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Almost a year after presenting her first solo album, Lives Outgrown (2024), at Primavera Sound 2024, Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons returned to Barcelona to perform at the Les Nits de Barcelona festival.. Her emotional, melancholic and introspective concert attracted around 1,500 spectators, who responded to the British artist’s delicate performance with sepulchral silence. The concert,
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103103 ViewsAs a journalist, it can sometimes be difficult to understand how some bands quickly go from filling medium-sized venues to headlining huge festivals, or becoming what used to be called a ‘sell-out’ band. This was the case with American band Imagine Dragons. Despite many of the songs in their setlist being considered hits, they failed
Read More117117 ViewsJust a couple of days after the official start of summer, with sweltering temperatures sweeping across much of Spain, American band HEALTH arrived in Barcelona as part of their tour to promote their latest album, Rat Wars (2023).The Los Angeles band, who had not performed in Barcelona since their incredible Pitchfork stage concert at Primavera
Read More117117 ViewsSometimes, without realising it, you come to the end of a chapter in your life, which makes you realise how old you are getting… Last Saturday, I finally got to enjoy a live performance of one of my childhood albums, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), by The Alan Parsons Live Project at the Alma
Read More126126 ViewsMany attendees arrived early at the Poble Espanyol venue wearing black tour T-shirts displaying dates from the last four decades, demonstrating the popularity of the British band The Cult in Spain, despite their regular visits to Madrid and Barcelona, including in June 2023. The Cult, Barcelona 2025 – Photo taken by Meritxell Rosell for Indieofilo©
Read More121121 ViewsIt must be acknowledged that a long debate was had among the people who are part of the Indieófilo project before these lines were written. Amidst the ongoing debate in the mainstream press regarding the presence of the pro-Israeli investment firm KKR at the Catalan festival, exacerbated by the swift responses of certain artists who
Read More124124 ViewsThe Chicago band Wilco, a familiar face in Barcelona due to their frequent performances in the city (some even remembered their concert in the same venue in one of the early editions of Primavera Sound back in 2004), were set to kick off the 3rd edition of the Alma Festival Barcelona. This event, which would
Read More109109 ViewsOne of our favourite post-metal bands, the North Americans Deafheaven, have just confirmed 25 new dates for the European tour to present their latest album, Lonely People With Power (2025), released last March 28th through Roadrunner Records. The tour begins in Glasgow on 6 November, continuing to the UK, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary
Read More121121 ViewsHamilton Leithauser, the American musician best known as the frontman of The Walkmen, has just announced a European tour in support of his latest solo album, This Side of the Island (2024), released on 7 March via Glassnote Records. The Washingtonian, whose collaborative album with Rostam of Vampire Weekend met with global acclaim in 2016,
Read More131131 ViewsAfter a Friday marked by the concerts of TV on the Radio, Carolina Durante or Zaho de Sagazan, the Primavera Sound 2025 faced its last day in the Parc del Fòrum, with the name of Chappell Roan standing out in a line-up that also counted with Fontaines D.C., LCD Soundsystem, Turnstyle, MJ Lenderman or ANOHNI
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