The song

Luis Eduardo Aute has spent his whole life pursuing The Song. Like a good poem, a good song can justify a whole life. When I heard Willy DeVille's 'Heaven stood still' I thought for the first time of a musician: “After something … Read More

 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

 (!) I don't know so many things about the mid-range sticker

The flood of questions begins in the record section of a department store. It all starts with seeing that sticker with the exclamation mark that has become an icon of low-cost culture. Who … 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

 What Calamaro is and has never been

If there is one thing that Calamaro manages to do with each album, it is to surprise me, to deliver a collection of songs that are unexpected in sound and concept. With “Calamaro On The Rock” he has done it again.

Certain artists deserve a pre-performance ritual… Read More

 Sergio Algora

Dear Sergio:

I read the news on POPES80.com and I was amazed. You know that we never met in person, but a bond united us forever, thanks to your literary and musical talent. You opened my eyes very well… Read More

 They will never see my eyes

He went everywhere. He was a wild horse, but quite worn down by time. His mere presence was enough to make one feel the joy of the mad, those who bring daily the initiative of a life that regained its sanity, without suffering… Read More

 Acts and provisions

Who can hate the executioner of tyranny? There are those who do. I don't think so, unless the executioner becomes a tyrant. Something similar happens to music and musicians.

Theorizing at the bar… Read More

 Unfinished business with the past

I've been listening to you for a while, although I've been listening to you less lately. I don't know, I guess things change: my way of understanding music (because of my job), your way of understanding music (because of your career), and my way of understanding you… 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