That time of innocence

Something binds us forever to the first loves of a summer. Something, always with a song. A bare chin, shorts, a light body and a heavy heart, filled with dreams yet to be fulfilled. Read More

Lauren Jordan and Blue Moon, back to 80s rockabilly

Lauren Jordan publishes An Ace Up Her Sleeve. Demos, Rarities and Other Gems, while Blue Moon compiles her 45-year intermittent career in Anthology since 1979. It is a return to the rockabilly of the 80s, with … Read More

The day Carlangas was reborn

It can hit your heart, tell you your own contradictions, and make your feet move. All at the same time. It's Carlangas, of course. I walk along the beach of a thousand shells without hearing the crunch of each step, because I've been in my … Read More

What have you done, Rafa?

He takes out each record as if sliding it under the table. As if it were another turn on the Ferris wheel, with no more novelty than the talent already recognized at this point in the festival. He has just done it with Young, without fuss, … Read More

The open secrets

I saw them yesterday. Nostalgia and sadness often coincide. My schemes were broken, then I understood… I understood the origin of many of his lyrics, I understood that they had ascended to the heavens of music and I walked 40 years back in … Read More

Oblivion and foam

Diego Vasallo no longer wants to make songs, he just wants to speak to the heart without intermediaries; nothing gets in the way here. The EP is a continuum, a river of photographs of imprecise time. Read More

And Celtas Cortos kissed the fire of the sea

Rosemary, fennel, xesta, lemon verbena, fern, and mallow. St. John's water, bonfires, embers, and sardines. Queimada, hugs, and Estrella Galicia. Sand, salt, sea, and the bay of a thousand stars, blessed by the flashes of the lighthouse, in the heat of … Read More

A song for two hands

The novel, Paper roses, It was finished and just sent to my editor. I had bled some pages for years and, after all, I suspected that the universe of that boy who stars in it was too small for the literary atmosphere. … Read More

Oscar

It was the other day at Garufa when I got the flash, the pinch of memory, enjoying a beautiful show, marked by the personality of a drummer with magic. And it was Oscar, Oscar… Read More

AI recommends this song by Mecano: “many Popes80 readers will identify with it”

Disclaimer: This recommendation and text has been provided by AI, via ChatGPT. Although some typos have been edited, it may contain other errors, and is the opinion of AI itself. Find out more … Read More