Primavera Sound 2024

[BA_Barrabus]

How many acts do you generally try to see/actually see per day?

[Granny-Smith]

Need somebody a VIP ticket for Porto?

[Drums Please Fab]

1 minute ago, BA_Barrabus said:

How many acts do you generally try to see/actually see per day?

Last couple of years im getting to the festival later and later each day. arriving at 9pm ish.

3 acts and then off to the dance music area.

[Fabrizzo]

6 minutes ago, BA_Barrabus said:

How many acts do you generally try to see/actually see per day?

My record is 10 concerts in one day (starting early at the Auditori) but I would recommend not seeing more than 5/6 to enjoy them well

[LMDS]

Well, I’ve prepared a super brief summary of the artists playing (a couple of words for each one) sorted by genres to make it easier to find performances that might interest you.

I skipped most of the headliners and 2nd line names because I consider everyone knows already about them, and also I skipped as well some djs I didn’t know very well. If you want to listen to the music of any specific artist in the list I suggest you this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yq4iaXGrLa69oHXGm9olQ 

 

Here we go!

 

Indie (and shoegaze, dreampop, psych..)

Yo La Tengo is one of the festival's main names. The New Jersey trio has had a practically impeccable discography since the late 80s if you're into indie/noisepop. Blonde Redhead could be considered as one of the comebacks of this edition. I lost track of them in the 2010s after amazing dreampop albums like 23 and Misery Is a Butterfly but with their work in 2023 they still seem to have it. Slow Pulp is one of the bands I'm most looking forward to seeing in this genre, as I don't think they have ever come to Spain and they will finally do so with one of the albums of the year, created in a cabin in Wisconsin. Yeule is another expected artist for me, I’d call her music something like glitch-noisepop, synth-shoegaze or chill-dreampop-wave. Ethel Cain is a young dreampop singer-songwriter gaining a lot of hype lately (from sitting in the front row at Florence & The Machine's concerts to opening for her). The Last Dinner Party, with only 4 songs (when this is being written) are probably the it-band of the year. Kind of a Fleetwood Mac-esque indie rock with some drops of glam. Nieve Ella, despite her name, isn’t Spanish but a young UK debut artist who started out by uploading her music to tiktok before making the leap to the indie scene. The Lemon Twigs is a duo formed by prolific and all-rounder brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario, who are truly enthusiasts of the late 60s and 70s music. Crumb is a psychedelic pop band based in Brooklyn who have recently collaborated with Melody’s Echo Chamber. Silica Gel is also good neo-psychedelia but from South Korea, anyone said K-Psych? Whatever. Water From Your Eyes were the supporter band from last Interpol tour here, but they are more into something we could call “hyper-rock” (experimental+artpop+postpunk+psych). Model/Actriz will bring to the Parc del Forum that dance-punk we don’t see since the last DFA days in the late 2000s, but with more noise on it. Sophia Chablau e Uma Enorme Perda de Tempo is a funny indie and postpunk band from Brasil. Another comeback is that of the underground band Voxtrot, jangle-pop for Belle & Sebastian and Smiths fans. Royel Otis were the authors of the soundtrack of the line-up video, fresh indie and jangle-pop from Australia in the vein of The Drums. Ratboys is like a hidden piece of indie with a little bit of country. And not precisely indie is Dogstar (Keanu Reeves’ project, yes, that Keanu Reeves), post-grunge if any, or “alternative” rock (maybe even without the “alternative”) but I had to sort it somewhere. Not my cup of tea but some may find it interesting. Last, but not least, if you don’t mind the language but the indie spirit, here you have a few acts from Spain and LATAM that you’ll like to discover: Aiko el Grupo (twee pop-punk with guitars and synths), Depresión Sonora (coldwave and postpunk revival), Él mato a un Policía Motorizado (Argentinian noise pop à la Pavement, Primavera Sound trademark), Ferran Palau (catalan bedroom pop), Lisasinson (noise pop-punk) and Viuda (profane and dark postpunk). 

