Festivals beyond Rosala

Music. Rosala, just a budding star in 2018, this time being the ubiquitous reference of a festival season that, also seduced by reggaeton, kicks off this Thursday with premises from a box office not as overwhelming as the one from the previous year. Latin music finds a place on stage.

Unlike in 2018, when the live music industry recorded the best exercise in its history and events such as Mad Cool or Primavera Sound hung the “no tickets” poster months before its celebration, this time no major event in 2019 has been repeated by the moment the feat.

Be that as it may, from this Thursday the veteran Viña Rock de Villarobledo (Albacete) lights the music with the best of rock and national urban music: SFDK, Saratoga, Barón Rojo, Beret, Rozalén, La MODA, Berri Txarrak, Natos and Waor, Ajax and Prok, Soziedad Alkoholika, La Fuga, SKA-P, El Kanka, Los Chikos del Maíz …

Another festival that will help warm the season will be Warm Up Estrella de Levante, in Murcia, with a line-up from this Friday by The Jesus And Mary Chain, Noel Gallagher and High Flying Birds, as well as Vetusta Morla, Two Door Cinema Club and Amaia Romero, who will be a week later at the Mallorca Live Festival with Jamiroquai, The Vaccines and Fuel Fandango.

In Madrid, Tomavistas will recruit Spiritualized, Cigarettes After Sex, Beach House and Deerhunter on May 24 and 25, and the second edition of Paraíso will offer the British synth-pop band CHVRCHES, the French Charlotte Gainsbourg, on June 14 and 15. and Superorganism, a revelation from last year.

Primevera Sound Latino

Although if there is an appointment whose poster always arouses great expectation, it is the influential Primavera Sound in Barcelona. From May 30 to June 1, this edition has been fully delivered to the outbreak of the urban Latino, with J Balvin and Rosalía as great stars of a poster that will also feature James Blake, Primal Scream, Solange, Janelle Monáe, Tame Impala and Miley Cyrus.

National and international hard rock await their place in the Madrid franchise of the Download Festival, from June 28 to 30, with Scorpions, Slipknot and Tool at the forefront of 50 groups such as Papa Roach, Stone Temple Pilots, SUM 41 or the Spanish Toundra and Berri Txarrak.

The Weekend Beach Festival in Torre del Mar (Malaga) will feature from 3 to 6 July with a very eclectic bet, between the reggaeton of Ozuna and Becky G, the commercial hip hop of Black Eyed Peas, the rumba and the ska touches of La Sticker and Ska-P and the new rhythms of Fuel Fandango and Nathy Peluso.

Rosalía will be in other great national events, such as the largest daily attendance festival in the country, Mad Cool, which will also feature Bon Iver, The Cure, The Smashing Pumpkins, The National, Robyn, Lauryn Hill, Iggy from July 10 to 13 Pop, The Chemichal Brothers, Vampire Weekend, The 1975, Noel Gallagher and Vetusta Morla. That same weekend the Catalan of Badly He will go through Bilbao BBK Live with Liam Gallagher, Thom Yorke, The Strokes, Suede, Weezer and Idles; by the recovered Doctor Music Festival (on the Montmeló circuit), which will add the talents of Sopa de Cabra, Underworld or The Smashing Pumpking; and by O Son do Camiño, in Santiago de Compostela, with Die Antwoord, Bastille, Black Eyed Peas and David Guetta.

New Order at Low

After the fiasco of the San San Festival, canceled during Easter due to the rains, Benicàssim (Castellón) will fight for compensation in summer: from July 18 to 21 with the FIB (Kings of Leon, Lana del Rey, Fatboy Slim, Franz Ferdinand, The 1975 and Vetusta Morla) and from August 16 to 22 with the Rototom Sunsplash (with Ziggy Marley, Chronixx and Busy Signal).

In the third week of July the prestigious Sónar will set the standard for world electronics with Disclosure, Holly Herndon, Paul Kalkbrenner, Bad Gyal, Four Tet and Arca, in an edition also tempted by the Latin urban of Bad Bunny and the rappers A $ AP Rocky and Skepta. The Low Festival of Benidorm closes the month of July with Foals, Bastille, New Order, Mo, Ladytron, Cut Copy, Zahara and Carolina Durante.

At the start of August, the youngest and most massive event of all, the Arenal Sound of Burriana (Castellón), will try to maintain its throne with DJ Martin Garrix, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Vetusta Morla, Fangoria. C. Tangana and Beret.

Medusa’s record

Both in dates and in attendance, the electronic Medusa Sunbeach Festival will tread its heels, which from August 7 to 12 will try to attract 300,000 followers again with Afrojack, Sebastian Ingrosso, Lost Frequencies, Nicky Romero, Richie Hawtin and Juan Magán.

Those same days, another massive electronic bet, that of the Cuevas del Almanzora Dreambeach (Almería), will bring The Martínez Brothers, Knife Party and Aftershock, among others, while on the plateau the Sonorama of Aranda de Duero (Burgos) will water its poster with Crystal Fighters, Love of Lesbian and Miss Caffeina.

Among the cycles, it is worth highlighting the most populous, Starlite de Marbella, which during July and August will feature Sting, Eros Ramazzotti, Manuel Carrasco, Maluma, Juanes, The Beach Boys, Il Divo, David Bisbal and Luis Fonsi.

Madness, Ben Harper, Andrés Calamaro, Woody Allen and Loreena McKennitt will be some of the stars of the fourth edition of Noches del Botánico, between June 20 and July 31 in the capital.

In parallel, Juanes, Roger Hodgson, Gilberto Gil, Giorgio Moroder, Los Planetas and The Beach Boys will be some of the artists of the Jardines de Pedralbes Festival, which will also feature great stars such as Mariah Carey, Woody Allen and Kraftwerk.

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