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Valencia Underground II

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Valencia Underground II

"There’s something rumbling in the Valencian underground..." Last year I saw fit to write about the Valencian underground music scene. Or, at least, that's where it started. The truth is that Spain is in the midst of an alternative music boom, with gigs of both nationally famous and local bands taking place nearly every weekend, filling venues with loyal fanbases. Just this week basque rockers Berri Txarrak sold out in Barcelona and Valencia. Last month madrileños Toundra had a hugely successful run in Spain and are currently on the UK leg of a European tour. And not to mention the recent … [Read more...]

Épico es poco: No More Lies, Carmonas y Cigüeña en el Magazine

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no more lies in the shade of expectation

Qué maravilla es poder ir al Magazine y, por 8 euros, ver del tirón a Cigüeña, Carmonas y No More Lies. Qué gozada, joder. No More Lies han vuelto este año tras un silencio discográfico de casi una década con In the Shade of Expectation (bcore, 2014), un trallazo a la altura de sus predecesores, lo que no es moco de pavo. Y este debía ser el primer concierto propio de los de Sant Feliu de Guíxols en Valencia en una eternidad, aunque habían pasado por aquí en los últimos años abriendo para Lehnmotiv y en el recordado Festunizer. Servidor, que justo cuando se empezó a enganchar a No More Lies … [Read more...]

Valencia underground

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Valencia underground

There's something rumbling in the Valencian underground, and we're not talking about the shoddy metro system... We left the ingeniously-dubbed Festunizer day-of-mayhem last October with feelings that maybe we were on the cusp of something big, something new. There has been a recent boom in hardcore/math rock/punk bands hailing from Valencia and we are quite literally witnessing a shift; a new scene is being born. This could change everything... 00:30am 27/10/13: Magazine club, in the Juan Llorens neighbourhood of Valencia, has just witnessed a 12 hour indie-punk-hardcore mash-up gig … [Read more...]