Check this out: Caetano Veloso, Boogarins, Single Parents, Rodrigo Amarante, Móveis Coloniais de Acaju and Black Drawing Chalks are all part of the 2014 edition of this delicious Barcelona festival.
Coisa de louco.
I suppose this would be classified as a Brazilian invasion and that’s an awesome thing. I think that if we want to use a giant net to categorize all of them it’d be something like indie MPB, but that wouldn’t be fair to all of them. Especially legendary MPB artist Caetano Veloso, but if it makes your life easier, there you go. Check the full line up down here:
WEDNESDAY 5/28:
Sky Ferreira, Stromae, Holy Ghost!, Temples, Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado, Fira Fem
THURSDAY 5/29:
Arcade Fire, Queens Of The Stone Age, Neutral Milk Hotel, Disclosure, St. Vincent, Metronomy, Chvrches, Shellac, Midlake, Warpaint, Sun Ra Arkestra, Moderat, Jamie xx, Real Estate, the Ex, Charles Bradley, Standstill, Pond, Antibalas, Julian Cope, Grupo De Expertos Solynieve, Touché Amoré, Bo Ningen, a Winged Victory For The Sullen, Colin Stetson, Caveman, El Petit De Cal Eril, Rodrigo Amarante, Julio Bashmore, the Range, Andy Stott, Majical Cloudz, Svper, Lasers, Chrome, Glasser, John Wizards, Föllakzoid, Fort Romeau, Wind Atlas, El Último Vecino, Gang Of Youths, Lunice, Single Parents, Kosmos, Shelby Grey, Móveis Coloniais de Acaju, William Dafoe, LNripley.
FRIDAY 5/30:
The National, Pixies, Slowdive, Darkside, Dr. John And The Night Trippers, HAIM, John Grant, Slint, SBTRKT, !!!, Laurent Garnier, Loop, Body/Head, Drive-By Truckers, Jagwar Ma, the Julie Ruin, Jenny Lewis, the War On Drugs, Deafheaven, Kvelertak, Sharon Van Etten, Mick Harvey performs Serge Gainsbourg, Factory Floor, Linda Perhacs, Lee Ranaldo And The Dust, Jesu, Wolf Eyes, León Benavente, Julia Holter, Pional, Refree, the Growlers, Speedy Ortiz, the Haxan Cloak, the Twilight Sad, Joana Serrat, Oso Leone, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, the Last 3 Lines, Prurient, Mas Ysa, Astro, Demdike Stare, Vatican Shadow, Dominick Fernow, Angel Molina, DJ Zero, DJ Fra, Black Drawing Checks, C+C=Maxigross.
SATURDAY 5/31:
Nine Inch Nails, Kendrick Lamar, Volcano Choir, Caetano Veloso, Mogwai, Television performing Marquee Moon, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Foals, Cut Copy, Superchunk, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Kronos Quartet, Blood Orange, Spoon, Black Lips, Jonathan Wilson, Chromeo, Ty Segall, the Mark Eitzel Ordeal, Islands, the Dismemberment Plan, Mishima, Earl Sweatshirt, Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld, Daniel Avery, Sílvia Pérez Cruz & Raül Fernández, DJ Coco, Zai, Courtney Barnett, Connan Mockasin, Boogarins, Cloud Nothings, Dum Dum Girls, Hospitality, Cold Cave, La Sera, Belako, Hebronix, Helen Love, Jupiter Lion, Genius Of Time, Univers, Mistakes Are Ok b2b Mattis With, Junkfood, Marc Piñol, Dani Baughman.
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