A historic LP and a very timely documentary: what you cannot miss this week

The week ahead, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will finish reading Un disco para cada año de tu vida, Joan Pons' Substack. In record time, this musical scholar has reviewed a hundred essential pop albums from his sentimental education and has left behind an archive of reviews hitherto unpublished in Spanish. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, by David Bowie, has been the final choice, the album that changed everything and that draws the curtain on a project that, sooner or later, should mutate into a book.

I will listen to one of those LPs that change the course of history. 50 years have just passed since the release of the self-titled album by The Modern Lovers, the only record by a band that had broken up two years before this album saw the light. It is the discovery to the world of one of the most interesting musicians in universal music, Jonathan Richman, here produced by his great idol, John Cale, of The Velvet Underground.

I will return to one of the classics of our comic strips. Awarded Best New Author at the Barcelona International Comic Fair in 1990, Sangre de barrio, by Jaime Martín, is the compilation of the stories of Vicen, a precarious and marginalized young man in Hospitalet de Llobregat at the end of the eighties. A character from the legendary El Víbora, he returns in a luxury reissue published by Norma Editorial. One of the best possible chronicles of some especially hard times on the outskirts of Barcelona.

The week in review, with Thaïs Gutiérrez Vinyets

Notes on what we have seen, felt, tasted and, in short, lived in the last seven days

I celebrated the premiere of the documentary Don't look back in anger dedicated to the legendary group Oasis and the tour they did in 2025 after years apart –and angry–. Now that rumors of a new tour in 2027 have been confirmed, the release of this film in which one can see the inner workings of the relationship between the Gallagher brothers serves to whet the appetite for the concerts they will give in July in Barcelona.

I have bought tickets for the exhibition American Images, which will be on display until the month of January at the Fundación Mapfre. It is a journey through more than three decades of work by photographer Dana Lixenberg in the United States, where she portrayed the country's society and all its changes with a close and human gaze.

I have studied the La Mercè program calmly to be able to choose from the dozens of activities scheduled from September 23rd to 27th. This year there is live music on different stages throughout the city, street performances, popular culture, and activities for the little ones in the house, as well as new spaces such as Glòries square, Sarrià square, or Parc Güell, which are added to the festival circuit.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the –historic– double award that actor Matthew Rhys took home at this year's Emmy gala. The Welshman made history by becoming the first actor to win two awards in one year: best comedy actor for the fantastic The Widow's Bay and the award for best miniseries actor for The Beast Within Me.

More plan and activity proposals:

• What you can do this weekend
• Plans to do with children
• Series premiering this month
• Video games being released this month
• What you can do in the Girona regions
• New restaurants to discover
• The human tower agenda