Bart Davenport, Micah P. Hinson and Josh Rouse are only some of the unmissable SON Estrella Galicia concerts this May.
Bart Davenport
Date: Tuesday 29 April, 10pm
Where: Teatro del Arte, Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: Advance: €13 / On the door: €16
Date: Thursday 1 May, 9.30pm
Where: Sala Karma, Pontevedra. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €10 / Advance: €12/ On the door: €15
Date: Friday 2 May, 9pm
Where: Sala Porta Caeli, Valladolid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €10/ Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
Like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Bart Davenport has gone through many stages in his life. He has been a mod, bluesman, and soft rock singer. His latest album, Physical World, is the culmination of all these incarnations and more. With ‘60s shirts, ‘80s guitars, and a temporal voice of a real crooner, the record is a unique mix of Paisley Pop and blue-eyed Soul.
Sex Museum
Date: Friday 2 May, 10pm
Where: La Iguana, Vigo. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
Date: Saturday 3 de May, 10.30pm
Where: Sala Súper 8, Ferrol. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
The event has been repeated intermittently for almost 30 years, but it never ceases to be exactly that, an event. Sex Museum has been into the studio and is going to present its new album Big City Lies, an expression that needs no explanation.
Micah P. Hinson
Date: Tuesday 6 May, 10pm
Where: Subway The Pop, Elche. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €12 / Advance: €15 / On the door: €18
Date: Friday 9 May, 10pm
Where: Sala Karma, Pontevedra. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €10 / Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
Micah P. Hinson arrives in Spain to present his seventh LP
Micah P. Hinson & The Nothing, in which the singer from Mephis turns towards sounds he places on the front porch of a farm off the beaten track and ballads for times of conflict, with settings adapted to a hypothetical sequel of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”.
The Coup
Date: Thursday 8 May, 10pm
Where: Le Club, A Coruña. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €10 / Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
Date: Tuesday 13 May, 10pm
Where: Sala El Sol, Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €12 / Advance: €14/ On the door: €17
The Coup’s first visit to Spain is as part of SON Estrella Galicia. Formed in 1991 in Oakland, California, The Coup is a musical mix of funk, punk, hip-hop and soul. The band led by Boots Riley, is characterised by its danceable music and social commentary lyrics.
Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations vs Violent Femmes
Date: Friday 9 May, 8pm
Where: Sala Shoko, Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: Advance: €20/ On the door: €24
Josh Rouse and his band, The Long Vacations, will play all the songs from Violent Femmes’ homonymous 1983 debut album. Another treat for music lovers within the We Used To Party season that brings out one of the key albums to understand and enjoy ‘80s rock at its most pressing and rawest.
The Autumn Defense
Date: Monday 12 May, 9pm
Where: Teatro Lara, Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €14 / Advance: €15/ On the door: €18
The Autumn Defense began to grow at the end of the 90s. It started as a personal project of John Stirratt, Wilco’s bassist (and the only remaining founding member along with Jeff Tweedy), but time has consolidated the group in such a way that what started as a passing adventure, has become a parallel career for its creator.
Minor Alps
Date: Thursday 15 May, 10pm
Where: Sala El Sol, Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €12
For the last two decades, both Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws have had surprising musical careers, Caws with Nada Surf and Hatfield with Blake Babies, Some Girls and as a solo artist since 1992. Time has passed and here is this joint project, both coming together under the name of Minor Alps, and with a great record called Get There.
Vinila Von Bismark
Date: Saturday 17 May, 8.30pm
Where: Ochoymedio Club (Sala But), Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
Vinila Von Bismark will present her first solo album, A place with no name, in Madrid. The artist from Granada takes a giant leap in her musical career, a brave step towards a much more personal style which, without leaving her wilder and rock side behind, demonstrates other nuances, tempos, and for the first time her lyrics show the fragility of the person behind the character.
Él mató a un policía motorizado + Tachenko
Date: Thursday 22 May, 8pm
Where: Ochoymedio Club (Sala But), Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €12
Date: Friday 23 May, 9pm
Where: Sala Porta Caeli, Valladolid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: First 50 tickets: €10 / Advance: €12 / On the door: €15
The indie rock band from Ciudad de La Plata will present La Dinastía Scorpio, their new album made up of eleven songs that take on a new spectrum of sounds and offer a new imaginary, presenting a fresh, mysterious era and one of dark optimism.
Vacabou
Date: Tuesday 27 May, 10pm
Where: Teatro del Arte, Madrid. SON Estrella Galicia
Tickets: Advance: €9/ On the door: €12
Vacabou is a multifaceted pop duo from Mallorca, whose members are Joan Feliu and Pascale Saravelli. A bus journey from Las Vegas helps them to find the backbone, by chance, for their album The drums of twilight, where they subtly re-read and update the vast musical array from minimalist folk to baroque post-rock and electronic music.
