Dolce Vita (Sony, 2024) is the new album by Amaral, the musical project that Eva Amaral (Zaragoza, 1972) and Juan Aguirre (San Sebastián, 1965) have shared since 1993. They attend the ARA in a room at the Barceló Sants Hotel in Barcelona San Jorge Club on June 13th, as part of the Guitar BCN programme. Among other things, they talk about anonymity, the family experience in the post-war period, groups like El Último de la Fila and Fugazi, infernal songs and the Nick Cave concert that changed their lives. "There was a disarray inside us that would never end if we didn't make music," Aguirre recalls.

This edition of Primavera Sound, starting this Thursday at the Parc del Fòrum and lasting until June 12, is meant to be a celebration of the return of pre-pandemic conditions, especially for the concerts held this weekend and on the 9th, 10th and 11th. Euphoria is the feeling the music industry is chasing and Primavera Sound is in a position to facilitate it: over 650 concerts spread over the 16 stages of the Fòrum and the 14 venues and halls across the city. Everything is set to break records because capacity is growing (up to 80,000 people a day) and because the new distribution of the two main stages, next to each other as in Santa Coloma de Gramenet's Rock Fest, instead of facing each other, increases capacity.