digital and Analogue Distribution.

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Call for Delegates

Waves Vienna invites music professionals from across Europe and beyond to become part of this year's edition! The festival and conference will take place from October 2nd to 4th, 2025, in Vienna, Austria. Whether you are a label, booker, manager, promoter, publisher, or artist representative – apply now and join an inspiring network of international delegates!

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10 more Acts for 2025

We're super happy to announce the next 10 acts for this year's edition of Waves Vienna!

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Guest of Honour Spain and Conference Focus

Spain will be the Guest of Honour at Waves Vienna 2025, and the conference will also cover relevant and important socio-political and music industry topics.

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Austrian Application for CWX open

Registration for Austrian delegates for the Colombia Work Exchange tour in cooperation with Austrian Music Export is now open.

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Colombia Work Exchange launched

Waves Vienna launches the Colombia Work Exchange (CWX) programme with a Delegates Tour from 28 March to 2 April in Vienna, Lubjlana, Budapest, Bratislava and Brno. Workshops and networking events will be organised in each city in cooperation with the local export offices.

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Sale start Pro Pass & Conference Tickets

On 13 January 2025 at 11 am we will start with the Early Bird Pro Pass and Conference Tickets.

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First 10 Acts for Waves Vienna 2025

We are extremely pleased to present the first 10 acts for the upcoming Waves Vienna from 2 to 4 October 2025.

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Super Early Bird & Early Bird Tickets 2025

On Wednesday, 20 November 2025 at 1 pm, we will start selling our Super Early Bird und Early Bird Tickets.

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Waves Vienna says thank you

Waves Vienna says thank you to 827 conference delegates and 13,798 visitors. The 14th edition was a complete success. The date for next year has already been set for October 2-4, 2025 and 50 Hyper Early Bird Festival Passes are now available for EUR 20. Hyper Early Bird Festival Passes for EUR 20.

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Timetables as PDF

If you prefer something more analog, you can also download our festival timetables as a PDF instead of the mobile app and print them out at home.

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Live Streaming Conference

This year, we will be live streaming all Waves panels that take place in our main venue, the Stadtkino, on Friday, September 6, free of charge via YouTube.

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Timetables and Mobile App

Our mobile App for iOS and Android with all the timetables for the festival and for the conference is now online. Timetables can be found on the website too of course.

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The Gap Young Talent Award for Music Journalism 2024

Apply now for The Gap Young Talent Award for Music Journalism! Are you interested in cultural journalism? Do you have a burning topic about the Austrian music scene? Do you need financial support to realise it?

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5 more acts to complete the line-up

With these 5 acts, the line-up for Waves Vienna 2024 is now complete: Alien Chicks (UK), Eoghan Neff (IE), Marta Duarte d'Almeida (PT), Omnion (CZ) and Wukamash (CO)

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Conference Topics 2024

We are pleased to provide a first concrete overview of our topics for this year's edition of the Waves Vienna Conference. This year the conference will take place simultaneously and in co-operation with bzzzz. Tickets for bzzzz are valid for the Waves Vienna Conference and vice versa.

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Waves Vienna 2024 Sticker Album

For the first time this year there will be a Waves Vienna sticker album with 120 motifs of the acts and venues performing at the festival presented by Fritz-Kola.

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Another 44 artists for the line-up

A further 44 artists make the line-up almost complete. There are still a few stragglers to come, but on Wednesday the daily line-up will also be released and the day passes will become available.

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The 6 nominees for the XA - Export Award 2024

In 2024, the XA - Export Award will be presented for the eight time. The Austrian acts nominated this year are AF90, Edna Million, Enesi M., Lucy Dreams, Nnoa and Oh Alien.

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Main Sponsor 2024: Ticketmaster New Music

We are excited to announce Ticketmaster New Music as our main sponsor for Waves Vienna 2024!

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22 more acts

We're happy to announce the next 22 acts for this year's edition of Waves Vienna from Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Poland, Portugal, UK, France and Switzerland!