Punk / garage / hardcore / metal

Girls to the front! Bikini Kill are riot grrrl legend commanded by Kathleen Hanna, we’re waiting their gig in Primavera since ¿2020? and I even doubted about skip listing them here as I did with the headliners. Mannequin Pussy ingredients are “riot grrrl, indie punk, hardcore, powerpop, kim deal, may contain traces of noise (more)”. Amyl & The Sniffers, thrashing and energetic garage punk from Australia. Mujeres are also one the festival’s regulars, not a female band despite their name, but a garage and power pop act from Barcelona. Militarie Gun will be filling the Turnstile’s post-hardcore slot this year. Another two recent hardcore-punk sensations are Scowl and Gel. A Spanish post-hardocre comeback is Lisabö, from the Basque Country. Shellac, Steve Albini’s band (producer of Nirvana, Pixies et al.) are playing every year as permanent guests at the festival, in case anyone has missed them. The mysterious and ever-changing project The Armed deserve a listen to their chameleonic post-hardcore with contributions of Iggy Pop and Julien Baker. Tropical f**k Storm are expected to develop on stage their noisy experimental rock and Brutus will be equally commited to their post-hardcore/metal/rock. And in the darkest side of the festival we’ll find Chelsea Wolfe’s ethereal doom metal and Wiegedood‘s atmospheric black metal.

Emo / Slowcore / Singer-songwriters

Let’s begin this soft side of the fest with emo icons American Football who are again active after a looooong hiatus. Also sharing some slacker rock but more into slowcore are Duster, coming back after almost 20 years and being a bit viral since their music captures perfectly some moods in tiktok. More slowcore (but indieish) with Scottish myth Arab Strap, also returning in this decade. More 90s/00s reminiscence with the chamber pop/country of Lambchop. And some female singer-songwriters you won't want to miss in the early evening are the growing star Faye Webster who is becoming bigger everyday, Jessica Pratt with her anachronic voice,  the depth of Julie Byrne and Elliott Smith and Daniel Johnston fan Joanna Sternberg.

Folk / World music

The folk counterpoint is provided by irish folk music of Lankum, one of the most interesting bands of this edition with one of the albums of the year. Channel One will be in charge of bringing Jamaican music to the Forum. Balming Tiger are experimental hiphop and alternative K-pop from Korea. The recent addition to the line-up Atarashii Gakko! Use to play J-pop, J-rock and synth-funk. And Portuguese Rita Vian uses to play kind of electronic fado. 

Minimal and Ambient

Less is more, so here you’ll find: the minimalism of Charlemagne Palestine, the acclaimed and awaited minimal ambient of William Basinski who will be performing Disintegration Loops, minimal techno from Monolake, more ambient from Space Afrika, ambient pop and minival wave from HTRK and the dark ambient of Wolf Eyes who could be also listed in the noise section.

Experimental & Jazz

Shabaka (Hutchings, obviously, if you were asking), the sax behind The Comet Is Coming and Sons of Kemet, now in a solo act. BADBADNOTGOOD is jazz fusion directly from Canada, considered by some as instrumental hiphop and having remixed (reconstructed I’d say) Turnstile recently. The avantgarde and nu-jazz of Nala Sinephro got her Space 1.8 album awarded as AOTY in many music media. The unclassifiable Mount Kimbie productions can range from Future Garage to Dubstep, Indietronica and Post-Punk. Eartheater can blend together art pop with psychedelic folk and electronic. Also Phew plays with art pop routing it from drone to post-punk. And belgian Nazar will be performing live in the fest his post-industrial kuduro.

Hip hop

Quite exclusive and reputed hiphop this year besides big names like last year’s Kendrick. If Badbadnotgood are middle term between jazz and hiphop, so is reputed Billy Woods with its abstract and experimental rap. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, big names in the genre will join forces to mark the tenth anniversary of their joint album Piñata. Clipse is the exclusive reunion of the brothers of Pusha T and Malice in the project they use to have in those The Neptunes days produced by Pharrell. Roc Marciano is a gangsta rapper from the east coast who has worked with the Alchemist. And F.R.A.C. (Foundation of Atypical Rappers from Cádiz) is an Andalusian rap gang with comical lyrics.

