Riviera Festival für Pop- und Clubkultur

In the organizer's words:

3 days, 8 venues, 35 concerts, readings and DJ sets

Whether in the club, studio, on the meadow, on the water or on the open-air stage - at the Riviera Festival for Pop and Club Culture, Offenbach's independent music venues come together to form a joint festival on the Main. From September 5 to 7, 2025, Riviera invites you to discover a wide range of newcomers and scene greats from indie, rap, electro, post-punk, pop and more. In addition to numerous concerts and DJ sets, the festival program includes readings, a graffiti jam, workshops for children and families and art installations.

Music that moves - from underground to pop avant-garde
Lugatti, one of the most distinctive voices of Cologne's rap underground, will be on stage. Maurice Conrad, a former software engineer, raps uncomfortably about queer sexuality and with subtle irony. From Vienna comes Donna Savage, who uncompromisingly defies role clichés. The Hamburg rap collective bangerfabrique provides danceable variety.
Fans of indie and post-punk will also get their money's worth: the celebrated International Music present their idiosyncratic sound between Krautrock, New Wave and Shoegaze. The Red Flags, last seen supporting Die Ärzte and at Rock am Ring, deliver energetic feminism with grunge guitars. There will also be acts such as Gigolo Tears or the experimental producer Catnapp from Buenos Aires, who fuses drum & bass with hyperpop. The artistic positions of Dolorosa and Rosa Anschütz come together for the Riviera Sundowner.

Rhine-Main in focus
The local scene is also strongly represented. Among them: NI-KA and Alyzah, two Frankfurt rap and neo-soul voices with attitude and talent. Ska veterans Frau Doktor are celebrating their 30th anniversary, while the eight-piece Ramatou Orchestra brings groove in all its colors to the stage. SÍKARO brings Caribbean rhythms, punk and electro from Offenbach - and proves that global sounds can be created locally.

Club sounds & afterhours
The festival's club nights promise hours of dancing: The DJ program focuses on artists from the Rhine-Main region - including Becksham, Dario Milkovic and MSKI, who fan out stylistically with techno, trance and house. The RAWAX label is once again curating a roaring afterhour with DJs such as Move D, Robert Drewek and Luzie.

More than music: literature, dance, art
Readings and talks with literary depth take place in the Parkside Studios: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah reads from her novel "Schwindel", trans actor Brix Schaumburg talks about his bike trip through Germany, and Dr. Natasha A. Kelly discusses her book "Schwarz. German. Female.".
"Im Tanz erinnern wir" combines Afro-indigenous traditions with post-migrant perspectives in the Hafengarten. Tiểu-Anh Ly will be showing contemporary art with an installation on identity and perception. A graffiti jam with local sprayers rounds off the urban art program.