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The 20th anniversary of the Barcelona edition will take place from 26th to 30th August in the Parc del Fòrum

Primavera Sound Barcelona 2020 changes dates and will now take place in August

There are things that only happen once in a lifetime. The current global COVID-19 health crisis is, unfortunately, one of them. But it won’t be the only one. The spirit of solidarity and collective response of society in the face of this emergency will live on for a long time, and will allow us to embrace exceptional situations and overcome the challenge… and to literally embrace each other once it is over. Faced with this constantly changing scenario, the restrictions imposed by the authorities on the celebration of public shows and on the free movement of people (making the participation of the announced artists difficult and in many cases impossible) and in coordination with the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Barcelona City Council and the Sant Adrià de Besòs City Council, we are forced to postpone the upcoming edition of Primavera Sound Barcelona for reasons of force majeure known to us all. Our absolute priority has always been to guarantee the safety of our audience, artists and all the people involved in the festival.

  · 211 artists of 35 nationalities make up a lineup that looks backwards, forwards and every which way, that is panoramic, diverse and gender-balanced · The number of days in the Parc del Fòrum have increased to include Sunday 7th June, with a Brunch –On The Beach party headlined by a Disclosure DJ Set, Nina Kraviz, Amelie Lens and Black Coffee · Tickets for the festival on sale on Thursday, January 16th, from 10:00 on primaverasound.com and DICE WATCH LINEUP ANNOUNCE VIDEO

Primavera Sound Barcelona 2020: a triumphant lineup to celebrate 20 years of the #bestfestivalforever

Of course twenty years of music fit into one single lineup. And so much more than that. Today, Primavera Sound Barcelona 2020 presents the full...

Barcelona festival’s first ever U.S. event will take place September 19-20 at Los Angeles State Historic Park

PRIMAVERA SOUND LOS ANGELES 2020

LOS ANGELES, CA – Have you heard of Primavera Sound? Of course, it is a festival for true music lovers. With a lineup impossible to predict. If you’ve always wished to experience the live event in Barcelona or Porto for yourself, guess what? Primavera Sound is coming to Los Angeles, California in 2020.   Co-produced by Live Nation, the festival’s new globe-crossing adventure is scheduled for September 19th and 20th in 2020 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. What better place for the festival’s next stop than where it is always... primavera, i.e. spring?

The objectives were adopted by the countries of the UN to work in favour of gender equality, eradicating poverty, ensuring prosperity for all and protecting the planet

17 objectives for a better world and a better festival

The alliance encapsulates the acts of solidarity that the festival has been doing over the last few years, and will also include the new actions that will become an integral part of our social-responsibility programme In 2015, leaders from 193 countries at the United Nations agreed on a set of global goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 Goals that are for everyone, and that from today are officially adopted also by Primavera Sound. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a plan of action for governments, the private sector and civil society to work together so that each of its specific goals can be achieved in the coming years. The alliance with the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Action Campaign thus serves as a framework for the social actions that Primavera Sound has been carrying out for several years, as well as for new projects of climate action, sustainability and equality that join our commitment to our society. In the words of the people behind the campaign, “to make the 17 Sustainable Development Goals a reality all of us need to take action, and make the necessary changes to achieve them and to make sure that we are achieving them. Primavera Sound is a perfect platform to connect with young and creative audiences, who want to take action for the causes they care about, providing a meaningful experience for all attendees”.

Little Simz, AJ Tracey, Mucho Muchacho, Junglepussy and Kaydy Cain are some of the performers who will play on this stage in the Parc del Fòrum dedicated to the different genres of hip hop

Primavera Sound 2019 intensifies its commitment to hip hop with 13 new artists for the SEAT Village Stage

On the Primavera Sound site, stages just spring up. And the SEAT Village area, which last year hosted an area to chill with DJ sessions by the water, this year will host a brand new stage called the SEAT Village Stage that will join the main programme of the festival with 13 artists who move around in all the facets and variants of hip hop. Developed in collaboration with SEAT, this stage allows the audience to discover the present and future of the genre in a privileged setting.

