Starbenders
Starbenders are the rising gods of glam rock, tearing stages apart with shocking energy, whether it’s a festival or an intimate club show. Hungarian audiences last caught them at Barba Negra, and on July 7 they’ll blow the roof off Dürer Kert with their first headline show in Budapest and a soon-to-be-released new album. Starbenders are the embodiment of the rock’n’roll dream for every dreamer living on this third rock from the sun.
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Singer-songwriter Kimi Shelter is like the love child Johnny Thunders and Joan Jett should have had, raised with an impeccable musical education at Blondie Elementary School, Def Leppard High, and Bowie College, before completing a PhD at Siouxsie Sioux University, majoring in “Fuck All Y’all.” Meanwhile, Aaron Lecesne brings crushing bass lines, vivid musicality, and lightning-strike stage energy to the band, wrapped in fashion-icon flair, while Hungarian-born Kriss Tokaji is the literal embodiment of a Guitar Adonis, whose talent is set to place him among today’s leading young guitar heroes.
Dürer Kert
Dürer Kert, which moved from the City Park to the vicinity of Kopaszi Dam, is one of the hangouts of Budapest's surviving peripheral subcultures, but it's also worth visiting if you just want a perfect garden spot. That is, starting in spring. Until then, let's keep rockin'! And after that, too.