Music

The Haunted Youth
The Haunted Youth
What It Feels Like for a Boy

Heartbreak becomes a way to reject the manosphere’s emotional detachment and reclaim male vulnerability through louder, heavier music.

New: El Corte Inglés
New: El Corte Inglés
Más y mejor

La fiesta 'New' de El Corte Inglés transformó Madrid uniendo moda, música y talento joven. María Becerra, Begoña Vargas y Ralphie Choo protagonizaron esta noche única.

Michael Isaak
Michael Isaak
Between Two Worlds

A debut album turns diaspora, family memory and Egyptian heritage into Arabesque Folk shaped by the oud, maqams and stories carried across generations.

Sedef Adasï
Sedef Adasï
Unexpected Turns. Cuteness!

Before closing Lentekabinet’s Poppy stage, the artist talks belonging, intuition and why every dancefloor – big and small – should feel like family.

Sunnan
Sunnan
A Wake Up Call

Swedish collective Sunnan returns with I Need You, blending soul and cinematic rock. This introspective journey arrives just ahead of their European summer tour.

Olivia Rodrigo – you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Olivia Rodrigo – you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Longing, Loss, and the In-Between

An emotionally intricate album trading teenage explosions for quieter unravelling. Rodrigo documents a romance from euphoric beginnings to painful endings.

Vince Staples – Cry Baby
Vince Staples – Cry Baby
The American Superfugue

Somewhere between reflection and rallying cry, the artist’s new album captures the contradictory superfugue that is the ugly underbelly of American neoliberalism.

Requin Chagrin
Requin Chagrin
An Airy Liftoff

Dream pop drifts between Mediterranean light and melancholy through gulper sharks, self-recording, French icons and the instinctive pull of letting go.

MOON
MOON
From the Inside Out

After disappearing from streaming platforms, the Swedish artist returns with “DNA”, a new chapter built around stillness, fear and the courage to feel deeply.

Die Twice
Die Twice
Tension and Release

A hazy new video turns the band’s latest EP chapter into a strange, slow burning journey through memory, atmosphere and release.

AQUTIE
AQUTIE
Stories on the Dancefloor

From PELE PELE to her Barcelona debut, the New York artist builds dancefloor spaces rooted in culture, community and belonging.

Landroid
Landroid
A Cosmic Inheritance

A desert-rooted album follows love, memory and inherited patterns through creation myths, family histories and the pull of destiny.

UNTER STRØM
UNTER STRØM
Power in Restraint

Born mid-flight and sharpened through industrial textures, the track turns restraint into a source of tension and cinematic force.

Primavera Sound 2026
Primavera Sound 2026
A Weekend of Beautiful Chaos

A rain-soaked crescendo turned cancelled headliners, transcendent sets and pop catharsis into a festival weekend that refused to settle down.

Des Rocs
Des Rocs
Trial and Error

A record shaped by uncertainty, physical pain and instinct becomes a study in how slow, messy creative survival can still sound hungry.

Model Man
Model Man
Seen and Heard

The music feels lighter, but the questions remain. As “When You Smile” arrives, he talks balance, pressure and making peace with chaos.

Jesse Draxler
Jesse Draxler
System Reboot on Authorship

This is for the goths. A visual artist and musician conducts a pool of over twenty collaborators into a meditation on his own position as maker.

Kim Petras – Detour
Kim Petras – Detour
Authentically, Intentionally Disjointed

The singer’s latest album delivers the dirty dance music fans want, while also exposing a new vulnerability in a celebration of her newfound musical independence.

Zalando x Primavera Sound 2026
Zalando x Primavera Sound 2026
Un oasis en el Fòrum

Moda y música colisionaron en el Fòrum. Entre lluvia, conciertos y el refugio perfecto, los looks festivaleros sobrevivieron marcando tendencia.

Wesley Joseph
Wesley Joseph
Where Memory, Nostalgia and Music Meet

A debut album built around memory, loss and nostalgia becomes a living map of the artist’s inner world, where past, present and future keep colliding.

Eli
Eli
Infinite Pop Girl

The artist presents the deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed debut album, rounding off a year in which her music has greatly enriched our lives and the internet.

Fever House en Primavera Sound 2026
Fever House en Primavera Sound 2026
Para sentirse como en casa

Un refugio retrofuturista dentro del festival invita a desacelerar entre sesiones, arte inmersivo y gastronomía local.

Austel
Austel
Digging Through Memory

A reflective second album turns childhood memories, field recordings, and the search for home into ten intimate songs about what keeps echoing back.

Annabelle Tiffin
Annabelle Tiffin
In Between Places

A tender indie-pop ballad about youth, self-worth and the people whose belief helps confidence bloom when it feels most fragile.

Geese
Geese
Para siempre, por siempre

Una noche de rock libre, sudoroso y magnético confirma por qué la banda de Brooklyn se ha convertido en uno de los nombres esenciales del presente.

DJ Swisha
DJ Swisha
Beyond the Edits

With a background in audio engineering, it was only a matter of time before he got into music. We speak with DJ Swisha about his “ADHD” music taste, teaching upcoming talent, and Horst festival.

Fervents
Fervents
Nowhere to Run

Leaving home is supposed to change everything, but “Broken Home” asks what happens when the world waiting on the other side feels just as fractured.

Hyd
Hyd
The Taste of Sense

An album and exhibition turn absence into a sensory language where voices, textures and frequencies keep love in motion.

Music, Fashion, Film
Music, Fashion, Film
METAL’s Team Picks

Charli xcx gave us John Cale, Marc Jacobs and Martin Scorsese. We built our own “Music, Fashion, Film” dream lineup.

Carré
Carré
Bass, Instinct and Movement

Who would’ve thought that what started as a series of bass music warehouse parties in LA would bloom into such a successful project?