concerts

DUKI

Duki has became one of the most important trap artists in Argentina. His fresh style has been his sign since his firsts freestyle shows. In 2017 started to record a bunch of tracks and rapidly composedSi Te Sentis Sola, a song that became a hit and made him one of the greatest names in Argentinian trap. Since then he has been dropping singles with millions of plays likeLoca,She Don't Give a FoorSin Culpa.

NICK MURPHY fka CHET FAKER

Chet Faker’s debut,Built on Glass(Future Classic, 2014), was built on glass to such a degree that it shattered. The Australian artist, who made a name for himself as a electronic soul troubadour with the much acclaimed EPThinking In Textures(Opulent, 2012), achieved what every new artist desires with his first album: superb reviews, immediate public affection and a world tour that took him to festivals like Primavera Sound, where in 2015 he gave one of the most memorable concerts of that year.But just one year later, Chet Faker, disappeared to make way forNick Murphy, the real name of the musician born in Melbourne 30 years ago. His first song freed up from his alter ego embodied the change: “You were scared to be yourself / For no reason”, he sang onFear Less. Free and unstoppable, Nick Murphy started the rediscovery with the EPMissing Link(Future Classic, 2017) on which he delves into the most oppressive, dance floor electronic beats.And from there to the recently announcedRun Fast Sleep Naked, his first full-length as Nick Murphy will conclude the transition on April 26th. In anticipation we haveSanity, a move towards the more organic and playful sounds of his beginnings, with a surreal video recorded in the Canary Islands. And we can also give the news thatNick Murphy will play on 4thOctober in Sala Riviera in Madrid and on 5th at Sala Apolo in Barcelonaas part of the world presentation tour of what will be his second album. It will be the first time that we will be able to see the artist formerly known as Chet Faker in Spanish venues. You got to know him as Chet Faker but you now you will remember him as Nick Murphy.Tickets on sale at the price of 25 € + distribution costs + 1 € donation toPLUS1, organization which has joined forces with Nick Murphy to donate this money to initiatives that fight for the dignity, equality and access for those who need it.

NICK MURPHY fka CHET FAKER

Chet Faker’s debut,Built on Glass(Future Classic, 2014), was built on glass to such a degree that it shattered. The Australian artist, who made a name for himself as a electronic soul troubadour with the much acclaimed EPThinking In Textures(Opulent, 2012), achieved what every new artist desires with his first album: superb reviews, immediate public affection and a world tour that took him to festivals like Primavera Sound, where in 2015 he gave one of the most memorable concerts of that year.But just one year later, Chet Faker, disappeared to make way forNick Murphy, the real name of the musician born in Melbourne 30 years ago. His first song freed up from his alter ego embodied the change: “You were scared to be yourself / For no reason”, he sang onFear Less. Free and unstoppable, Nick Murphy started the rediscovery with the EPMissing Link(Future Classic, 2017) on which he delves into the most oppressive, dance floor electronic beats.And from there to the recently announcedRun Fast Sleep Naked, his first full-length as Nick Murphy will conclude the transition on April 26th. In anticipation we haveSanity, a move towards the more organic and playful sounds of his beginnings, with a surreal video recorded in the Canary Islands. And we can also give the news thatNick Murphy will play on 4thOctober in Sala Riviera in Madrid and on 5th at Sala Apolo in Barcelonaas part of the world presentation tour of what will be his second album. It will be the first time that we will be able to see the artist formerly known as Chet Faker in Spanish venues. You got to know him as Chet Faker but you now you will remember him as Nick Murphy.Tickets on sale at the price of 25 € + distribution costs + 1 € donation toPLUS1, organization which has joined forces with Nick Murphy to donate this money to initiatives that fight for the dignity, equality and access for those who need it.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD

