Cafe Kino
Co-operative cafe with intimate performance space downstairs.
Cafe Kino is a collectively run vegan cafe and radical grassroots arts hub in Stokes Croft. Fiercely progressive and unapologetically queer-led, its 75-standing capacity basement hosts everything from DIY punk, hardcore and alt-folk gigs to arts workshops and avant-garde film screenings, all rooted in independence and collective care.
What's On At Cafe Kino
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metal
hardcore-punk
alternative metal
post-hardcore
emo
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jazz
experimental
experimental pop
electronic
poetry
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punk
country rock
bluegrass
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experimental
noise
ambient
industrial
drone
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lgbtq+
lgbtq+
electronic
lgbtq+
food & drink
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punk
post-punk
metal
hardcore-punk
shoegaze
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alternative rock
rock
metal
alternative metal
grunge
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folk
singer-songwriter
traditional folk
indie folk
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experimental
lo-fi
new wave
electronic
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rock
post-punk
art rock
progressive rock
experimental rock
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alternative rock
indie rock
folk rock
garage rock
lo-fi
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indie rock
punk
post-punk
indie pop
pop punk
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singer-songwriter
indie pop
alternative pop
art pop
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metal
hardcore-punk
death metal
sludge metal
rap metal
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Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
The dungeon synth renaissance has trickled outta the internet and into our fair cityl! Blades of Folmär are an essential inventory item if your campaigns be existential and ambient-gazing, while Undumë veer into dank dungeon dreadquest, and Bone Folder summon mighty drone folk from guitar’n’bass feedback. Grail-tastic FFO: Klaus Schulze, Quest Master, Mortiis, One Leg One Eye.
Blades of Folmär,undumë,H’sT X DJ JG,Bone Folder, you are drowning evil at Cafe Kino.
Sell out warning! North Carolina old-time banjo champion Joseph Decosimo brings bewitching front-porch jams to the Kino basement, stretching Appalachian standards into a haze of cosmic Americana. A joyous backwoods hoedown FFO: Clyde Davenport, Adam Hurt, The Onlies, Gillian Welch.
JOSEPH DECOSIMO at Cafe Kino.
QWAK turn themselves inside-out while Duvel Mortgage drag country music through the mud of English esoterica. A collision of The Bohman Brothers’ scrapheap musique concrète with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson’s low culture occultism, they dance a delirious cabaret with Tapsew’s percussive factory-floor theatrics and Lynchian dream siren Patsy Delve’s post-doo-wop hauntings.
Duvel Mortgage + Richard Thomas + Tapsew + Patsy Delve at Cafe Kino.
Hotly-tipped DIY singer-songwriting prodigy takes on Cafe Kino: Leeds' Ewy channels Midwestern emo and a heavier take on 2010s anti-folk-punk with their unique mix of visceral intensity and bare-bones tenderness. This one’ll hit real deep with fans of: Ramshackle Glory, Jeff Rosenstock, Nana Grizol, Defiance Ohio, Onsind.
EWY TOUR 2026 at Cafe Kino.
Bacchus be praised for making sure our blackened cup always overfloweth weekly. Replenish yourself with a big gulp of Apathy’s death-splattered metalcore, triumphantly returning to town after last year’s album launch permanently damaged Moor Beer’s concrete visage. Spin-kick warning firmly in place FFO: Malevolence, Gojira, Lamb of God.
Apathy, Mentality & Kintona at Cafe Kino.