Live Shows
After the amazing 2024 edition, which had Pulp, Lana del Rey and PJ Harvey as big winners, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival has today announced the line-up for the 2025 edition, which will take place from 5 to 7 June 2025 at its usual venue, the Parc del Fòrum. The 23rd edition of the festival in
The Japanese band Babymetal, at the forefront of what has been dubbed cute metal, kawaii metal or kawaii core in their mix of j-pop and metal, have just announced a tour of major European venues to present their latest album The Other One (2023), following on from the concert that brought them to this year’s
After the success of the 2024 edition, where we were able to enjoy The Smashing Pumpkins and Kasabian, Festival Cruïlla, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, has just announced the first names for the 2025 edition, which will take place from the 9th to the 12th of July 2025 at its usual venue,
Panda Bear, the solo project fronted by Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox, has today confirmed a new solo album for February 2025 and a world tour for late 2024 and early 2025, with Toro y Moi opening for him in some US and Canadian cities. The album, entitled Sinister Grift, will be released on 28 February
After touring the last two summers as part of a number of festivals (see our chronicle of Cruïlla 2023), The Offspring have announced today that they will be touring Europe in 2025 to promote their latest album Supercharged (2024), which was released last Friday. The tour, which has already included dates in South Africa, the
American band Touché Amoré, one of the spearheads of contemporary post-hardcore, have just announced a European tour in support of their long-awaited new album, Spiral In A Straight Line (2024), which will be released on Friday 11 October and features collaborations with Julien Baker and Lou Barlow (Dinosaur JR, Sebadoh). The tour, which kicks off
The 26th edition of the Banco Mediolanum Festival Mil-lenni, which runs from October to May and takes place in various venues in Barcelona such as the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Sala La Paloma, has unveiled a host of names in its line-up. This year’s edition offers a
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have just announced the extension of their 2025 European tour, which previously only included concerts in Marseille, Prague and Milan. The tour, which kicks off in Manchester on 17 May, includes cities in England, France, Germany and Spain that will not be visited on the same tour in
Chicago band Wilco have just announced a short European tour for June 2025, visiting Belgium, Germany, the UK and Spain. After kicking off the tour at the Olt Rivierenhof festival in the countryside near Antwerp on 16 June, the close-up concert format will continue in Germany with shows at the Dachauer Musiksommer and JunkYard Open
North American Maya Hawke has just announced the release of her new EP Clipped Wings (2024) on 4 October via Mom+Pop, as well as the dates of a world tour that will take her to the USA and Canada in March and April 2025, and then to Europe in June and July. This EP, which
