Konstantinos Pappis

2 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

When Primavera Sound announced its 2025 lineup, the big news was that they’d managed to get Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan to headline. But it’s clear that the festival organizers understand convergent fanbases at every scale, which, on Saturday, June 7, meant booking bands like Cap’n Jazz and Los Campesinos! (embracing their emo status), Fontaines D.C. and Black Country, New Road (shaking off the post-punk label), or Chat Pile and Turnstile (transcending hardcore).

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Konstantinos Pappis

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2 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

Compared to the sweltering, brattily chaotic first day of Primavera Sound 2025, Day 2 went by like a breeze. The performances I saw were a bit more all over the place, with feeble little horse appearing on the same stage as Wolf Alice and Sabrina Carpenter succeeding Beach House – but unified by the idea of simply putting on a good show.

3 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

Ahead of her headlining performance at Primavera Sound today (June 6), Sabrina Carpenter has shared a new song, ‘Manchild’. Produced with Jack Antonoff and co-written with Antonoff and Amy Allen, the single arrives with a music video directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia. It includes lines like “Why so sexy if so dumb?/ And how survive the Earth so long?” Check it out below. Earlier this year, Carpenter released a deluxe version of her 2024 album, Short n’ Sweet.

3 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

Warmed up by Caribou’s celestial, pitch-perfect set on the opening day of Primavera Sound Barcelona, the first day of the festival proper was all about feeling the heat. Charli XCX, the first of the headlining Powerpuff Girls – whose statue is among the first things you see when you enter the Parc del Forum this year – would take the stage late into the night, preceded by Jamie xx, FKA twigs, and sweltering guitar-driven sets by the likes of julie and Momma.