Yesterday’s concert at Łódź’s Debich Studio was intense, dark, joyful, and packed. Thank you for such a beautiful reception. The concert was filmed by students from the Łódź Film School, and the edit will be handled by Cold War editor Jarosław Kamiński. Photo: Wojtek Bryndel

Łódź 🖤

What a lovely invitation. Thank you, Agnieszka Holland. See you on Friday in Łódź!

A very special concert is coming up, celebrating the 95th anniversary of Radio Łódź, in the legendary Debich Studio!

1/ I’m really, really happy because my new essay has just been published in Project Syndicate - one of the world’s most influential outlets for opinion and analysis. Among its contributors are, among others, Timothy Snyder, Francis Fukuyama, and Timothy Garton Ash

Amazing - Trupa Trupa's Grzegorz writing in The Guardian about violence, history and David Lynch.

Onet invited me to a long, wide-ranging conversation. www.onet.pl/muzyka/onetm...

Tomorrow I’ll be a guest at Northwestern University, hosted by Professor Rachel Jamison Webster. It will be my second time meeting her Creative Writing students. The poster was designed by the wonderful Colin Pope.

Recording is underway for Trupa Trupa’s new full-length album. Video: Tomek Pawluczuk

I've been a fan of @trupatrupa.bsky.social for many years now. Reading what @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social has been doing outside the band is fascinating and vital...

To show the next generation the horrors of the Holocaust, we need to learn from David Lynch | Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

Here is my essay for @theguardian.com, in which I write about David Lynch, The Zone of Interest, the commandant’s villa in Sztutowo, and the ways we talk about violence and history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An excerpt from Piotr Jacoń’s ‘Bez polityki’ program. The full episode can be watched on TVN (repeat broadcasts) and online: tvn24.pl/plus/program...

For the past year I've been working with Greil Marcus on his Substack. He's studied rock music and US history for over 50 years, and he's one of my all-time favorite writers. He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own! greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...

Trupa Trupa Jolly New Songs! 2xLP down from £29 to £11! CD down from £14 to £4! Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

But of course mate! 💥

Our 2025 BBC 6 concert is one of the best shows of the year — according to… BBC! Thank you @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social

Tomorrow is the day. Trupa Trupa will appear on @worldcafe.bsky.social, America’s most popular public radio music show. Thank you @rahrahraina.bsky.social for having us 🖤

TVN features Trupa Trupa with commentary from our Grzegorz, @simonwilliam.bsky.social of Rolling Stone, Agnieszka Holland, and Piotr Metz. This is a sneak peek. Watch the full feature on TV or on TVN’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDie...

#topfives #gigs2025 1. Sparks - Manchester Apollo 2. Robert Forster - Band on the Wall 3. Trupa Trupa - Preston Continental 4. Field Music - BOTW 5. Ezra Furman - Liverpool Rough Trade Improved health allowed me to go to more gigs this year but then developed tinnitus which impeded 2nd half of year

Mourners in the Top 10 on Onet.pl 🖤

1/7 I’ve already wrapped up my Trupa Trupa year in review, and now it’s time for my academic and writing summary plus plans for 2026. Next year I’ll be visiting, among others, Harvard, Northwestern University, Yale University, George Mason University, Oxford

1/4 The premiere of the "Mourners" album took place in Hollywood in Los Angeles. The tour began on the West Coast, moved to the East Coast, and ended with a concert in New York City. We then returned to Europe for shows in Poland, the Netherlands, England, and Ireland.

Here’s a Boxing Day deal for ya: my Top 100 Songs of 2025, absolutely free! open.substack.com/pub/stuberma...