R&B

Amaarae is one of my main 2024’s reccomendations. But this genre is quite well represented in the lineup: we also have the legendary Jai Paul, as influential as elusive, reappearing unexpectedly after a decade in the Shadow. Also Omar Apollo, adding a bit of neosoul and bedroom pop to the equation. Slightly more alternative is Tirzah, with a promising new record this year. And maybe other of my favourites is 070 Shake who already was in PS19 and released in 2020 a bright record. A promising new artist might be Obongjayar who may be you familiar to you from his collaborations with Fred Again.. and Little Simz. And if you opt for an electronic and glitchy alternative r&b we have Sega Bodega.

Disco and Synthpop

Róisín Murphy (former Moloko singer) signed one of the best albums of the year with her house-pop, run and catch her onstage before she screws up with another unfortunate transphobic comment that would lead her mostly queer audience to cancel her. Romy (from The XX) debuted with another great synthpop/dance/house album of this 2023. More synthpop and good vibes onstage with Roosevelt. And with a specially good live (imho) are L’Imperatrice, funky synthpop and nu-disco with a frech touch. Don’t miss them if you like that music. Also from Frace comes the humorous dance music of Teki Latex. From Italy the mysterious and masked Liberato find a place for the tradizione napoletana among the contemporary sounds like future bass. In Spain we can find nice synthpop songs in catalá from Renaldo & Clara and from Andorra there are some synthpop in spanish language from julia amor.

Pop / Hyperpop / Pc Music

Charli XCX is (imo) the true icon and curator of the festival’s New Normal, above Yung Beef or whoever. She has played in 2019, twice in 2022 and even appeared partying in the PC Muisc a la ciutat show. She will be again in 2024 (only resting in 2023 since the New Normal concept started) and everyone who has worked with her has also come to the fest (Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, Christine & The Queens, Sky Ferreira, Clairo, Yaeji, Big Freedia, Cupcakke, Pabllo Vittar, Mykki Blanco, Danny L Harle…), and this year is the time of pop stars Troye Sivan and Kim Petras (who is repeating), and a couple of colleagues from PC Music as producer A.G. Cook, shiny pop star Hannah Diamond and chameleonic Dorian Electra, all of them repeating presence in Primavera Sound. We could also add to this basket Madonna’s daughter Lolahol, and Daniela Lalita (despite I don’t know very well her work, she comes from being featured in Mura Masa’s songs “Love” and “Drugs”, but maybe she opt for a more urban sound let’s see). From Spain we have Hofe, who use to work along with 4:40, and a real extravaganza worthy of the nerdiest of freaks: Stella Maris, the fictional “catholic band” from TV series La Mesías, formed by beloved singer Amaia and other actresses and with their music produced by Hidrogenesse, the “spanish Sparks” and another Primavera regulars.

Electronic, House, Techno…

I’m sorry I’m not really that much into electronic so I’ll skip most of the djs I don’t know, but let’s go with the acts I do know: Korean deep house and nu-disco artist Peggy Gou is coming back to the fest as one of the big electronic names (besides Disclosure, Justice..) after her hit “(It goes like) Nanana” went viral this summer. Peruvian artist Sofia Kourtesis will follow the deep house cuts but this time with a latin touch. And there will be no shortage of deep house / nu-disco this year with Barry Can’t Swim. The founder of Hyperdub label, Kode 9, specialises in Dubstep and UK Bass. And the EBM will be provided by

Mandy, Indiana. The reputed soundtrack composer and producer Mica Levi (aka Micachu) will be doing a dj set, and you could also try the showcase of Herrensauna (CEM b2b MCMLXXXV, Salome & SPFDJ) one of the highlights in the djs section. The Blessed Madonna will bring more nu-disco and deep house to the sunday brunch to try to make us dance, and with her will be Chlóe Caillet, Anotr and Mochakk. 