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Waves Vienna Line-Up 2024

Bad Hammer (DE) Bluai (BE) Bo Milli (NO) Comfort (UK) David Arcos (CO) Eat Girls (FR) Edna Million (AT) Efeu (AT) Elle Valenci (FR) Enesi M. (AT) Gardens (AT) Ischia (AT) Jazzygold (FO) Laventure (FR) Leber (AT) Low Life Rich Kids (AT) Lukas Oscar (AT) Masaž (SI) Mina Richman (DE) Modular (DE) Nnoa (AT) Oh alien (AT) Panik Deluxe (AT) Portrait of Tao (AT) Potato Beach (AT) Ravage Club (FR) Skofi (AT) Spilif (AT) Suluka (AT) Tusks (UK) Unflirt (UK)

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19 more Acts

We are extremely pleased to present the next 19 acts for this year's Waves Vienna. Including the great Masaž from Slovenia in the picture.

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First 12 acts for Waves Vienna 2024

As a small foretaste, we are pleased to present the first acts for this year's Waves Vienna, which will take place on the Gürtel from 5 to 7 September 2024: Bluai (BE) in the picture and David Arcos (CO) from our Guest of Honour Colombia.

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Colombia becomes Guest of Honour 2024

As part of a fact-finding mission by Austrian Music Export in November 2023, initial contacts were made with the music industry and music scene in Colombia and a closer analysis of the market revealed that it is not only incredibly diverse and open, but also very suitable for cooperation and exchange programmes. Reason enough for Waves Vienna to build on the findings of Austrian Music Export and present and shed light on music from Colombia, the market and the scene at Waves Vienna.

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Artist Application for 2024 open

The application for Waves Vienna 2024 is now open and will run until the end of May 2024.

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Date for 2024 & Ticket Sale

We are delighted to announce the date for the 14th edition of Waves Vienna: 5 to 7 September 2024.

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2023 After Movie

With the announcement of the date for our 2024 edition of Waves Vienna, we are also proud to present our official After Movie 2023.

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Waves Vienna Mobile App

This year there will again be a mobile app for iOS and Android with all the shows of the artists performing at Waves Vienna.

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8 more acts complete the Line-Up

We're happy to announce eight more acts to complete the line-up for this year's edition of Waves Vienna.

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Solidarity with Ukraine Button

We support Ukraine in their resistance against the brutal Russian aggression and put up our own Ukraine solidarity button for EUR 2. The net proceeds will be used to support Ukrainian musicians.

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27 more Acts join the Line-Up

We are super happy to announce 27 more acts for this year's Line-Up. Featuring acts from the Ticketmaster New Music x Goodlive Artists Austria Showcase, the Noise Appeal Records Night and from the Upbeat programme.

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Main Sponsor 2023: Haus der Musik

We are pleased to have won Haus der Musik as our main sponsor!

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Feedback Sessions open

Registration is now open for the popular Feedback Sessions at the Waves Vienna Conference. There will be two listening sessions and one session on newsletters.

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Ticketmaster New Music x Goodlive Artists Austria Night

At the Ticketmaster and Goodlive Artists Austria Showcase the upcoming acts Childe (UK), Thala (UK), Tina (AT) and Oscar Lang (UK) will present to the festival audience.

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#NAR20

Noise Appeal Records celebrates 20th anniversary with a Showcase at Waves Vienna. Live: le_mol, The New Mourning und Drive Moya.

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raspberry soda x Feber Wolle

Two Viennese labels that share a love for raspberry soda and cosy, woolly sounds present their up-and-coming newcomers on Thursday, 7. Sep. The indie labels raspberry soda and Feber Wolle records have been sharing an office in Vienna's district Ottakring for several years and now, for the first time, a stage at Waves Vienna. It is going to be loud and colourful - from Synth-Pop to Indie-Punk.

