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Tori Sparks - A Metaphorical Cabinet of Curiosities
It’s a soothing experience to listen to someone speak with such fluency from the creative otherworld. Tori Sparks strikes an elegant balance between the shaman and the technician.
Listening to her talk about music is like a masterclass in the business and practice of the music industry. She speaks as fluently on the athletics of caring for her voice as she speaks about the strategy of band management, flitting from subject to subject with the speed and grace of a bird.

Oliver Blakemore
3 min read


Dylan Cloud: Round 2
Every now and then, life feels like a story. It’s poetic and makes sense. If you pay attention, you can even see it. A few years ago, I had a conversation with Dylan Cloud about a song that he talked about as one of the first times he properly felt like he knew what he was doing. It was called “Straight On,” and it was cool. And yesterday, a more thoughtful and self-aware Dylan Cloud expressed to me that he’s sitting on a library of material that he’s all but vibrating to sha

Oliver Blakemore
3 min read


Adam Giles Levy: Deliri(um) is Reality
Long have we waited for this new EP by Adam Giles Levy. But first, let's revisit Love Not Rage - The Live Set Session Recorded in Slow Sound Studio. It's an important blast from the past.

Oliver Blakemore
4 min read


The VIL VEINS and Fuzzy Zen
The Vil Veins are the kind of power trio who exemplify the need for those three kinds of musician.

Oliver Blakemore
3 min read


Brighter Days - Liam Cloud's favourite song
Liam has released “Brighter Days.” It is hands down his favorite song. The same way that John Mayer feels about "Gravity"

Oliver Blakemore
3 min read


A Shared Touch of Madness
United in Mess-making,Lina and Anthony are seasoned musicians in collusion for their mutual success. Lina’s heading a project called Vosk.

Oliver Blakemore
5 min read


Why Wherever Sessions?
Every now and then, the world of music needs to be reminded that it’s for people and by people.

Oliver Blakemore
3 min read


Dylan Says Go Straight On
Dylan Cloud Can’t Honestly Be Like That…Can He? This is the story of a song. Wrote some lyrics—didn’t take very long. And they sound so good

Oliver Blakemore
5 min read


Podcast 002 - Liam Cloud
Liam Cloud was here from Day One when Front Page News grew from a mad mad idea in Kristina's brain, to being the event series we love.

projectmindbend
2 min read


How Our Barcelona crawls out of this Mad World with wicked music events
Our final concert this Summer happens on the 26th of June. About a year after the Liceu Symphony Orchestra serenaded plants post-Lockdown.

digitalsushi101
2 min read


Music Under Lockdown
Let’s face it. This curfew and state of alarm went a long way to killing off the music scene. Thanks to you, moving forward is possible!

panmartinez
4 min read


Why Front Page News Will Happen in Denver
Why Front Page News Will Happen in Denver: Live music concerts in Barcelona recently got resuscitated despite so many odds. Why stop there?

Oliver Blakemore
3 min read


Concert Venue Extraordinaire - Winter Edition
This secret venue is located atop of one of the biggest and most well stocked paper stores in Europe. In the heart of the city: Urquinaona.

panmartinez
2 min read


Music and Happiness
If there is such a thing as the collective unconscious, its manifestation is music. Music is practically a mind-altering substance.

Oliver Blakemore
4 min read


Bryan Curtis and a post-genre groove
Bryan Curtis is a Barcelona-based drummer, but he struck me as one of these people that I've started thinking of as Citizens of the World...

Oliver Blakemore
6 min read


Alex Lebron Torrent – a musician for these times
Life without music would be a mistake. Alex Lebron was born in 1985 in Cali, Colombia, and was adopted by my Catalan father in 87.
thepaulburnett
27 min read


Front Page News Leap Day Party February 29th 2020
There’s an old joke about not being able to organise a few drinks in a brewery, and I can tell you it wasn’t one of those occasions.

AlternateReality
7 min read
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