Urban, Latin Trap and Reggaeton

Yes, despite what Gabi said, there is still some. Let’s start with Arca, whom I wouldn’t know where to classify with her deconstructed and glitch club music with latin notes. Maybe in experimental? I’d also highlight the urban pop of argentinian Dillom. More obvious is Rels B, trap and dancehall for Bad Gyal fans. MJ Nebreda will show us her “changa tuki” a new latin genre from Venezuela mixing 90s electronic with new sounds. Spanish trap queen La Zowi returns to Primavera one more time to prove who is “La Reina del Sur”. Milo J is another trap artist from Argentina who has been recording with the successful and viral producer Bizarrap. Puerto Rican YOVNGCHIMI has worked with people like Bad Bunny and Mora. Pelada is a vindictive project from Canada focused in latin music and electronic. And I’d close with DJ Playero, an unexpected regular of this festival, back in action after blazing the trail in the glory days of old reggaeton.

Delving into the Spanish music scene

Besides some other acts already mentioned in each category, there is also some music with a specific Spanish touch waiting to cross borders. Derby Motoreta's Burrito Kachimba blends modern (heavy) psych with “Andalusian rock” (a 70’s mixture of Flamenco and prog-rock). Ángeles, Victor, Gloria y Javier is a recent supergroup formed by flamenco singer Ángeles Toledano, psych musician Victor Cabezuelo (from Rufus T. Firefly), jazz drummer Gloria Maurel and electronic music producer Javier Martín. Merina Gris is electropop in euskera language from Basque Country. Cómo Vivir en el Campo is underground indie pop from Madrid. Maria Hein is a Balearic indie pop-folk singer/songwriter. Guillem Gisbert is the solo project from the leader of Manel, the catalá indie band that have been playing in previous editions. And María Jaume is another catalá singer-songwriter.

That's all, I hope you find it useful 🙂

Edited November 28, 2023 by LMDS

[bluenova]

7 minutes ago, LMDS said:

Well, I’ve prepared a super brief summary of the artists playing (a couple of words for each one) sorted by genres to make it easier to find performances that might interest you.

I skipped most of the headliners and 2nd line names because I consider everyone knows already about them, and also I skipped as well some djs I didn’t know very well. If you want to listen to the music of any specific artist in the list I suggest you this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yq4iaXGrLa69oHXGm9olQ 

 

Here we go!

 

Indie (and shoegaze, dreampop, psych..)

Yo La Tengo is one of the festival's main names. The New Jersey trio has had a practically impeccable discography since the late 80s if you're into indie/noisepop. Blonde Redhead could be considered as one of the comebacks of this edition. I lost track of them in the 2010s after amazing dreampop albums like 23 and Misery Is a Butterfly but with their work in 2023 they still seem to have it. Slow Pulp is one of the bands I'm most looking forward to seeing in this genre, as I don't think they have ever come to Spain and they will finally do so with one of the albums of the year, created in a cabin in Wisconsin. Yeule is another expected artist for me, I’d call her music something like glitch-noisepop, synth-shoegaze or chill-dreampop-wave. Ethel Cain is a young dreampop singer-songwriter gaining a lot of hype lately (from sitting in the front row at Florence & The Machine's concerts to opening for her). The Last Dinner Party, with only 4 songs (when this is being written) are probably the it-band of the year. Kind of a Fleetwood Mac-esque indie rock with some drops of glam. Nieve Ella, despite her name, isn’t Spanish but a young UK debut artist who started out by uploading her music to tiktok before making the leap to the indie scene. The Lemon Twigs is a duo formed by prolific and all-rounder brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario, who are truly enthusiasts of the late 60s and 70s music. Crumb is a psychedelic pop band based in Brooklyn who have recently collaborated with Melody’s Echo Chamber. Silica Gel is also good neo-psychedelia but from South Korea, anyone said K-Psych? Whatever. Water From Your Eyes were the supporter band from last Interpol tour here, but they are more into something we could call “hyper-rock” (experimental+artpop+postpunk+psych). Model/Actriz will bring to the Parc del Forum that dance-punk we don’t see since the last DFA days in the late 2000s, but with more noise on it. Sophia Chablau e Uma Enorme Perda de Tempo is a funny indie and postpunk band from Brasil. Another comeback is that of the underground band Voxtrot, jangle-pop for Belle & Sebastian and Smiths fans. Royel Otis were the authors of the soundtrack of the line-up video, fresh indie and jangle-pop from Australia in the vein of The Drums. Ratboys is like a hidden piece of indie with a little bit of country. And not precisely indie is Dogstar (Keanu Reeves’ project, yes, that Keanu Reeves), post-grunge if any, or “alternative” rock (maybe even without the “alternative”) but I had to sort it somewhere. Not my cup of tea but some may find it interesting. Last, but not least, if you don’t mind the language but the indie spirit, here you have a few acts from Spain and LATAM that you’ll like to discover: Aiko el Grupo (twee pop-punk with guitars and synths), Depresión Sonora (coldwave and postpunk revival), Él mato a un Policía Motorizado (Argentinian noise pop à la Pavement, Primavera Sound trademark), Ferran Palau (catalan bedroom pop), Lisasinson (noise pop-punk) and Viuda (profane and dark postpunk). 

