Cultura

Around 7:50 PM, as expected, it started raining over Parc del Fòrum, where the Primavera Sound festival is being held. The rain was very heavy, mixed with wind, during the performance of groups like the American band Geese. The wind caused water to reach inside the stage; the Americans were literally soaked. And just five minutes before Geese finished their concert, it was suspended, as were all the festival’s performances. An announcement was made over the PA system to everyone about the suspension of performances until further notice. Among the concerts that have been definitively suspended are those of Alex G and Mac DeMarco.

Around 7:50 PM, as expected, it started raining over Parc del Fòrum, where the Primavera Sound festival is being held. The rain was very heavy, mixed with wind, during the performance of groups like the American band Geese. The wind caused water to reach inside the stage; the Americans were literally soaked. And just five minutes before Geese finished their concert, it was suspended, as were all the others at the festival. An announcement was made over the PA system to everyone about the suspension of performances until further notice.

Primavera Sound is closer to reaching the glory of streaming its concerts and positioning itself at Coachella’s level in terms of live viewings. For the first time, the three days of performances at the Fòrum –from June 4 to 6– which can be followed worldwide will include all the headliners of this edition, with two exceptions: Massive Attack and My Bloody Valentine who, for reasons that have not been revealed, have decided not to participate. The broadcast can be followed for the first time on ‘La Vanguardia’s website, in addition to Twitch and Amazon Prime.

After Los domingos, comes La luz, which will light up cinemas next Friday. If the first film, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, showed from different points of view the reasons that can push a modern-day teenager to shut herself away in a cloistered monastery, the no less extraordinary film by Fernando Franco, director of great films such as La herida or La consagración de la primavera, tells us about a priest, masterfully played by Alberto San Juan, trapped by his past as a sexual abuser.

Rosalía has been forced to postpone the start of the US leg of her LUX Tour after canceling upcoming dates in Miami and Orlando, on June 4, 6, and 8, due to a “family emergency,” Live Nation announced in a statement without providing further details, though explaining that it hopes to reschedule them later.

The Gabo Foundation announced today that it has awarded Colombian journalist, Catalina Gómez Ángel, the Gabo Award for Excellence 2026. A journalist based in Tehran, the organization highlights “her courage, independence, and narrative rigor” in covering some of the most complex conflicts in the contemporary world “from a Latin American perspective that places victims and human experience at the center of the story.”

María del Carmen Machi Arroyo (Madrid, January 7, 1963), artistically known as Carmen Machi, was awarded this Thursday with the National Cinematography Award 2026. The award, granted by the Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros.

Everything comes from Benito’s mind. It’s a unique case that we might never see again. He calls me and I say he’s crazy, how is he going to do this. But the impossible is what we want to do,” says Puerto Rican music promoter Alejandro Pabón to a captivated audience at the CCCB Auditorium. Pabón, with his ‘r’s turned into sonorous ‘l’s, explains how Bad Bunny’s 30 residency concerts in Puerto Rico were born, which the team, he confesses, “we code-named the Super Bowl, without knowing he would sing in it later.” Thirty performances that have shaken up industry models but especially his country, where, he lists, they have even brought dominoes back into fashion and made the government understand that music can be one of its great export products. Now they are creating open studios for young people.

Only a few days remain until Pope Leo XIV’s historic visit to Barcelona, and the preparations are already palpable in the air. The signage for the Popemobile’s route, the placement of flags on balconies, and the anticipation of a public eager to sing the visit’s anthem, Alza la mirada. Even the pontiff himself, it is said, has already mastered his blessing in Catalan.

A black and white drawing went viral on social media at the end of 2025, due to recent protests in Iran over the country’s growing economic crisis. It was a girl dancing as if there were no tomorrow while dreaming of the end of the dictatorship. Today this drawing has returned to the profiles of many users but for a different reason: the death of its author, Marjane Satrapi, at the age of 56.