2008 and 2009

We have been saying goodbye from this shore for eight years and at the end it seems that it is always the same, but it is always different. As we like music and songs, we attend the funeral every December with a backpack… Read More

 A year without Antonio Vega

There was an unknown Antonio Vega, who closes the circle of the complex world of his songs and helps us better understand their value. A part of the leader of Nacha Pop that did not transcend the limits of his home, which … Read More

 14 million

Javier Sardá, his troop and his nocturnal show, everything that was so much talked about years ago, was not exactly freedom of expression, but rather freedom of braying. It was an insufferable, vile, inhuman and all that program … Read More

 Uribarri and the Asshole

I had been spared from writing about Eurovision this year, but Nico Rey has vomited on his blog about television, on elmundo.es, an aggressive text dedicated to insulting José Luis Urribarri and congratulating Buenafuente. Or… Read More

 Mysterious recording in Manhattan

The photo says nothing, but it says everything. In the solitude of Edison Studios in New York, the Spanish artist, dressed in black, blends into the shadows. With those high ceilings and the designer scent… Read More

 Seven (and III)

There are only a few hours left until the start of the celebration of Popes80.com's seventh anniversary. As we have said a thousand times, these will be two very special nights.

On Wednesday, November 21, you have to be at La Botellita from … Read More

 855 words on justice and freedom

I've been here for a few years now. I don't know if it's many or few. There are those who have been here for many more years and still don't understand anything, and there are those who have been here for less and already know more than they should. So I've been here for a few years, … Read More

 Of three letters

There are groups that do not deserve the contempt and, sometimes, the oblivion that they are suffering from a good portion of the music industry. And perhaps one of them is No Se Lo Digas a Mamá. A couple of years ago, … Read More

 Quique Gonzalez, again

Years ago, on a random night in a city on this coast, the situation was very different. Then, with the beach and the inlet as witness, he explained to me that the music industry “grabs you, squeezes you and lets you go.” … Read More

 The little mirror

Some very old children's stories, which must still be in some lost corner of this house, say that we all carry a little mirror inside us, which projects an image outwards. An image of our face that is seen, above all, by others. They say, … Read More