Surprisingly, Australian Kevin Parker turned Tame Impala into a headliner at many festivals. With expansive psychedelia and a talent for immersive melodies, he conquered prime-time slots and built a remarkable discography. To avoid getting stuck in the mire of comfort and repetition, Parker has been opening windows to other sounds, evident in the album Deadbeat (2025) which he is presenting on the tour that passed through Palau Sant Jordi yesterday, with tickets practically sold out. Incidentally, it was the first time he had given a concert in Barcelona outside of Primavera Sound, where he has performed five times. And as on previous visits to the city, he made a stop at the bar La Plata in the Gothic Quarter.

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.