Polish art-rock band releases new single, announces U.S. tour, speaks out against fascism.
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25 August 2025
Festival of International Writers in Translation
American book Crops, in Peter Constantine’s translation, has been selected as one of the featured books at the Festival of International Writers in Translation.
18 August 2025
Rebroadcast from the BBC
On August 22 at 10:00 p.m., the Trupa Trupa concert from BBC Radio 6 Music will be rebroadcast by the Third Program of Polish Radio.
10 August 2025
Yale Artist in Residence alert
As the Polish Presidency of the EU Council comes to an end, we speak to Grzegorz Kwiatkowski from the band Trupa Trupa about the grand political landscape, intimate private discoveries, and touring the USA during seismic changes.
7 August 2025
NPR / WORLD CAFE
For Polish band Trupa Trupa, remembering our history is paramount. You may have noticed the term “unprecedented times” has become a very common way to describe life over the last few years. In some ways, that’s true, but just because these exact circumstances may feel new 0r shocking, often there is precedence.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has become a visiting writer at the American Alan Cheuse International Writers Center and George Mason University.
28 July 2025
New York Times
For over a decade, the Polish band Trupa Trupa has been unleashing idiosyncratic blasts of psychedelic rock with a sharp post-punk edge, using music as a form of catharsis as well as activism. The group — Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and Wojtek Juchniewicz on vocals and guitar, plus Tomek Pawluczuk on drums — is now gearing up for the release of their new EP, “Mourners,” along with a performance at New York’s Heaven can wait on March 1.
28 July 2025
Chicago Reader
Poland’s Trupa Trupa confront humankind’s atrocities to fight for something better. Trupa Trupa make rickety, bleak music for surviving authoritarianism. Since self-releasing their full-length debut, 2011’s LP, the trio from the coast of northern Poland have wandered through the foggiest and most aching parts of psych and garage rock, postpunk, and posthardcore to create a sound whose greatest consistency is its ability to express the darkest aspects of the human experience—and the beauty we must nurture despite it all.
24 July 2025
Chicago Tribune
In 2018, Trupa Trupa was 15 minutes from taking the stage at the venerable South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, when singer and guitarist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s amp burned out.