Punk / garage / hardcore / metal

Girls to the front! Bikini Kill are riot grrrl legend commanded by Kathleen Hanna, we’re waiting their gig in Primavera since ¿2020? and I even doubted about skip listing them here as I did with the headliners. Mannequin Pussy ingredients are “riot grrrl, indie punk, hardcore, powerpop, kim deal, may contain traces of noise (more)”. Amyl & The Sniffers, thrashing and energetic garage punk from Australia. Mujeres are also one the festival’s regulars, not a female band despite their name, but a garage and power pop act from Barcelona. Militarie Gun will be filling the Turnstile’s post-hardcore slot this year. Another two recent hardcore-punk sensations are Scowl and Gel. A Spanish post-hardocre comeback is Lisabö, from the Basque Country. Shellac, Steve Albini’s band (producer of Nirvana, Pixies et al.) are playing every year as permanent guests at the festival, in case anyone has missed them. The mysterious and ever-changing project The Armed deserve a listen to their chameleonic post-hardcore with contributions of Iggy Pop and Julien Baker. Tropical f**k Storm are expected to develop on stage their noisy experimental rock and Brutus will be equally commited to their post-hardcore/metal/rock. And in the darkest side of the festival we’ll find Chelsea Wolfe’s ethereal doom metal and Wiegedood‘s atmospheric black metal.

Emo / Slowcore / Singer-songwriters

Let’s begin this soft side of the fest with emo icons American Football who are again active after a looooong hiatus. Also sharing some slacker rock but more into slowcore are Duster, coming back after almost 20 years and being a bit viral since their music captures perfectly some moods in tiktok. More slowcore (but indieish) with Scottish myth Arab Strap, also returning in this decade. More 90s/00s reminiscence with the chamber pop/country of Lambchop. And some female singer-songwriters you won't want to miss in the early evening are the growing star Faye Webster who is becoming bigger everyday, Jessica Pratt with her anachronic voice,  the depth of Julie Byrne and Elliott Smith and Daniel Johnston fan Joanna Sternberg.

Folk / World music

The folk counterpoint is provided by irish folk music of Lankum, one of the most interesting bands of this edition with one of the albums of the year. Channel One will be in charge of bringing Jamaican music to the Forum. Balming Tiger are experimental hiphop and alternative K-pop from Korea. The recent addition to the line-up Atarashii Gakko! Use to play J-pop, J-rock and synth-funk. And Portuguese Rita Vian uses to play kind of electronic fado. 

Minimal and Ambient

Less is more, so here you’ll find: the minimalism of Charlemagne Palestine, the acclaimed and awaited minimal ambient of William Basinski who will be performing Disintegration Loops, minimal techno from Monolake, more ambient from Space Afrika, ambient pop and minival wave from HTRK and the dark ambient of Wolf Eyes who could be also listed in the noise section.

Experimental & Jazz

Shabaka (Hutchings, obviously, if you were asking), the sax behind The Comet Is Coming and Sons of Kemet, now in a solo act. BADBADNOTGOOD is jazz fusion directly from Canada, considered by some as instrumental hiphop and having remixed (reconstructed I’d say) Turnstile recently. The avantgarde and nu-jazz of Nala Sinephro got her Space 1.8 album awarded as AOTY in many music media. The unclassifiable Mount Kimbie productions can range from Future Garage to Dubstep, Indietronica and Post-Punk. Eartheater can blend together art pop with psychedelic folk and electronic. Also Phew plays with art pop routing it from drone to post-punk. And belgian Nazar will be performing live in the fest his post-industrial kuduro.

