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updated October 2017

LABELS / PROMOTERS

Agharta - promoter - improvised / adventorious

Autarkeia - label - industrial / dark ambient

Charivari - promoter - post / math rock

Cold Tear - netlabel - dub / techno
DAI - promoter - techno

Dangus - label - post folk
Dos club - rhythmical experimental music promoter
Elfa - label, ambient
Electron Emitter - label / promoter - experimental electronic
Garsų Gelmės - promoter and label
Ghia - label / promoter - noise / dark ambient
Minimal.lt - promoter - minimal techno / ambient

Moontrix - label - industrial / dark ambient
Sculdubuldu - label - improv

Shatrija - promoter -  electronic / dark / dance / contemporary
Suru.lt - promoter - post punk / electronic

Terror - label / zine - noise / power electronics / drone

EVENTS

Ahead - electronic music festival, Vilnius

Area - experimental / industrial festival with a focus on Lithuanian artists
Centras - media & music festival, Kaunas

Creature - performance art festival, Kaunas

Enter - media & music festival, Šiauliai

Gaida - contemporary music festival

Jauna Muzika - electronic music festival, Vilnius

Mėnuo Juodaragis - postfolk / darkwave music festival, Zarasai
Ont Grindų - grind / noise / punk music festival - open air

Postcosmos - electronic music, mostly Vilnius, also open-air

Virus - arts and music festival, Šiauliai

VENUES

XI20 - punk / sometimes experimental, Vilnius
Cechas 48 - from electronic hardcore to ambient, Vilnius

CAC - contemporary art centre, Vilnius

Elektrit - different stuff, Vilnius
Ideas block LT - sometimes experimental, Vilnius

LARGO - various contemporary, from indie to noise, etc, Kaunas

Lemmy - rock, metal, punk, noise, Kaunas
Kablys - from techno to noise, psychedelic rock, various, Vilnius
Kaštonas - various contemporary,  a bit mainstream orientated, Klaipėda
Kauno menininkų namai - from improv to indie, Kaunas
Kirtimai culture centre - from indie to experimental, Vilnius
Menų zona - various alternative, underground, Klaipėda
Music inovation studies centre - experimental, sound art, Vilnius
Paviljonas - from jazz to pop and experimental, Vilnius

Pelėda - from dub to various contemporary, Vilnius
Peronas - sometimes impro jazzy stuff, Vilnius
Pokšt - art space in Utena
POST - gallery, sometimes sound art related events, Kaunas
Raudona Zona - improvised music, Kaunas
Rūdininkų knygynas - bookstore, sometimes jazz concerts, Vilnius
Studium P - diy space, gallery, concerts also, Vilnius

Yucatan Extension - from techno to minimal synth and experimental, Vilnius

Turgus - impro jazzy stuff

Underground Jazz Club - improv / jazz, Vilnius

ARTISTS & BANDS

the list

OTHER

AV Galerija - arts in province 

Daina Dubauskaite - culture / music blog

DAR - artist residency 

Daug garso ir šviesų - writings about indie music 

Avantgarde art Lithuania - related information resource 

Jurij Dobriakov - writings about contemporary culture 

LTMKS - Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist union 

Mekusa - art projects / events

MIC - music information centre Lithuania

Modus Radio - music journal 

NDG - national art gallery

Ore - culture blog

Secret Thirteen - music & art journal

Vilnius Hardcore - community