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10 Spanish Bands That Deserve Your Besitos
Words by Jhoni Jackson
Maybe it’s the success of the Primavera Sound festival that’s given Spain's independent music scene a boost. After all, the revered annual...
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That Beautiful Day When Nalda Became Punk
Name: When Nalda Became Punk (Elena Sestelo and Roberto Cibeira)
Where They’re From: Vigo, Spain
When They Started: 2006 (as the solo project of Elena Sestelo)
Genre:...
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Color Outside the Lines with Art Department
Words and Interview by Laura Studarus.
As far as reasons to form a musical project go, Art Department has one of the best: it can kinda suck to work alone. Friends...
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Love ‘em or HATEM…Actually, Just Love ‘em
HATEM is awesome, and their throngs of fans agree. The Madrid indie-folk poetry-loving foursome recently won our Artist of the Week, probably because their understated,...
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Artist of the Week: Madrid Indie Poets, HATEM
HATEM, or "hello to all the world," took their name from a Walt Whitman poem. And just as poetically, they slaughtered the competition in this week's Artist of the Week....
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HATEM — “They Won’t Let Me Grow”
Hola A Todo El Mundo (HATEM), a Spanish indie rock band, evokes the days of childhood playtime in “They Won’t Let Me Grow,” a cut from Ultraviolet Catasphore. A mishmash...
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Yo Quiero Mas Kraut! 9 Barcelona Artists Making Space Age Electro
I know it seems random, but something is going on in Barcelona. Suddenly, all kinds of groups from the Gaudí city are coming across my desk with a Kraut-po...
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Blast Off with Barcelona’s Pegasvs!
Name: Pegasvs
Where they're from: Barcelona, Spain
When they started: 2010
Genre: Kraut-pop
Most Similar: Joy Division, Kraftwerk, The Raveonettes
Sounds...
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Meet HATEM, Folk-Pop Poetry Courtesy of Madrid
Name: HATEM
Where They’re From: Madrid, Spain
When They Started: 2006
Genre: folk pop, alternative
Most Similar: Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes
Sounds...
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Yes! El Guincho is Alive! Stream His Mixtape “Trances”
El Guincho is back. The percussive dream tropical electronic master from the Canary Islands has only made a handful of releases since his 2010 album Pop Negro, but this...
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Plástica Magazine Goes Print en Inglés
Plástica has long been one of the finest online sources for awesome music en Español, but bit changes are afoot. The London/Madrid-based site/digital publication...
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Extraperlo Makes Barcelona Dance
Name: Extraperlo
Where They’re From: Barcelona, Spain
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Indie Dance Pop en español
Most Similar: El Guincho, Alex Anwandter,...
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A Sit-Down with Stand Up Against Heart Crime
Stand Up Against Heart Crime won MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week, which is fortunate considering we had so many questions for the Barcelona new wavers. The band has a...
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Artist of the Week: Spain’s Stand Up Against Heart Crime
It's been a cutthroat competition this week, but in the end it was Barcelona's Stand Up Against Heart Crime, who fought tooth and nail for MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week...
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Weird 80s Dreamin’ with Spain’s Stand Up Against Heart Crime
Name: Stand Up Against Heart Crime
Where They're From: Barcelona, Spain
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Melancholy new wave
Most Similar: Porcelain Raft,...
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I Am Dive — “Mount Eerv”
Spanish musicians Esteban Ruiz Sánchez and José A. Péres Piñas of I Am Dive get sentimental in the song "Mount Eerv." And who knew that recording the music video for on...
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CHECKPOINT: Equatorial Guinea
When El Negro Bey raps, the letter “c” and “z” spill out of his mouth with that trademark lisp that warns you that you’re speaking Spanish with a Spaniard. Except Bey...
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La Mala Rodríguez: Still The Baddest
By now, she needs no introduction. La Mala Rodríguez has risen from the streets of Cadiz, Andalucía to become, arguably, the most important rapper in the Spanish...
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The Ibiza-Mallorca madness continues….
Jessie J is the next artist to hit the Ibiza and Mallorca Live stage, for the annual musical festival set in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. The massive club...
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Global Garage: 10 Bands Making Old Rock ‘N’ Roll Sound New
The United States might be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, but no sooner had the strange beast reared its head than it was everywhere else too. It caught on fast...