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NOS Primavera Sound 2019

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It’s starting to be too common: no matter how warm and sunny it is in the week leading up to the festival, NOS Primavera Sound (NPS) is doomed to be ruined by at least one day of rain. The first day did not look promising after the announcement of the passage of depression Miguel (no, not the rnb star who performed there a couple of years ago) through the north of Portugal. Flights were cancelled, Ama Lou and Peggy Gou could not reach Porto in time to perform, strong winds and rain showers threatened to turn Parque da Cidade into a muddy mess, the gates were opened almost an hour later than it was scheduled.

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NOS Primavera Sound 2019: printable timetables, our preview and playlist

It doesn’t matter how conservative or liberal you are: people are naturally resistant to change, especially if the previous form of what’s changing was so dear to them. We get it: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Judging by the tone and content of most comments we can find online about this year’s Primavera lineup, both in Porto and Barcelona, folks ain’t happy about “the new normal”. Yes, some of the biggest pop artists in the planet have claimed most of the spots with the big font in it. Yes, there’s a shortage of loud, extreme music we often found at the long gone ATP stage, and every year there are less and less historical, cult indie rock bands reforming for a Primavera performance. But, other than that – tiny specks on a lineup of over 120 bands in Barcelona and over 60 in Porto – has it really changed that much? Is the Primavera DNA gone? (Was there really a “Primavera DNA” to begin with?)

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#141: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, “Years”

Bolachas Now Playing, 14/2018 (#141): 

Gulfer – Secret Stuff

The Cairo Gang – Real Enough To Believe

Superorganism – Something for your M.I.N.D.

Forth Wanderers – Ages Ago

illuminati hotties – Paying off the Happiness

Hop Along – Look of Love

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – The Bottle Never Lets Me Down

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Lesson

Marem Ladson – Shades of Blue

Soccer Mommy – Cool

Wye Oak – Join

Fenne Lily – Car Park

Jess Williamson – Mama Proud

Faustina Masigat – Stay with Me

Erin Rae – Can’t Cut Loose

Amen Dunes – Satudarah

Holy Motors – Valley

Altin Gün – Kırşehirin Gülleri

Sons of Kemet – My Queen is Harriet Tubman

Imarhan – Alwa

Dungen, Woods – Loop

Western Centuries – Warm Guns

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#140: Kacey Musgraves, “Golden Hour”

Bolachas Now Playing, 13/2018 (#140):

Andrew W.K. – I Don’t Know Anything

Let’s Eat Grandma – Falling Into Me

Hop Along – Prior Things

King Tuff – Thru the Cracks

Kacy & Clayton – Bend in the Water

Matt Costa – Sharon

Wilder Maker – Closer to God

Ray LaMontagne – Such a Simple Thing

RF Shannon – Black Madonna, So Divine

Stella Donnelly – Mean to Me

Alasdair Roberts, Amber Skuse and David McGuinness – The Fair Flower of Northumberland

Bernice – Glue

Wye Oak – Lifer

Kacey Musgraves – Oh, What a World

Kacey Musgraves – Love is a Wild Thing

Joan Shelley, Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Bridge

John Prine – God Only Knows

Renata Zeiger – Follow Me Down

Caitlin Canty – Cinder Blocks

Lindi Ortega – Forever Blue

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#135: Marlon Williams, “Make Way for Love”