Hip hop

Quite exclusive and reputed hiphop this year besides big names like last year’s Kendrick. If Badbadnotgood are middle term between jazz and hiphop, so is reputed Billy Woods with its abstract and experimental rap. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, big names in the genre will join forces to mark the tenth anniversary of their joint album Piñata. Clipse is the exclusive reunion of the brothers of Pusha T and Malice in the project they use to have in those The Neptunes days produced by Pharrell. Roc Marciano is a gangsta rapper from the east coast who has worked with the Alchemist. And F.R.A.C. (Foundation of Atypical Rappers from Cádiz) is an Andalusian rap gang with comical lyrics.

R&B

Amaarae is one of my main 2024’s reccomendations. But this genre is quite well represented in the lineup: we also have the legendary Jai Paul, as influential as elusive, reappearing unexpectedly after a decade in the Shadow. Also Omar Apollo, adding a bit of neosoul and bedroom pop to the equation. Slightly more alternative is Tirzah, with a promising new record this year. And maybe other of my favourites is 070 Shake who already was in PS19 and released in 2020 a bright record. A promising new artist might be Obongjayar who may be you familiar to you from his collaborations with Fred Again.. and Little Simz. And if you opt for an electronic and glitchy alternative r&b we have Sega Bodega.

Disco and Synthpop

Róisín Murphy (former Moloko singer) signed one of the best albums of the year with her house-pop, run and catch her onstage before she screws up with another unfortunate transphobic comment that would lead her mostly queer audience to cancel her. Romy (from The XX) debuted with another great synthpop/dance/house album of this 2023. More synthpop and good vibes onstage with Roosevelt. And with a specially good live (imho) are L’Imperatrice, funky synthpop and nu-disco with a frech touch. Don’t miss them if you like that music. Also from Frace comes the humorous dance music of Teki Latex. From Italy the mysterious and masked Liberato find a place for the tradizione napoletana among the contemporary sounds like future bass. In Spain we can find nice synthpop songs in catalá from Renaldo & Clara and from Andorra there are some synthpop in spanish language from julia amor.

Pop / Hyperpop / Pc Music

Charli XCX is (imo) the true icon and curator of the festival’s New Normal, above Yung Beef or whoever. She has played in 2019, twice in 2022 and even appeared partying in the PC Muisc a la ciutat show. She will be again in 2024 (only resting in 2023 since the New Normal concept started) and everyone who has worked with her has also come to the fest (Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, Christine & The Queens, Sky Ferreira, Clairo, Yaeji, Big Freedia, Cupcakke, Pabllo Vittar, Mykki Blanco, Danny L Harle…), and this year is the time of pop stars Troye Sivan and Kim Petras (who is repeating), and a couple of colleagues from PC Music as producer A.G. Cook, shiny pop star Hannah Diamond and chameleonic Dorian Electra, all of them repeating presence in Primavera Sound. We could also add to this basket Madonna’s daughter Lolahol, and Daniela Lalita (despite I don’t know very well her work, she comes from being featured in Mura Masa’s songs “Love” and “Drugs”, but maybe she opt for a more urban sound let’s see). From Spain we have Hofe, who use to work along with 4:40, and a real extravaganza worthy of the nerdiest of freaks: Stella Maris, the fictional “catholic band” from TV series La Mesías, formed by beloved singer Amaia and other actresses and with their music produced by Hidrogenesse, the “spanish Sparks” and another Primavera regulars.

Electronic, House, Techno…

I’m sorry I’m not really that much into electronic so I’ll skip most of the djs I don’t know, but let’s go with the acts I do know: Korean deep house and nu-disco artist Peggy Gou is coming back to the fest as one of the big electronic names (besides Disclosure, Justice..) after her hit “(It goes like) Nanana” went viral this summer. Peruvian artist Sofia Kourtesis will follow the deep house cuts but this time with a latin touch. And there will be no shortage of deep house / nu-disco this year with Barry Can’t Swim. The founder of Hyperdub label, Kode 9, specialises in Dubstep and UK Bass. And the EBM will be provided by

Mandy, Indiana. The reputed soundtrack composer and producer Mica Levi (aka Micachu) will be doing a dj set, and you could also try the showcase of Herrensauna (CEM b2b MCMLXXXV, Salome & SPFDJ) one of the highlights in the djs section. The Blessed Madonna will bring more nu-disco and deep house to the sunday brunch to try to make us dance, and with her will be Chlóe Caillet, Anotr and Mochakk. 

