Concert and festival previews and reviews.
Kylesa + Lazer/Wulf. Hard Club, Porto, June 22nd 2014
I have to start this review by stating that I only went to see Kylesa for old times’ sake, having heard absolutely nothing they’ve released after 2006’s excellent Time Will Fuse Its Worth, back then when I used to think The Mars Volta was the best band on Earth and spent too much time – that I will never ever ever ever get back – listening to Tool records.
Not noise per se, but an amazing combination of song and dance and trance and cosmic feeling. The Arkestra came to Portugal for a couple of gigs, the second of which #TeamBolachas had the chance to experience in a nice club near the Lisbon harbor, watching the river come and go and paying 2,5€ for a small bottle of water.
NOS Primavera Sound 2014 – printable timetables
Here are the world famous printable NOS Primavera Sound timetables in .xls format so you can use color-coding on the cells to check which concerts you want to see. See you in two weeks!
Ever wondered why we’re posting less and less stuff nowadays? Yes, we’ve been busing getting other things done. Like this all star lineup for a month of concerts at Mercado Negro, in Aveiro, Portugal. After a wonderful Old Jerusalem concert last week, tonight we host Matt Elliott yet again, this time with a new album. Next Wednesday we bring one of our favorite songwriters to Portugal for the first time ever: Will Stratton. Finally, on Friday 30, we welcome back Micah Blue Smaldone, who hasn’t played in Portugal in the last six years, and we’re also proud to present, for the first time in concert, his Fire on Fire and Cerebrus Shoal bandmate Tom Kovacevic, who has just released one of the most surprising albums of the year, Universe Thin as Skin, on Immune Recordings. More info and links in the Facebook event page.
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A couple of weeks ago, while at the official presentation of Optimus Primavera Sound 2014’s full lineup at the Porto city hall, I was surprised to see a lot of people cheering uncontrollably whenever a band they liked appeared on the big screen. Seriously, when “The National” appeared printed on the jacket of one of the characters on the (great) short video that announced the festival’s lineup, I thought FC Porto had scored or something. Shouts of similar magnitude could be heard when Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kendrick Lamar or Haim were announced, but a lot of names went unnoticed and are naturally confined to the last few lines of the lineup poster.