Of course not, no way: the seven-headed dragon hadn’t gone anywhere. He was just resting. Hidden away, pausing, catching his breath. After a Guinness-like-World-Record 2017 during which they released five albums (five? Five!), the hyperactive King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard had an unusually calm 2018. Twelve months with no sign of life. In their universe, one in which a year seems to last longer than it does for the rest of us mortals, this is an eternity. But that’s enough: they need some fuzz.As if they wanted to make up for lost time quickly, the Australians came back at the end of January with seven fabulous minutes of vocoderized electro-glam on Cyboogie, their comeback single, first release from the album that will come out in April (Fishing for Fishies) the latest piece to add to an almost infinite puzzle (this isn’t hyperbole: they have released over a dozen records since 2012) that goes way beyond revival for revivals sake. Although they have always had a foot in the sixties and seventies, Stu Mackenzie and his psycho-commune have managed to create their own personal sound that can easily be identified in younger bands. It is this role as musical influencers of this decade that has come into its own with Gizzfest, the festival that they have been organising in their native Melbourne since 2015.They do not forget their home when they are travelling around the world, now in hypnotic concentric circles, now in unstoppable motorik toing and froing during long XXL tours like the one that will bring them to Madrid and Barcelona in October. We will now be meeting them again, for the first time since their show at Primavera Sound 2017, with their two drum kits, those acid-spitting synths and those jams that you never want to end. And, knowing them as we already do, the question is not what will be find in Fishing for Fishies but rather how many albums they will have released by then.

SLEEP

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD

Of course not, no way: the seven-headed dragon hadn’t gone anywhere. He was just resting. Hidden away, pausing, catching his breath. After a Guinness-like-World-Record 2017 during which they released five albums (five? Five!), the hyperactive King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard had an unusually calm 2018. Twelve months with no sign of life. In their universe, one in which a year seems to last longer than it does for the rest of us mortals, this is an eternity. But that’s enough: they need some fuzz.As if they wanted to make up for lost time quickly, the Australians came back at the end of January with seven fabulous minutes of vocoderized electro-glam on Cyboogie, their comeback single, first release from the album that will come out in April (Fishing for Fishies) the latest piece to add to an almost infinite puzzle (this isn’t hyperbole: they have released over a dozen records since 2012) that goes way beyond revival for revivals sake. Although they have always had a foot in the sixties and seventies, Stu Mackenzie and his psycho-commune have managed to create their own personal sound that can easily be identified in younger bands. It is this role as musical influencers of this decade that has come into its own with Gizzfest, the festival that they have been organising in their native Melbourne since 2015.They do not forget their home when they are travelling around the world, now in hypnotic concentric circles, now in unstoppable motorik toing and froing during long XXL tours like the one that will bring them to Madrid and Barcelona in October. We will now be meeting them again, for the first time since their show at Primavera Sound 2017, with their two drum kits, those acid-spitting synths and those jams that you never want to end. And, knowing them as we already do, the question is not what will be find in Fishing for Fishies but rather how many albums they will have released by then.

PRIESTS

What’s up with Kansas? The second album by the American trioPriestsis calledThe Seduction of Kansasbecause political science says that it is the state that usually anticipates the political direction that the United States is going to take. Because, it is worth acknowledging, that the USA is in reality that country that lies between two coasts and four time zones. And who knows if Priests are the band that will tip the scales towards the next punk, post-punk or… whatever revival.For now the band formed by Katie Alice Greer, Daniele Daniele and G.L. Jaguar presents its candidacy with a second album produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen) that goes even deeper into their critical and at times inflammatory vision of North American society. After the reorganisation of the formation after the departure of their bass player Taylor Mulitz, the new Priests are more versatile, more atmospheric and, why not, more perverse. Once again released on their own label, Sister Polygon –on which they have also published Downtown Boys, Snail Mail and Sneaks–,The Seduction of Kansaspicks up and extends the gauntlet thrown down by their acclaimed 2017 debut, with which they burst onto the scene bringing a transfusion of fresh blood that was much needed by punk.After the widely talked about presentation of that debut at Primavera Sound 2017,Priestswill show off their new skin at Sidecar in Barcelona on 29th October (at a concert organised in collaboration with the promoter Xtrarradio) and at Fun House in Madrid on 30th October (as an integral part of the SON Estrella Galicia cycle).

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX

It is so good being totally miserable and having the company of the whisper of Greg Gonzalez and hisCigarettes After Sexto feel really lonely. To have him sing in undertones that“nothing’s gonna hurt you, baby”and feeling, deep down, that you want it to happen again to go back to his beautiful tissue-songs, to those hypnotic and visceral sound oases of whispered pop that accompanies you. So that the wheel of life, love, and music by Cigarettes After Sex, starts turning once again.Every new action by the band must be embraced wholehearted. It happened with their first release,EP I, released in 2012 and after which Cigarettes After Sex maintained almost total silence until 2017, when their first album came out. Since then the fascination with Greg Gonzalez materialised thanks to his two consecutive visits to Primavera Sound (in 2017 and 2018). After 2018 when they dropped singles intermittently we now have the opportunity to meet with them again:it will be on two successive nights in the sala Apolo on 11th and 12th November, after having played at the first edition of Primavera Weekender in Benidorm. Don’t miss these opportunities, because you never know when they will come round again.

