I have set myself a limit for talking about Beach House, an unequalled duo that have proved to be, with their four albums, a huge influencing force on other bands, with a genre that you could easily enough copy, but that with heroicism, they have maintained its flow with an unbridled psychedelia that, by...
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One of the most common mistakes that I make due to my lack of over-cautiousness, or too much confidence, is to criticise Bruce Springsteen in public. He, with his immense charisma, always seems to have fans in places where I would never have imagined they would exist, and I find myself apologising over-excessively out...
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Falsetto and echoes are things that give me goosebumps on my skin, and Hayden Thorpe with his band Wild Beasts, managed to convince the British pop audience utilising these things in their album Two Dancers in 2009, and also with the release in 2011 of Smother, criticized for a tranquility little expected after their...
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The goths that have been playing together for more than 30 years, are headlining this year’s San Miguel Primavera Sound 2012 -to continue the celebration of the 20 years since the launch of one of their greatest albums Wish-, where we expect as always, Robert will steal the show with his dark shadow and...
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Out of the Game is the latest release by Rufus Wainwright, a revered singer-songwriter and a reference point now when talking about pop of extreme perfection. I have never underestimated the thorough perfection that drives him so often to musical experimentation, or his repeated attempts at creating live opera performances.
An extremely sensitive and passionate...
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Claire Boucher (a.k.a. Grimes) is the kind of Canadian that I admire; adventurous, rebellious, mysterious and eager to travel the world on the basis of her clever ability to open doors by breaking into the music scene
At San Miguel Primavera Sound 2012 she is the gateway artist to a very select list of soloists...
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Alan Palomo is the man who gives a face to Neon Indian every time they go on stage to attack, with extreme acidity, the sadness of indie which is so often associated with those who like this genre. He is full of enviable, youthful energy and this year he is bringing that, along with...
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Marianne Faithfull first came to me -during a season of my life in which cinema was my means of escape- with one film called Irina Palm, and I had no idea why there were so many people in the cinema waiting to see her in particular, because it seemed to arouse so much curiosity...
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