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5 unter 5 Showcase

5 newcomer artists from Germany and Austria, presented by 5 newcomer entrepreneurs. Companies that are not yet 5 years old and that bring a breeze of fresh air with them.

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The fourth wave of acts is here

We are pleased to announce 10 more fantastic acts for the 2023 line-up, which will be represented by showcases from Warner Music Austria, raspberry soda x Feber Wolle and 5 unter 5

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XA Nominees 2023

We present you the six local artists nominated for the XA - Export Award 2023: Bex, Endless Wellness, Cousines Like Shit, Another Vision, Rian and Bon Jour.

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Open Call: Waves Heartbeats Songwriting Camp

Austrian Music Export and Waves Vienna invite studios, producers, and songwriters to the Waves Heartbeats Songwriting Camp, happening from September 4- 7! Applications are open from now until July 25th. The camp’s aim is to foster international networking, particularly with artists from this year’s partner countries, France and Switzerland.

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22 more Acts join the Line-Up

We are pleased to announce another 22 acts for this year's line-up. Including the acts from the "Universal Music Group NEXT UP!" Labelnight, The Spanish Wave and Swiss Focus.

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First look at the Waves Conference

Not just talk, but exchange ideas with international colleagues: About AI, touring with kids or diversity in line-ups - panels, masterclasses and talks at the conference again offer space to learn from each other and discover ideas.

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Universal Music Group NEXT UP! Night

On 9 Sep 2023, Universal Music Austria will once again present exciting newcomers from Austria and Germany as part of the Waves Festival 2023.

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Wombat's City Hostels is our partner again

Wombat's supports Waves Vienna again this year with accommodation for artists, as a stop of the Delegates' Tour and with a contribution, where womBEATS artists perform at Waves.

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Main Sponsor raffle 2023

We'll open 40 lots at EUR 500 (net), among which we'll award the main sponsor on 24 July 2023 at 11.00 a.m. under notarial supervision and live via Facebook.

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Crowdfunding 2023

Our crowdfunding campaign for 2023 is online. Including 20 Special Early Bird Tickets for EUR 30 each.

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Second Wave of Acts

We're super happy to present you the second Wave of Acts for this year's edition of Waves Vienna including the acts for the Queer Music Agency Night.

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Queer Music Agency Night

✧ Get ready for a magnificent night when Queer Music Agency is hosting a showcase with 3 talented artists ✧ Queer Music Agency is an agency that aims to create more diversity in the music industry by representing queer artists and double minorities whilst also fostering a strong community for queers as well as creating a safer space for minority groups.

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Open Call The Spanish Wave

This year we welcome The Spanish Wave Showcase at Waves Vienna for again. The open call for Spanish acts runs until 30 May 2024.

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Discounts on flights to Waves Vienna 2023

You are traveling by plane to Waves Vienna 2023? Then we have discounted fares for flights with the Lufthansa Group for you!

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Call for volunteers

Are you interested in music, are you in Vienna from 1 to 5 October and would like to take a look behind the scenes of a music festival? Then apply as a volunteer for this year’s Waves Vienna. We are again looking for volunteers to support us in the realisation of Waves Vienna.

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Open Call

As of now, the application for one of 10 slots, which we advertise via Gigmit, is open.

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First wave of acts for this year's edition

It's springtime again and that means we have got the first 13 acts for the 13th edition of Waves Vienna!

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Focus on Switzerland, current trends and proven formats

We are pleased to welcome Switzerland as our guest country for this year. We will deal intensively with our neighbouring country, but also the leitmotif of diversity and the meta-topic of unconcious bias will be dealt with comprehensively within the framework of the conference.

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UpBeat at Waves

For the first time, Waves Vienna will include UpBeat as part of a unique EU project.

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Venues for 2023

In 2023, Waves Festival is moving a few streets away again and it's with a heavy heart that we leave the concert and conference halls of the WUK behind.In 2022, we already played some of the well-known clubs on the 'Gürtel', which went down very well not only with the audience and the conference participants, but also with the acts.