Ludwig Band's new album and the new series from the creators of Ted Lasso: what you can't miss this week

The week that begins, with Jordi Garrigós

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

I will listen to the first album by La Rauxa, the ye-ye pop project by Laura del Pino, one of the founders of Les Testarudes, with members from Trau.From the beginningit is an excellent debut, full of luminous songs and infectious choruses. Nostalgia? All of it, but when a project is made with such good taste and respect for old music, one can only get up, dance, and applaud. It will be one of the great Catalan albums of this year.

I will read Niall Breen's second comic published by Apa Apa, Solitary Plumber. Clearly inspired by a certain video game protagonist, the Irish author returns to touch on universal themes with simplicity, avoiding shouts and drama. Always accompanied by humor and tenderness, in this new work Breen – who has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media – focuses on loneliness and melancholy.

I will start watching Rooster, the new series from the creators of Ted Lasso for HBO. I was not a fan of their previous successful title – the whole thing about the Yankee coach and curses in England was unbearable – but if Steve Carell is added as the protagonist, it's a must to give it a chance. Critics have defined it as a comfort comedy, which is exactly what I need.

The week that ends, with Thaïs Gutiérrez Vinyets

Notes on what we have seen, heard, tasted and, in short, experienced in the last seven days

I have started reading Spider Point, the book by Nerea Pallares that won the García Barros 2025 award, originally written in Galician and published in Catalan by Periscopi. The starting point of the story is the arrival of a young woman in the town of Camariñas, on the Costa da Morte, to work at the lace museum and act as a tourist guide. But the young woman does not find an idyllic place, but rather a town deeply disturbed by the death of a teenager.

I have dined at the Leccabaffi restaurant, in Barcelona's Eixample, an ideal place if you like Italian cuisine at a good price. In this spacious venue on Valencia street you will find pasta, pizza and other traditional dishes from the Alpine country such as parmiggiana, caponata or vitello tonnato. They also have a good cocktail menu if you want to give your meal a more festive touch.

I have celebrated that the Circ Cric Festival returns this spring to Montseny for its 16th edition. It is a unique space where both adults and children can enjoy circus and nature, with a proposal that lasts for months with shows, festivals and activities for all tastes.

I couldn't stop thinking about the songs from the new Ludwig Band albumPor el barrio se comenta, their fourth in six years. On this occasion, the people from Barcelona have made an album where the already known influences of Bob Dylan or Manel resonate, but also more surprising ones like Andrés Calamaro, as they themselves explained in an interview in ARA. Songs like ¿Dónde te has metido esta noche?, Ha llovido desde entonces, or Qué bonito with their poetic and everyday lyrics are an ideal soundtrack for this spring that is almost beginning.

More proposals for plans and activities:

• What can you do this weekend
• Plans to do with children
• Series premiering this month
• Video games releasing this month
• What you can do in the Girona regions
• New restaurants to discover
• The human towers schedule