2026 is already here. And like every year, we always have to start it with music. From the essential New Year’s Eve galas on television, to the classics of Cachitos, to the essential New Year’s Eve concert (either from Vienna or from the Teatro Real). This is how January will start and will continue with a very varied soundtrack: the electronic folklore of Baiuca, the spoken word harcore of Viva Belgrado, the sensitivity of the Argentine Milo J or the end of a musical era for Sen Senra. These are the concerts of January 2026 in Madrid.
New Year’s Concert (January 1)
The Teatro Real celebrates the traditional New Year’s concert. This 2026 will be the Santa Cecilia Classical Orchestra in charge of interpreting the vases, polkas and marches of the Strauss family. A Viennese tradition that welcomes the new year from the heart of Madrid.
Tickets: from 45€
Where? Plaza de Isabel II (s/n)
Viva Belgrado (January 3)
The year begins with the spoken word of the Cordovan band Viva Belgrado. A concert (within the festival Inverfest) that tastes like a farewell, since it will be the end of the tour of the album Cancionero de los cielos. Viva Belgrado have done almost everything: starting in the underground and with DIY producers, they have toured 31 countries, they have given a concert in the Arctic Circle and now, with a new member (bassist Cristina Sanchez, who joined the band after the departure of Angel Mandueño), they return to Madrid to close this stage before getting back into the studio.
Tickets: from 18€Where to go? La Riviera, in Paseo Bajo de la Virgen del Puerto, 3A (Arganzuela)
Baiuca (January 9th and 10th)
Also within the Inverfest festival (that cycle of concerts that programs live shows during the coldest months of the year), Baiuca makes the first double bill of the year with two back-to-back dates at La Riviera. The band from Compostela promises what it gives: an unforgettable party. If you are galega ou galego in Madrid, we know you won’t miss it. If you are whatever you are in Madrid, you shouldn’t either.
Tickets: from 24,50€.
Where to go? La Riviera, at Paseo Bajo de la Virgen del Puerto (Arganzuela)
Valeria Castro (January 9)
Valeria Castro ‘s first album took her to tour a dozen countries in 82 concerts. With her second album, El cuerpo después de todo, whose tour will culminate in January at Movistar Arena, she continues to accumulate awards and laurels. The latest, the Ondas ‘Musical Phenomenon of the Year’, comes after a brief but intense break in her career for care, mental health, to stop: “The noise and external stimuli of the world make us think that we have to go forward however we can, and that’s fine, as long as we do not go over ourselves“.
Tickets: from 24,50€.
Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood).
Milo J (January 15)
“Life was shorter” is the tour with which Milo J is touring the world, bringing the sounds of his native Argentina with the so-called corridos tumbados, trap or ballads. He is not afraid of anything, crosses stylistic boundaries without regard and always ends on a note between nostalgia and impudence.
Tickets: from 62€Where: Movistar Arena, Goya street, 90 (Salamanca district).
La Plata (January 17)
What La Plata have done with Interzona is , precisely, to find the gap between punk, indie without forgetting the essence of 90’s grunge. But this time they move away from the pogo that haunted their previous two albums. Ah, there is BPMS. There are sneakers. There is a maturity that consolidates the sound of the Valencian band.
Tickets: from 18€.
Where: Sala Copérnico, at 67 Fernández de los Ríos Street (Chamberí).
SABA (January 17th)
Primavera Tours (promoter of the event) say that SABA is “Your new rapper of choice”. It is for those who respect and long for traditional hip hop. But don’t expect anything “old”: it’s refined, it’s melodic, it’s classic but not old-fashioned. SABA comes for the first time to Spain with the aim of leaving his Chicago style in our minds and hearts.
Tickets: from 24€.
Where: Sala MON, at 36 Hilarión Eslava St. (Moncloa)
Luz Casal (January 17)
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Un año de amor, Entre mis recuerdos, Piensa en mí, Un año de amor, Te dejé marchar… all TE-MA-ZOS. The Coruña-born singer is not from this world. Now, she presents her eighteenth album, Me voy a permitir. And she allows herself to be, to be, as she wants, as she deserves. Luz, you really are punk.
Tickets: from 62€Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood).
