SALÒ

Pop is dead. Punk was never to be pinned down. Hardcore? Dead too.

What remains is SALÒ—the anarcho-pop-punk poet from Vienna who rocks the club stages with emotional punch and sharp social criticism. Following his acclaimed album *Problemzone Mensch* (December 2024), the next level of escalation is here:

HARDCORE IST TOT TOUR 2026—a liturgy for lost souls with glitter under their eyes and spotty Wi-Fi. New anthems for broken hearts, new looks for broken bodies. Somewhere between punk, electroclash, and capitalism therapy, SALÒ sings of love, anger, and being overwhelmed in the here and now. With smug mockery, unconditional self-irony, and radical vulnerability, SALÒ makes music for an overstimulated generation—loud, rebellious, danceable—and every line hits right in the heart.

On the HARDCORE IST TOT TOUR 2026, SALÒ arrives with a new album (release date: April 26) and an excessive live show, angrier, louder, and more intimate than ever. The lead single “JELLO BIAFRA,” named after the legendary Dead Kennedys frontman, makes it unmistakably clear where the journey is headed: “Rent isn’t getting more expensive—rent is being made more expensive”—a sentence like a guillotine from which no one can pull their head away. “JELLO BIAFRA” isn’t just a song. It’s an acoustic pamphlet, a punch—turned-manifesto—into the sterile corridors of late-capitalist rental contracts.

SALÒ is pop with attitude, glamour with grit, punk with synthesizers. Anyone who sees him live knows: this isn’t a show—it’s escalation with depth. SALÒ dances on the ruins of masculinity, morality, and the mainstream. He makes noise that sticks.