Primavera Sound’s archipelago of beats in Sant Adrià de Besòs reveals its most exuberant line up of 64 shows spread across four stages

Primavera Bits: four pieces of electronic heaven

The brand new EL PUNTO by adidas Originals is a new stage curated by Yung Beef featuring the past, present and future of urban sounds… and a street football pitch as its dance floor It is said that some people don’t leave Primavera Bits during the whole Primavera Sound… and it is said because it is true. In the fourth year of its existence, the festival’s commitment to dance sounds in Sant Adrià de Besòs continues to expand in every possible way: both in size as it gains a new stage, EL PUNTO by adidas Originals, for which Yung Beef has chosen 17 artists who will defend the reason behind the boom of urban music; and in breadth because the programme of Primavera Bits continues to break down stylistic frontiers and will welcome, not only sessions and live concerts by electronic producers of all kinds but also trap shows, old school reggaeton, colourful pop, modern pop and even j-pop

  The meeting will analyse the responsibility of music towards its cultural roots The creators of Arde Madrid will explain the music selection for the acclaimed series Mental well-being therapies for musicians and the ever more popular idea of audio branding will be explored At Primavera Pro’s tenth anniversary party there will be lots to celebrate, but everything that affects and preoccupies people in the music industry will be debated in depth. The meeting will analyse what happens when, in a globalised scene, Western artists adopt sounds that have their roots in other cultures and in minorities that are not usually the focus of media attention. Is this a way to give enhanced visibility to a greater folkloric wealth? Or is it a process that adulterates tradition and only benefits those who are in privileged positions? Is it possible to appropriate culture? This debate, with its long tradition in the history of pop music, will be discussed at a roundtable moderated by the...

The identity of music - a debate at Primavera Pro 2019

Meanwhile, at Primavera Pro On-Screen, the section of the programme which is dedicated to the links between the world of music and that of audio...

  The meeting will analyse the responsibility of music towards its cultural roots The creators of Arde Madrid will explain the music selection for the acclaimed series Mental well-being therapies for musicians and the ever more popular idea of audio branding will be explored At Primavera Pro’s tenth anniversary party there will be lots to celebrate, but everything that affects and preoccupies people in the music industry will be debated in depth. The meeting will analyse what happens when, in a globalised scene, Western artists adopt sounds that have their roots in other cultures and in minorities that are not usually the focus of media attention. Is this a way to give enhanced visibility to a greater folkloric wealth? Or is it a process that adulterates tradition and only benefits those who are in privileged positions? Is it possible to appropriate culture? This debate, with its long tradition in the history of pop music, will be discussed at a roundtable moderated by the journalist Aïda Camprubí, at which musicians and cultural activists will participate: Fermin Muguruza, who throughout his career has worked with artist from all cultures, and has always had the deepest respect for the sources of these sounds; Noelia Cortés, one of the most outspoken defenders of the public visibility of Romani people; and the Uruguayan producer Lechuga Zafiro, who fuses electronic music with Latin American folklore, and who will also perform at Primavera Pro with F5, his project with the candombe troupe C1080.

Solange, Tame Impala, Cardi B, J Balvin, Erykah Badu, Future, Janelle Monáe, Nas and Rosalía are the headliners of a line up in which, for the first time, there are as many female as there are male artists

Equality, eclecticism and audacity in the revolutionary line up of Primavera Sound 2019

WATCH LINEUP VIDEO HERE The festival consolidates its reinvention by committing to urban music without forgetting any essential selections The full festival ticket price will remain at the current price of 180€ (plus distribution costs) until January 7th and day tickets are now on sale That in a line up, equality between female and male artists should be normal That gender barriers and pigeonholing being dismantled should be normal That all stages, schedules and proposals being provocative should be normal That the music of the new generations be embraced without forgetting how we got here should be normal Is the Primavera Sound 2019 line up normal? No, but we want it to be. The New Normal, or the new normality, is the idea on which the universe of the nineteenth edition of the Barcelona festival is based. From May 30th May to June 1st 2019, the Parc del Fòrum of Barcelona will be witness to an exceptional edition. A turning point. As explained from the “future” with the spectacular ad aired just a few minutes ago from the Radio Primavera Sound studios, this is the edition in which everything changes.

Primavera Sound’s official radio station launches today with an eclectic, international musical line up via three online channels

Is this thing on? Radio Primavera Sound is now broadcasting from its Barcelona studio

RPS Studios are located in Abaixadors10, a new space in Barcelona’s el Born district, which opens every day to the public, allowing them to enjoy live radio, gigs and events Radio is dead. Long live Radio Primavera Sound. That was how we presented Primavera Sound’s new radio project when it launched its test period in October. But - really? Were we serious?  Of course. And today the official radio station of the Primavera Sound festival, supported by automotive company SEAT, gives us a first indication of what is to come. That first look includes more than 100 programmes, already in production, which will gradually join the daily programming on Radio Primavera Sound’s two channels: RPS-1, in Spanish, and RPS-2, in English. The third channel, RPS-3 RANDOM, will be dedicated exclusively to music and, as its name suggests, all kinds of sonic experiments and acoustic pranks. All three channels will offer a window onto what exactly is going on inside the Primavera Sound universe and the way in which Primavera Sound understands music. And who knows? Maybe it might include a few hints as to who might be on the line up for the 2019 festival... You should probably stay tuned, just in case.

