All bets are off: 2025 will close the musical year with a review of concerts that are the best of the best. And what is the best? The return to the stage of Patrick Wolf, Triángulo de Amor Bizarro (what will the band from Boiro surprise us with?), Alcalá Norte (from the little apartment on Elfo Street to filling La Riviera for two days with the sold out sign and announcing a third date), the solidarity concert Por Palestina (with Carolina Durante, Amaral, Depresión Sonora and more)… and David Bisbal, who will prepare a Christmas carol show at Movistar Arena.
Carminho (December 2)
A saudade, love, the pain of the soul… Carminho has taken up the fado of her homeland, has made it evolve and has managed, with a vocal technique that makes your hair stand on end, to see the folklore of her native Portugal reborn with a sensitivity that has hooked Rosalía herself (with whom she signs the song Memória from her latest album, LUX). In Madrid, she will present her latest album, Eu vou morrer de amor ou resistir, a letter to those women who take the reins, who decide on their destiny.
Tickets: from 44€.
Where to go? Capitol Cinema and Theater, at Gran Vía, 41 (downtown)
Patrick Wolf (December 3)
Sometimes, he is a wolf; other times, he appears as if in the middle of a dreamlike scene, almost becoming a fairy. And now, for the promotion of his new album, he surrounds himself with spikes and grabs a scythe. But dressed in orange, in warm colors, bringing us closer to the light. Patrick Wolf has rested for a few years from the music scene after having given us works like Lycanthropy or The Magic Position, which are universes with a life of their own. He returns with Crying the Neck, and with a concert that has changed venue in order to present his show as he imagines it: his first concert in Madrid after almost a decade of absence will finally be at the Copernico.
Tickets: 27,50 €.
Where: Sala Copérnico, at Calle Fernández de los Ríos, 67 (Chamberí).
Marcin Masecki (December 4)
Trained in the world of jazz, Marcin Masecki never stopped exploring genres such as pop or classical music. Although if he learned anything from jazz, it was exploration and experimentation. It is noticeable in this own language that the pianist and composer performs and that will see the light at Café Berlin this December.
Tickets: from 20€.
Where? Café Berlín, Costanilla de los Ángeles, 20 (Sol)
Gera MX (December 4th)
In September, Madrid welcomes Nanpa Básico; in December, Gera MX. Both are part of a new generation of Latin American hip-hop and both will perform in the city to put the pica and leave evidence of the quarry of the rhapsody that comes from the other side of the Atlantic. Gera MX, that is, Gerardo Daniel Torres Montante, comes from Monterrey and is known for his raw verses and that classic rap that does not disdain the contemporary and more street.
Tickets: from 25€.
Where: Sala Wagon, on the attic floor of Chamartín station (Chamartín).
Maruja (December 5)
It is difficult to define the sound of Maruja and, therefore, their live shows become a revealing experience in which everything comes together: hardcore, jazz, art rock… From Manchester to Madrid, the band is in the middle of a tour presenting their debut album, Pain to Power.
Tickets: from21€.
Where: Sala Copérnico, at 67 Fernández de los Ríos St. (Chamberí).
Ocie Elliott (December 6)
Jon Middleton and Sierra Lundy are the essence of Ocie Elliott, the Canadian duo who know a lot, very much, about touching the skin with whispering voices, soft harmonies, the deepest folk, the most introspective lyrics? Perhaps you are familiar with some of their songs, which have been featured in Grey’s Anatomy and This Is Us.
Tickets: from 25€.
Where: Sala Copérnico, at Calle Fernández de los Ríos, 67 (Chamberí).
Esteman + Daniela Spalla (December 6)
Another couple, another duo, who on the same day will fill Madrid with melodies à deux. Both artists come together in an album called Amorío, a conceptual project in the artistic but concrete in the thematic: full of stories of heartbreak, farewells, adventures…. They say that their influences range from Pimpernel to Barbra Streisand. What else can we contribute to this tremendous analogy?
Tickets: from 22€.
Where: Sala Mon, 36 Hilarión Eslava Street (Chamberí).