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX

It is so good being totally miserable and having the company of the whisper of Greg Gonzalez and hisCigarettes After Sexto feel really lonely. To have him sing in undertones that“nothing’s gonna hurt you, baby”and feeling, deep down, that you want it to happen again to go back to his beautiful tissue-songs, to those hypnotic and visceral sound oases of whispered pop that accompanies you. So that the wheel of life, love, and music by Cigarettes After Sex, starts turning once again.Every new action by the band must be embraced wholehearted. It happened with their first release,EP I, released in 2012 and after which Cigarettes After Sex maintained almost total silence until 2017, when their first album came out. Since then the fascination with Greg Gonzalez materialised thanks to his two consecutive visits to Primavera Sound (in 2017 and 2018). After 2018 when they dropped singles intermittently we now have the opportunity to meet with them again:it will be on two successive nights in the sala Apolo on 11th and 12th November, after having played at the first edition of Primavera Weekender in Benidorm. Don’t miss these opportunities, because you never know when they will come round again.

LOYLE CARNER

Liverpool and Tottenham had hardly been playing the Champion League final for five minutes when Loyle Carner came out on stage at the latest edition of Primavera Sound wearing a vintage Liverpool shirt. By the end of the night the English rapper was on the winning side, although he knows perfectly well that, sometimes, you don’t have to be first to win: his first album, Yesterday’s Gone (2016), didn’t get either the Mercury Prize nor the Brit Award it was nominated for. He didn’t need to. Who says that nobody remembers the runners up? Loyle bursts out laughing when he hears that.In truth, he laughs about lots of things. The man is content; he looks happy, lives peacefully. He has everything that he wants. Gold chains, litres of Dom Pérignon, a swimming pool with a mosaic of his face on the bottom? No, absolutely not: Loyle is a rapper but not that type of rapper. His life, which he delivers sometimes bound up with jazz and occasionally bound with accelerated funk and white glove hip hop, is decorating his new house with the girl he loves, walking his dog whilst mulling over a lyric that he can’t quite get right, eating Sunday lunch with his cool mum that we met on his video for You Don’t Know. You can’t ask for more. Well, you can: two equally brilliant rap records. He has those too. And at just 24 years old he has already done tracks with Jorja Smith, Sampha and Kate Tempest.The second album, the recent Not Waving, But Drowning, reinforces his position in the front line of the rap resistance in times of trap. He does not seem worried about tendencies because what he does, telling stories, will never go out of fashion. Especially with a good narrator: it is a pleasure to listen to him, whatever he says. Keep talking, Loyle, we will listen for as long as you want.

LOYLE CARNER

Liverpool and Tottenham had hardly been playing the Champion League final for five minutes when Loyle Carner came out on stage at the latest edition of Primavera Sound wearing a vintage Liverpool shirt. By the end of the night the English rapper was on the winning side, although he knows perfectly well that, sometimes, you don’t have to be first to win: his first album, Yesterday’s Gone (2016), didn’t get either the Mercury Prize nor the Brit Award it was nominated for. He didn’t need to. Who says that nobody remembers the runners up? Loyle bursts out laughing when he hears that.In truth, he laughs about lots of things. The man is content; he looks happy, lives peacefully. He has everything that he wants. Gold chains, litres of Dom Pérignon, a swimming pool with a mosaic of his face on the bottom? No, absolutely not: Loyle is a rapper but not that type of rapper. His life, which he delivers sometimes bound up with jazz and occasionally bound with accelerated funk and white glove hip hop, is decorating his new house with the girl he loves, walking his dog whilst mulling over a lyric that he can’t quite get right, eating Sunday lunch with his cool mum that we met on his video for You Don’t Know. You can’t ask for more. Well, you can: two equally brilliant rap records. He has those too. And at just 24 years old he has already done tracks with Jorja Smith, Sampha and Kate Tempest.The second album, the recent Not Waving, But Drowning, reinforces his position in the front line of the rap resistance in times of trap. He does not seem worried about tendencies because what he does, telling stories, will never go out of fashion. Especially with a good narrator: it is a pleasure to listen to him, whatever he says. Keep talking, Loyle, we will listen for as long as you want.

TYCHO