The lineup of this year’s festival of emerging stars visualizes the future of music with diversity of gender, origins and styles

New Music Dictionary, Primavera Club 2018 edition

Around 72 concerts in three days will transform Barcelona and Madrid into global laboratories for music Maybe you don’t know it yet, but you are about to discover your next favourite band. It’s that name that you will see everywhere next year, the one raved about by the press, counting their listens by the millions and, who knows, maybe even appearing at next year’s Primavera Sound. And to discover it, obviously, you’ll have to go to Primavera Club, which from 26th to 28th October will host the debuts in Barcelona and Madrid of a great selection of artists whose careers will take off in the next few months. A total of 46 artists will perform at Apolo, La (2) de Apolo and the Centre Cultural Albareda in Barcelona, and a selection of 26 names will play at the Teatro Barceló and at El Cielo de Barceló in Madrid. Once again, the festival will have the support of SEAT as its strategic partner, thus consolidating their backing of emerging talent and creativity. Just like opening a dictionary at a random page and discovering a new word, Primavera Club encourages curiosity, discovery and immersion. It invites you to imagine the future. These are some of the neologisms and new concepts that we are going to explore:

The Barcelona festival celebrates its 18th anniversary with an edition that broadens stylistic horizons and breaks down barriers of gender and age

Primavera Sound 2018: reasons to keep on believing

Primavera Pro throws itself into defending rights and into inspiring creation in the music industry Primavera Sound is Nick Cave walking on water right from the start of his performance. HAIM showing the world their sibling love. Nils Frahm and his pianos hypnotizing even the grass of the site. Spiritualized filling the Auditori del Fòrum with both real and metaphoric stars. Björk performing her floral ceremony. Los Planetas giving a surprise concert. A press conference that brings together The Three Tenors of Spanish trap (C. Tangana, Bad Gyal and Yung Beef) and another with Birkin (mother) with Gainsbourg (daughter). Amaia singing a song by Neutral Milk Hotel. The Mexican chef Eduardo ‘Lalo’ García offering his culinary repertoire for one day only. Floating Points DJing for six hours right on the beach. Jónsi from Sigur Rós in his sound explorer outfit. Tyler, The Creator inviting A$AP Rocky on to his stage. The National reassuring thousands of people. “Fight for your right to party. Party for your right to fight”. Primavera Sound is all the collaborators and friends of Jóhann Jóhannsson with lumps in our throats at the concert in homage to the late Icelandic composer. And Primavera Sound will be Lorde bringing her audience together in a massive collective embrace tonight, the Arctic Monkeys reappearance with their most fascinating album, Jane Birkin remembering Serge Gainsbourg, Beach House giving their only European festival concert this year, Skepta arriving for another (almost) unexpected concert, THE BLAZE turning up the electronic beats and A$AP Rocky setting the stage and anything that gets in his way on fire. It is ending up giving yourself up, body and soul, for yet another year, to the communal dance with DJ Coco under the universal motto: “Don’t stop believin’”. This is, and continues to be, Primavera Sound.   A “don’t stop believin” that is reflected in the balance of the eighteenth edition of the event. Once again this year, the festival beats its own records with over 60,000 people per day at the Parc del Fòrum, with Saturday, which completely sold out months ago, still to go and the closing day at the CCCB tomorrow which will push numbers up to over 210,000 people from 126 countries. The free concerts tomorrow, headed by Fermin Muguruza eta The Suicide of Western Culture, Rhye and the Australian Montero among others, will be the culmination of yet another unforgettable week of music.   With every year and every edition that passes, Primavera Sound is a little more complete. And 2018 has been the year of gastronomy –high-end and popular gastronomy– with Primmmavera. It has been the year of the consolidation of the electronic music site Primavera Bits with its third stage on the beach of Sant Adrià de Besòs, of the new stages The Warehouse and Radio Primavera Sound by SEAT and of the new outdoor location of the Heineken Hidden Stage. It has also been the year of gender equality on the two main stages and of the implementation in the festival of the No Callem protocol against sexual harassment created by the Barcelona Town Hall that will be in place until it is no longer necessary.   We are now on our way to Oporto for the seventh edition of NOS Primavera Sound, which from 7th to 9th June will take artists of the calibre of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lorde and A$AP Rocky among many others to the Portuguese city. Then on to Primavera Sound 2019, from May 30th May to 1st June. Much more and even better. We never tire of repeating it: Don’t stop believin’!   Primavera Pro 2018: Listening (to the) music   “What we want are heads of state that make cool playlists”. “Rights, like the freedom of speech, are a question of class”. Two sentences. The first, is apparently frivolous (or is it?), was uttered by Father John Misty. The other by Elgio, former member of La Insurgencia who was condemned to two years and one day of prison for verses that the High Court considered incitement to terrorism.   Both sentences have one thing in common: they were said in the framework of Primavera Pro 2018 and, in some way, they represent everything that normally would not be part of a professional meeting: entertaining wit, and the denunciation of deplorable situations. Primavera Pro is the place to hold a round table on how to tour in the Asia market, followed by a session to thrash out how Blockchain can help musicians. Where one can learn how to get a track on a successful playlist by Justin Barker from [PIAS], and later the opportunity to listen to the journalist Liz Pelly revealing the sexist stereotypes that are hidden behind an apparently inoffensive algorithm on a streaming platform. A place where you can discover the unusual chemistry between the well-known Father John Misty and filmmaker Adam Curtis, and to find out what the future has in store for the new generations of professionals in the music sector. Somewhere where you can listen to the producer John Congleton defending “timeless” music as opposed to a “perfect” sound, or where you can have a laugh listening to the vision that Los Planetas have today of their toxic glory, which is twenty years old already, Una semana en el motor de un autobús. A place where you can accompany Stuart Braithwaite on his journey through his favourite musical moments in cinema, and see how Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein have gone from cult band to pop phenomenon thanks to the soundtrack for Stranger Things. And it is a space in which you can express your outrage about a legal system that suffocates art and protest with Elgio, the lawyer Laia Serra, Dani Vilaró from Amnistía Internacional, and the journalist Bruno Sokolowicz.   And of course, it is a place to applaud the association of Mujeres de la Industria de la Música, which won the Primavera Award this year for their efforts to dynamite all gender inequality in the music sector. The feminist discourse was also very much present on the stages: 54% of the showcases from the five continents had women members and in many cases they were frontwomen or solo artists. This is one of the most significant figures of the ninth edition of Primavera Pro, that has brought together over 3.000 accredited professionals from almost 70 different countries.