Water from Your Eyes (December 6th)
If Ocie Elliott are calm, Water from Your Eyes are experimentation, madness, trial and error. We love Primavera Tours’ definition of this band: “they are art-pop cryptograms”.
Tickets:18€
Where: Sala El Sol, Jardines Street, 3 (Downtown)
Raphael (December 7 and 8)
To the king what is the king’s. Raphael is an icon, a symbol, a metaphor for so many things. We are still lucky to see him on stage and he will do it with two back-to-back dates in a Movistar Arena that will vibrate with Yo soy aquel, Digan lo que digan and Como yo te amo. Let’s leave the karaoke and go see him live.
Tickets: starting at 60€.
Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood).
The Raveonettes (December 7)
They say that all these comebacks of bands from the 2000s are due to two possible things: to prepare for retirement; to take advantage of that nostalgia that gives us to return to safe spaces and happiness, as the live performances of these bands when Madrid was a city that lived in rooms full of reverb and dirty guitars. As Proyectario says : “ In music, as in everything, the boredom of perfection is opening the door to the broken, the dirty and the urgent”.
Tickets:from 30€.
Where: Sala Mon, 36 Hilarión Eslava Street (Chamberí).
Rojuu (December 8th)
Can you pronounce the name of Rojuu’s new mixtape? It’s called iNUiNUiNU and it will be played on December 8th at La Riviera.
Tickets: from 22,50€.
Where? La Riviera, at Paseo Bajo de la Virgen del Puerto, 3A (Arganzuela)
sélpide (December 10)
On December 10, the Andalusian artist sélpide will present live her debut album MoMA (Museum of Misplaced Art) at Sala Siroco. Recorded in South Korea during her training in the K-pop industry, the album is a journey through thirteen pieces that move between alternative pop, electronica and indie, and that turn vulnerability into a form of strength.
Conceived as an imaginary museum in which each song occupies the room of an exhibition, MoMA proposes an emotional journey that goes from the intimate to the performative. Before the concert, there will be a brief introduction at Siroco ArtLab (9:00 pm) and, at 9:30 pm, the “guided tour” through this sound museum will begin.
Tickets: from 12 € at Notikumi
Where: Sala Siroco, calle San Dimas, 3 (Malasaña)
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro (December 11)
Wherever the band from Boiro goes, we will go. Without looking back and confident in what will happen. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro gave a triple concert a few months ago in Madrid to celebrate two decades of career. The setlist was decided by the arcana. It was so special, but so special, that we only thought of returning to any of those three days. Luckily, they will be back: they will do it to present their next album, which we don’t know anything about but, as we said at the beginning, we don’t care. Whatever they do, we will be there.
Tickets: from 22€Where: Sala BUT, in Barceló street, 11 (Malasaña)
Mëstiza (December 12)
The duo of DJs who find their sound between folk and electronic music, will be playing at Las Ventas on the occasion of the Warm Up Party of the F1® GP that is to say, the party that anticipates (with live music and festival atmosphere) the arrival of Formula 1® at the new MADRING circuit.
Tickets: from 39€.
Where:Calle de Alcalá, 237 (Ventas)
Charif Megarbane & Rogér Fakhr (December 12)
Lebanese musicians Charif Megarbane and Rogér Fakhr, representatives of two different generations and reunited under the prestigious German label Habibi Funk, will bring the enveloping sounds of Beirut to the Sala Clamores.
Tickets: from 19,80€.
Where: Sala Clamores, Calle de Alburquerque, 14 (Chamberí).
Nitzer Ebb (December 13)
Nitzer Ebb are, along with Bauhaus, Kraftwerk or Neu!, one of those groups that made the industrial genre just that: a genre. Framed within EBM (Electronic Body Music), the band was born at the dawn of the 80s, never broke up, although they did take the odd break. Now they are back, in the midst of the post punk boom and with a view to the return of industrial music, they are returning to the stage with two dates in Spain.
Tickets: from 34€.
Where: Sala Mon, at 36 Hilarión Eslava St. (Chamberí).