Urban, Latin Trap and Reggaeton

Yes, despite what Gabi said, there is still some. Let’s start with Arca, whom I wouldn’t know where to classify with her deconstructed and glitch club music with latin notes. Maybe in experimental? I’d also highlight the urban pop of argentinian Dillom. More obvious is Rels B, trap and dancehall for Bad Gyal fans. MJ Nebreda will show us her “changa tuki” a new latin genre from Venezuela mixing 90s electronic with new sounds. Spanish trap queen La Zowi returns to Primavera one more time to prove who is “La Reina del Sur”. Milo J is another trap artist from Argentina who has been recording with the successful and viral producer Bizarrap. Puerto Rican YOVNGCHIMI has worked with people like Bad Bunny and Mora. Pelada is a vindictive project from Canada focused in latin music and electronic. And I’d close with DJ Playero, an unexpected regular of this festival, back in action after blazing the trail in the glory days of old reggaeton.

Delving into the Spanish music scene

Besides some other acts already mentioned in each category, there is also some music with a specific Spanish touch waiting to cross borders. Derby Motoreta's Burrito Kachimba blends modern (heavy) psych with “Andalusian rock” (a 70’s mixture of Flamenco and prog-rock). Ángeles, Victor, Gloria y Javier is a recent supergroup formed by flamenco singer Ángeles Toledano, psych musician Victor Cabezuelo (from Rufus T. Firefly), jazz drummer Gloria Maurel and electronic music producer Javier Martín. Merina Gris is electropop in euskera language from Basque Country. Cómo Vivir en el Campo is underground indie pop from Madrid. Maria Hein is a Balearic indie pop-folk singer/songwriter. Guillem Gisbert is the solo project from the leader of Manel, the catalá indie band that have been playing in previous editions. And María Jaume is another catalá singer-songwriter.

That's all, I hope you find it useful 🙂

That's brilliant. Having listened to the playlist, I'm amazed the Spanish section is actually so small 🙂

I went to The New Normal one in 2019, and felt that there 50:50 was too poppy, and neglected the indie side of things. Feels like the undercard is a bit more balanced this time around.

[xxialac]

40 minutes ago, LMDS said:

Well, I’ve prepared a super brief summary of the artists playing.

Absolutely excellent, yes, but hmm on the “super brief” description 😉

[Whos3000_]

1 hour ago, BA_Barrabus said:

How many acts do you generally try to see/actually see per day?

The last two years I went to the festival at around 5/5.30 pm on average starting from the auditorium and finished at least after 4 am every night. This allows you to see around 10 acts per day if you keep a tight schedule. my friends told me it was too much for them lol 

[xxialac]

Another element you shouldn't overlook with Porto is the weather. Have only been three times and two had days which had biblical levels of rain (causing cancellations one time).

Can only be brilliant sunshine but worth noting.

Whereas Barcelona in early June is as reliable as it gets weather-wise.

[pipan]

As for the day splits, I think it's not that uneven than last year, but right now, I would say that Thursday is easily the best, other two days are quite similar.

Thrusday >>> Saturday > Friday

[pipan]

2 hours ago, BA_Barrabus said:

How many acts do you generally try to see/actually see per day?

Last year's statistics:

10 / 7 / 8

We arrive just in time to see the first interesting name of the day which is usually (or maybe even always) between 4 p.m. and 6. p.m.

I always plan the programme until the morning but with such early start, we rarely manage to stay that late (last year, we failed this challenge three times).

[festivalguy97]

45 minutes ago, pipan said:

Last year's statistics:

10 / 7 / 8

We arrive just in time to see the first interesting name of the day which is usually (or maybe even always) between 4 p.m. and 6. p.m.