Relive the shows by Belle & Sebastian, Wolf Parade, Yung Beef and Javiera Mena from the opening day

Primavera Sound all around the world: experience the festival at home

A new edition of Primavera Sound is here - the eighteenth already. And although the best way to experience the festival is to be there with the thousands of fans who get together in Barcelona during these days, it is also possible to experience Primavera Sound from the comfort of your own home, be it just a few meters away or from thousands of miles away. Here are some of the options:     RELIVE PRIMAVERA   The most complete coverage of Primavera Sound will be through the broadcast by the festival itself with the support of SEAT. Connect to relive.primaverasound.barcelona from today to experience the festival from another point of view, with several hours of daily programmes that will include whole concerts, interviews with artists, a selection of the best moments from each day and a window onto everything that goes on behind the scenes at an event of this calibre. Every day and headed by our old friend Johann Wald, comes the best way to relive your favourite concerts or to see the ones you missed. Starting today with Belle & Sebastian, Wolf Parade, Yung Beef and Javiera Mena from the opening day and following on the next days with artists such as Lorde and Warpaint plus many surprises. https://relive.primaverasound.barcelona APPLE MUSIC and BEATS 1   Beats 1, Apple Music’s streaming radio, will be at Primavera Sound for the first time headed by the London DJ, Matt Wilkinson with a special designated space next to the Primavera with Apple Music stage, that will be visited by the most outstanding artists of the lineup. This means that, you will be able to listen to the best of Primavera Sound in the over 110 countries where Apple Music is available. Listen live for free, or on demand with an Apple Music subscription.   PITCHFORK   The most influential musical web in the world will be back at Primavera Sound with its usual stage as well as a new space located in Casa Primavera which will be visited, during most of the afternoon, by guest artists from the lineup such as CHVRCHES, Thundercat, Scott Devendorf of The National, Slowdive, Waxahatchee and Oneohtrix Point Never doing DJ sessions or live interviews. This plateau with views of the sea will be the key location for the broadcast that will be available worldwide on Pitchfork’s website.   iCAT, NTS and RAI RADIO 2   For yet another year, radio stations from all over the world will also broadcast from Primavera Sound. These will include iCat, the Catalan public music radio station, that will celebrate its return to FM with a special programme from the Parc del Fòrum site that will include the broadcasting of some of its usual programmes live, concerts from the festival both live and retransmitted and extra contents about everything that is going on at the festival. You can follow it all on its website.   This year will be the first time that the British radio station NTS is at the festival. Given its experience in electronic sounds of all types, it will focus on Primavera Bits, the area dedicated to dance, from where it will give an in-depth coverage on their online platform and social media.   Finally, Rai Radio 2 will be the Italian media partner at this year’s edition of Primavera Sound, with a programme broadcast from the festival itself headed by Carolina di Domenico and Pier Ferrantini and their show Rock and Roll Circus. Follow the live stream on the Rai Radio 2 website.