La Paloma (December 13)
La Paloma are everywhere. Lately, we hear them live at festivals, at neighborhood parties but also in podcasts to which they are invited to tell how they deal with this fame. Can we then cross them out as an “emerging band“? We will see in their first Riviera.
Tickets: from 20€.
Where are they playing? La Riviera, at Paseo Bajo de la Virgen del Puerto, 3A (Arganzuela)
Ricky Martin (December 13)
In the context of the STARLITE Madrid festival, Ricky Martin lands in Madrid this December to review the greatest hits of his career: a show in which he will perform, accompanied by a live band and his corps de ballet, the hits that made him sell more than 60 million copies worldwide.
Tickets: from 40€Where: IFEMA, at Avenida del Partenón (Barajas)
Leisure (December 14)
They come from New Zealand with a song whose title sums up the spirit of the band: Welcome to the Mood. What mood? The one of the soul-funk and the carefree, wild, relaxed melodies.
Tickets:from 22,50€.
Where: Sala Mon, 36 Hilarión Eslava Street (Chamberí).
For Palestine (December 14) a concert with Carolina Durante, Amaral, Depresión Sonora…
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For and for Palestine with a price starting at 5€ and all the proceeds going to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East): the concert Por Palestina will be held at La Riviera on December 14 with a line-up featuring Amaral, Barry B, Cariño, Carolina Durante, Depresión Sonora and Los Punsetes.
Tickets: 5€.
Where? La Riviera, at Paseo Bajo de la Virgen del Puerto, 3A (Arganzuela)
Mónica Naranjo (December 15)
The diva is back. She does it with a “greatest hits” tour in which she reviews her career, pays tribute to her audience by giving them what they want: the best of Mónica Naranjo by Mónica Naranjo. Not to be missed.
Tickets: starting at 60€.
Where: Movistar Arena, at 90, Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood)
Nil Moliner (December 17th)
Nil Moliner is saying goodbye: he closes a tour, an artistic cycle, and he will do it in Movistar Arena also saying goodbye to the year. In the show on December 17 there will be surprises, but what we already know is that he will review his discography in addition to presenting some songs from his latest album Lugar Paraíso.
Tickets: starting at 36€.
Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood).
Lagartija Nick (December 19)
Lagartija Nick are part of that wave of big names born in Granada in the early 90s. Between experimental rock, post-punk or flamenco (the album Omega, with the legendary voice of singer Enrique Morente, is a must), the avant-garde being the band’s hallmark.
Tickets: Tickets from 24 euros
Where? La Sala de Movistar Arena, access through door 36 (Salamanca neighborhood).
Alcalá Norte (December 20, 21 and 22)
After selling out the tickets for December 20 and 21, Alcalá Norte warns: there will be a third date. Tickets for December 22nd will go on sale this Wednesday (forewarned is forearmed). A band that dedicates a song to “un pisito en la calle Elfo” as well as to “La sangre del pobre” or “La vida cañón”. From Ciudad Lineal and to the world, the band formed by Jaime Barbosa, “Juampi”, Álvaro Rivas (founders), Pablo Prieto, Laura de Diego and Carlos Elías, has given us back our faith: Madrid rock lives in them.
Tickets: from 25€
Where? La Riviera, at Paseo Bajo de la Virgen del Puerto, 3A (Arganzuela)
David Bisbal (December 22)
David Bisbal’s concert on December 22 is entitled: Todo es posible en Navidad (Everything is possible at Christmas). Yes, a live performance of pure Christmas carols. We know what you are thinking: we will also go for El burrito sabanero.
Tickets: Tickets from 53€Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya St. (Salamanca neighborhood)
Ana Belén (December 23)
The day after David Bisbal’s carols, on the same stage will play Ana Belén, eternal artist who will put an end to her tour with this special concert in Madrid. In this concert, she will review the greatest hits of her repertoire and will also add novelties from her latest album, Vengo con los ojos nuevos. She will be accompanied by a new band directed by David San José.
Tickets: Tickets from 65 ¤Where: Movistar Arena, 90 Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood)