We can’t talk about the April concerts in Madrid without mentioning Rosalía despite the fact that all 4 dates (March 30, April 1, 3 and 4) have been sold out for months. Nor can we do it without blowing a kiss to heaven on behalf of Er Migue and that tribute in the form of a concert by Los Deliqüentes (also hanging the “sold out” sign) for the 25th anniversary of El sentimiento garrapatero brought to us by the flowers.
But, luckily, there are still tickets for one of Bad Gyal’s dates and for so many other concerts ranging from the grindcore of Full of Hell, the reinvented flamenco of Queralt Lahoz or the melodies of Nacho Vegas. The live music agenda looks like this this spring:
Few things are as beautiful as the beginning of Total Euphoria. A whisper, almost a lullaby, then the guitars get faster and faster, more and more dense and built… and BAM, the drums. Maybe this song is a good example of what Caroline are all about: the sweetness, the constructed lyric, the melodies in crescendo, complex and choral. Primavera Tours say that Caroline are a secret that is being unveiled, leaving the London circuit to touch, at last, the world. You have to go and see them. Now is the time.
Is there such a thing as Australian country-folk? There is Steph Strings, so the answer is yes: she is voice and strings, also harmonics and soundscapes that take us to the wild nature of her country.
Laura Pausini (April 6)
She, eternal, diva. She’s gone, she’s gone… but she never left and she was always there: she’s in Madrid in the middle of her Yo Canto World Tour 2026, a tour that starts in her native Italy, continues to Spain and will continue to Latin America.
We believe that the philosopher Zygmunt Bauman would agree in applying the term “liquid” to this band. In Tame Impala ‘s music there are no certainties, what is that? There are unfathomable recesses of consciousness that awaken in lethargic melodies that are pure acid dancing in mind-bending pop songs. The band’s fifth album will be released live on April 7th in Madrid. Lucky us.
Marquitos was ODDLIQUOR and now he is Marquitos again. The Madrilenian mixes R&B, trap, pop and whatever else he can get his hands on, without a care in the world. In this new-old stage, represented in the single Mis ídolos están en mi casa, he brings back to the table the urban sounds that characterize him.
Bad Gyal (11, 12 and 14 April)
Run, there are still tickets for April 14! Alba is, as the Galicians would say, “chegar e encher”. It is touching the sky with perreo and dancehall: Bad Gyal puts all the meat on the grill without leaving aside the protest and denunciation. After her debut with La Joia, she will present her new album (which is still in the oven in full production) with three dates in the capital.
Grindcore is not for everyone. Less so for this band from Pennsylvania who conceive life as they conceive music: full throttle and always ripped. They will be accompanied by The Body, Jarhead Fertilizer and JAD (i.e. coffee for coffee drinkers).
The nothingness of the desert is a lie: it has its own melodies, infinite ecosystems, an incessant movement of sands that do not stop creating different landscapes second by second… and Tuaregs that compose the so-called desert blues. Tinariwen call their music as assuf, that is, longing or melancholy in tamasheq (the Berber language), a mix of psychedelic rock, sounds of the Sahara, blues and rock. One of the most interesting that will pass through Madrid this 2026.
HENS presents Una mudanza, the new album by this author who does not fit in rock, nor in pop. But we can put it in the little box of honesty and sincerity without leaving the alternative flavor that characterizes him.
Abraham Cupeiro (April 19)
Abraham Cupeiro is a musician and musicologist with a deeply restorative focus: to recover old instruments and bring them back to life by making them sound. In his new show, called Loira (in homage to his little dog), he explores the richness of the mestizo: nomadic, gypsy stories from Eastern Europe, but also from New York and, why not, Madrid. “Loira was abandoned, like many of the instruments I use. I am one of those who believe that in the gaze of an animal hides that which we humans lack so much to straighten our course. There is tenderness, fidelity, silence and truth. And that is why this album bears her name. Because it is, like her, a mixture, memory, tenderness and resistance”.
He is a born traveler. He loves to play in remote places with organic sonorities that intermingle with his creations. Jan Blomqvist goes from the Mojave desert or the lake of Lemuria to the Mon room to deploy his emotional house and rhythmic euphoria.
The Asturian singer-songwriter Nacho Vegas, has returned to the studios to create a ninth studio album that, this April, he presents in Madrid: Vidas Semipreciosas (Semiprecious Lives). Among these “semipreciosuras” that will be published in January in physical format, we find the single Alivio, a song in which he reflects on hedonism as consolation, the search for beauty and refuge in other paradises.
After leaving a strong impression this summer at the Azkena Rock Festival with an overwhelming and full of nerve live, Laurie Wright announces a state tour for April 2026, in which she will present for the first time in our venues her explosive proposal of punk, pub rock, rhythm & blues and soul with a marked mod heritage and echoes of britpop.
Boneflower (April 29)
Post-hardcore screamo, complex melodies, distorted guitars, demon-guided drums and a voice that screams, screams, cries and declamates. Boneflower have been working hard and strong on stages around the world for years and now they are living a sweet moment. They have accompanied bands like Touché Amoré and, finally, they fly alone and stronger than ever.
Queralt Lahoz returns to the stage with FAVOROSA TOUR, the presentation tour of her second album, 9:30PM, a work in which she consolidates a unique voice within the current scene. With a proposal that crosses flamenco, soul, hip hop and Latin rhythms, connecting tradition and present.