I always plan the programme until the morning but with such early start, we rarely manage to stay that late (last year, we failed this challenge three times).

The good thing about Barcelona is that commuting to and from is super easy. In Madrid I was leaving very early every day cause that commute was horrible. 

[pipan]

What headliner are you most excited to see?

Right after the line-up release I would have said Justice (they were my wet dream for PS 24). But after a week and seeing a lot of youtube videos, if there was only one headliner I could see, I would choose Vampire Weekend. Never seen them live and I actually forgot how many great songs they have.

[pipan]

6 minutes ago, festivalguy97 said:

The good thing about Barcelona is that commuting to and from is super easy. In Madrid I was leaving very early every day cause that commute was horrible. 

Exactly, you can easily sleep until noon or even later, have some nice lazy brunch in the city and still be at the venue without any complications whenever your first desired concert begins.

[emmanuel]

3 hours ago, Drums Please Fab said:

Kevin Spacey has been acquitted on both sides of the water for "allegations". 

Like it or not, the courts is the only place these things should get judged.

The same law that protects all of us..

And so what? He is a creep, an awful person just from what he admitted and his reactions are even worse (see a few post above). I would have lost my job if I did just what he admitted (I'm a teacher), and that's not even including what the "allegations". People just want a safe space and have the right to avoid him and his band, and that has nothing to do if he goes to court or not.

[Marty76]

12 minutes ago, pipan said:

What headliner are you most excited to see?

Right after the line-up release I would have said Justice (they were my wet dream for PS 24). But after a week and seeing a lot of youtube videos, if there was only one headliner I could see, I would choose Vampire Weekend. Never seen them live and I actually forgot how many great songs they have.

FKA Twigs for me. Never seen her before and really curious what the show will be like.

[pipan]

Someone's already made a fantasy clashfinder for the whole festival, if anyone's interested:

https://clashfinder.com/s/primavera2024mock/

Edited November 28, 2023 by pipan

[JedTheHumanoid]

8 minutes ago, pipan said:

Someone's already made a fantasy clashfinder for the whole festival, if anyone's interested:

https://clashfinder.com/s/primavera2024mock/

What kind of masochist you should be clash Beth Gibbons with both Vampire Weekend and Pulp in your imaginary clashfinder??

[xxialac]

Ugh, only serves to highlight how impossibly stacked Thursday is vs Friday which is wafer thin.

[Whos3000_]

10 minutes ago, JedTheHumanoid said:

What kind of masochist you should be clash Beth Gibbons with both Vampire Weekend and Pulp in your imaginary clashfinder??

Someone who thinks like the enemy. One of the best clashfinders made in these years imo. It will be different but exactly this painful 

[JedTheHumanoid]

16 minutes ago, Whos3000_ said:

Someone who thinks like the enemy. One of the best clashfinders made in these years imo. It will be different but exactly this painful 

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best?

[Last_Exit]

This!

1 hour ago, xxialac said:

Ugh, only serves to highlight how impossibly stacked Thursday is vs Friday which is wafer thin.

Thursday is outrageously good (but bad for viewing), especially in that clash finder! Friday needs some discoveries for me, and a bit more filler. Saturday is grand.

Last years numbers - Thursday (9), Friday (8), Saturday (8).

 

[Memory Man]

10 hours ago, xxialac said:

Ugh, only serves to highlight how impossibly stacked Thursday is vs Friday which is wafer thin.

Agreed. The clashfinder format made me realise thursday will be unavoidable clash hell. Might book an early dinner on friday 😂

[pipan]

The first deep analysis of the line-up is done and these are the results:

MUST-SEES: 5

WANT-SEES: 22 (I'm sure some of them will move up to MUST-SEES later on)

HAVE-TO-CHECK: 27 (I guess probably half of them will move up later on and the other half will end in NOT-INTERESTED section)

I think the numbers are lower than last year, but the ratio is about the same - I'm (potentionally) interested in roughly one third of all the acts.

[Urchin1000]

https://clashfinder.com/m/primavera2024/?user=urchin2

Edited November 29, 2023 by Urchin1000