Fajardo y Pena Máxima (January 17)
As master of ceremonies, Ignatius Farray. And on stage, the powerful and unique voice of Fajardo always accompanied by his guitar; and the noisy, foggy and labyrinthine shoegaze paths of Pena Máxima.
Tickets: from 16€Where: Teatro del Barrio, 20 Zurita St. (Lavapiés)
Patrick Watson (January 18)
From Canada and with a velvety voice that has reached every corner of the planet after his song Je te laisserai des mots went viral. Seriously: I’m sure you’ve heard it, shared it and used it in some reel. But Watson is not a one-day flower: the one she will present in Madrid this January is her eighth studio album(uh, oh) for which she surrounded herself with colleagues such as Maro or Martha Wainwright. A rounded album, about the uncertainty of this century. A beauty that hurts.
Tickets: from 32€.
Where: Teatro Eslava, at calle del Arenal, 11 (Sol)
Maria Iskariot (January 20)
There are four of them, they come from Belgium, they are all pink and laughter on the outside but on stage they turn into a wild beast, pure punk rock of the filthy, the insolent, the incendiary. We go, of the only and true punk rock.
Tickets: from 18€.
Where: Sala El Sol, Jardines Street, 3 (Downtown)
Eladio y los Seres Queridos (January 22)
For whatever reason, Inverfest is a concert series that takes Galician talent into account. So, in January, another iconic band (this time from Vigo) will be in Madrid in the context of this festival: Eladio y los Seres Queridos will present their latest album, B.S.O 2005-2025, which is everything its name promises: a tribute to twenty years of history on stage, a compilation of their career that they paint and complete with collaborations such as Eva Amaral, Pucho (Vetusta Morla) or Fillas de Cassandra.
Tickets: from 18€.
Where: Sala El Sol, Jardines street, 3 (Downtown)
Militarie Gun (January 23)
The trail of hardcore is endless. This genre has been so many times on the verge of falling into oblivion… to rise again stronger than ever. What hardcore has is a faithful base, defenders of the scream, of the heavy rhythms, of the powerful guitars, of the incessant and suicidal drums. We love it. Militarie Gun is part of these new groups of the genre that border on non-genre (for purists, in fact, it is almost sacrilege to include them). But the truth is that without them, it would be all the more difficult. We will enjoy this new wave next January 23rd at the Copernicus. Welcome to the hardcore family, guys.
Tickets: from 20€.
Where: Sala Copérnico, at 67 Fernández de los Ríos street (Chamberí).
Mike Love (January 25)
From Hawaii, with his endless dreadlocks and a proposal that cannot be defined in any other way than transforming. The musician loves mixing instruments, playing with loops, with his own voice, taking us on a walk through a territory (his own) full of emotions. Between progressive rock, reggae or even flamenco, his thing is the melting pot of sounds.
Tickets: from 25€.
Where: Sala Villanos, at 18, Bernardino Obregón St. (Embajadores)
Pop X (January 26)
Let’s see how we can define what Pop X is doing every time they appear in a venue. These Italians have been creating a “crazy electro pop project” for twenty years, which is an understatement. Always with the caricature in the form but with authenticity in their concept. You just have to love them.
Tickets: from 20€.
Where: Sala Villanos, at 18, Bernardino Obregón Street (Embajadores).
Sen Senra (January 30)
How many times will he be able to reinvent himself? Sen Senra has once again dynamited his Instagram, erasing all face of what was, removing the hint of what is to come. The Galician composer started his career about ten years ago, when, with his sights set on surfing sounds, he paid tribute to his homeland by riding a bicycle around Baiona. Then came the experimentation, the whisper, the delicacy of a messy and lonely room. And now… a tribute to his roots, to his father, to his place in the world. He will put an end to all this on January 30 in a concert that tastes like a farewell: “La Última Misa” will be the end of PO2054AZ and the concert at the WiZink in 2026, the farewell to this stage.
Tickets: from 38€.
Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya Street (Salamanca district).
Delaossa (January 31)
The rapper Delaossa says goodbye to the month with a concert at Movistar Arena where he will present his latest album, La Madrugá. For this tour and for this album (which the experts of the genre say is the best of his career so far), Delaossa has prepared a show of his own, of which few details have been revealed.
Tickets: from 41€.
Where: Movistar Arena, at 90 Goya Street (Salamanca neighborhood).