1/2 We couldn’t have imagined a better way to close the year and open a new one: we’ve hit #4 on @rahrahraina.bsky.social & @wxpnfm.bsky.social’s Top Ten List of the Year. To top it off, Raina hosted us on NPR’s World Cafe, America’s most popular public radio music show, where we performed Mourners

"Who among us is truly normal? Everyone has something, everyone is different, and that is precisely the new, wonderful norm . . . that so deeply irritates the far-right moralists." Beautiful essay by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Featured on Zaph Mann's - The Beat Goes On - inmemoryofjohnpeel.com/2025/12/20/t... Sister Ray by Trupa Trupa @trupatrupa.bsky.social Mourners (Glitterbeat) @Glitterbeat 2025 trupatrupa.bandcamp.com/album/mourners

“I think absurdity, together with guilt and the state of lost innocence, without melodrama or self-pity, is what most reminds me of Kafka.” Grzegorz Kwiatkowski considers the film Franz’s universal relevance. @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Hip hip hooray! “Mourners” is #2 on Polish Radio Three’s songs of the year list.

1/3 Great, great joy on my part: a jubilee issue (100 years of publication) of one of the world’s most important literary magazines, World Literature Today, has just been released.

WE’RE #6!!! Our album is #6 on Greg Kot’s Sound Opinions Best Albums of the Year list. Same list as FKA twigs, Rosalía, Stereolab, Wet Leg. We thought that was it after Rolling Stone, but nope!

Thank you very much for a wonderful evening at the Vienna International Research Center for Cultural Studies. Photo: IFK

Hello from Vienna! This evening’s event “Denkpausen mit Grzegorz Kwiatkowski” is at the International Centre for Cultural Research. In the photo: St. Marx Cemetery, one of Vienna’s most beautiful spots and where Mozart is buried. Just next to it is a small cemetery beehive.

Indie rock anthem “Mourners” by the Polish band Trupa Trupa has been ranked among the best songs of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

We’re in Gazeta Wyborcza’s Top Ten Albums of the Year! wyborcza.pl/7,113768,324...

I really like this photo illustrating the roughly Rolling Stone–related article. www.trojmiasto.pl/rozrywka/Mou... Photo by Piotr Hukało / Trojmiasto.pl

W rankingu 100 najlepszych songów roku 2025 wg legendarnego magazynu @rollingstone.com na 76 miejscu znalazła się ta pieśń polskiej kapeli @trupatrupa.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfKI... Ranking tu: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Hooray! We are on @rollingstone.com list of best songs of the year! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I invite you to a meeting with me at Northwestern University in Chicago. This will be my second time at this university, at the invitation of the wonderful Professor Rachel Jamison Webster, and the poster below was created by Colin Pope.

Just arrived in the mail! I’m holding in my hand Daniel Rachel’s latest book This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, the Rough Trade Book of the Year, the book that ends with the story of my fight against fascist windmills (the real kind).

One more photo from the November Oxford University panel “What about exclusion?” The next edition will take place in the spring! Photo by Sanskruti Biswal.

demo session photos: Tomasz Pawluczuk

Hip hip hooray for Idan Weiss’s nomination for the European Film Awards for his title role in Kafka directed by A. Holland! A wonderful, brilliant, truly masterful performance that reminds me of young Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse, also directed by Holland. Go go go FRANZ!

FRANZ arrives in French cinemas on November 19. Here’s the poster spotted today in Paris. Not to be missed. Photo: Jarosław Orłowski

A Gdańsk post-screening conversation about Franz Kafka, directed by Agnieszka Holland, takes place tomorrow at the Museum of the Second World War. After the screening I’ll talk with Marcin Mindykowski about Kafka’s writing, Holland’s film, and the music of Trupa Trupa.

The Cheuse Center has published an essay about my work and recent stay in the US: cheusecenter.gmu.edu/articles/22778 Thanks to Chris Baah for his insight and patience. In April I’ll return to Washington for a talk with Malte Herwig, with Colm Tóibín among the speakers.

Speech at the European Parliament. Photo: Kevin Winiker.

“Dzień Dobry TVN” filmed a piece about our Grzegorz - with a lot of our music inside, including footage from our recent Kafka concert at All About Freedom. Here’s an excerpt. The full version is at: dziendobry.tvn.pl/gwiazdy/grze...

I’ve just arrived at the European Parliament, and my speech will start after 6 p.m. - all as part of the Parliament of Pop event 🖤

A conversation about Kafka Trupa and a few other topics on Český rozhlas Vltava. vltava.rozhlas.cz/ztracime-nad...