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Primavera Sound Barcelona Books The Cure, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, My Bloody Valentine, Wet Leg, Ethel Cain, Slowdive, Einstürzende Neubauten, Lambrini Girls, and More

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Promavera Sound Barcelona 2026 has booked The Cure, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, My Bloody Valentine, Wet Leg, Ethel Cain, Slowdive, Einstürzende Neubauten, Lambrini Girls,Mac DeMarco, Pinkpantheress, Skrillex, Peggy Gou, Lola Young, Father John Misty, Ethel Cain, Bad Gyal, Big Thief, Wet Leg, Little Simz, Slowdive, Kneecap, Alex G, Dijon and Blood Orange also head the list of 150 names revealed today. Tickets will be available from 29th September at 11:00 CEST through the Fan Sale, which is now open for registration on the Primavera Sound website. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Nord Electric – Loneliness For Sale

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Outer Battery Records are building quite the musical roster for themselves not just with Swervedriver’s brilliant recent EP The World’s Fair, which was reviewed recently for Ghost Cult, but also the inclusion of Heavy Blanket (with J Mascis), Petyr and finally Obits; best known for featuring the legendary, late, great Rick Froberg (Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes), RIP. Excitingly, there are also live albums from Dinosaur Jr, Om, and OFF! available from the label. Impressive, right? Continue reading →


EP REVIEW: Swervedriver – The World’s Fair  

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Swervedriver were formed in 1989 and lumped into the Shoegaze genre, alongside Lush, Chapterhouse, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and fellow Oxfordians Ride. The band’s catalogue is extensive and consists of six full-length albums and eight EP’s of which The World’s Fair is the latest; the latter following up from last year’s outtakes/ demos collection Doremi Faso Latido (aka CD3 of the band’s reissued-classic-99th-Dream). The band’s somewhat sizeable catalogue is impressive even taking into account the fact that they had disbanded for a period of eight years, 1999 – 2007 with frontman Adam Franklin going on to forge an equally productive solo career under his own name as well as part of the bands Toshack Highway, Magnetic Morning and the Sophia collective.  Continue reading →