Hinds,
garage rock group:
"With podcasts we are pure, we gobble them up whole and in order"
The audience for the Madrid quartet made up of Carlota Cosials, Ana Perrote, Ade Martín and Amber Grimbergen has always been more outside than inside the Spanish market.
In 2016 they performed at the Glastonbury Festival with a solo album on the street (
Leave me Alone
).
In 2020 their third and last album,
The Prettiest Curse
, was released, and this summer they will repeat at the Lollapalooza festival.
In Spain, they will be seen in August at the Covaleda Fest, in Soria.
Wet Leg
, from Wet Leg.
The Hinds wanted to bring this British post-punk duo to their Party Planet festival, but ever since Harry Styles covered their song
Wet Dream
on BBC Radio 1 at the end of May, they've been left out.
This album, they say, “is pure and daring.
The lyrics are fun and clever;
the
riffs
of the guitars, super simple, and the melodies, catchy.
Long live the
Wet Leg
!”
Deforme Semanal
, with Isa Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer.
A
podcast
—winner of the Best Podcast of the Year at the Ondas Globales Awards 2022— that addresses life and contemporary culture with a mix of history, literature, philosophy and comedy.
Perrote discovered it from a conversation with a friend about the manipulation they suffered from her ex.
His friend recommended the episode
The Perfect Narcissist
.
Perrote listens to him when she makes ceramics or paints: "They give a lot of information and I don't want to miss any detail," she says.
Off Menu
, with Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Food and laughter from two British comedians who invite celebrities to select the menu of their dreams.
“I love food and I enjoy the stories that come out of guests when they talk about it,” explains Perrote.
It is one of those
podcasts
to get "in the background, to be at home or for a walk".
Mr Garcia
Luna Miguel, poet and novelist: "Listening to the authors puts another accent on the book"
"Bad Bunny is literature," claims Luna Miguel.
After his first novel, El funeral de Lolita (Lumen, 2018) and El colloquio de las perras (Capitán Swing, 2019) —a barking conversation with 12 Spanish-speaking writers to extinguish the race of the “macho writer”—, his most recent works They
are the collection of poems
Male Poetry
(La Bella Warsaw, 2021) and the essay
Leer Mata
(La Caja Books, 2022), on his theory of somatic reading.
Moon
face, from Los Yolos.
At a time when Miguel's list was dominated by
trap
and reggaeton, the poet was amused that these punk sounds suddenly slipped in, which she discovered at Bar Toro, in Raval (Barcelona).
“When I listened to them, it was like going back to a very dirty eighties but with a bit of present”.
The friend is you
, with Aloma Rodríguez and Andrea Toribio.
Two friends and literary critics analyze literary news from a feminist perspective.
“In my opinion, it is the best book
podcast
in Spain.
There are some more, but they are usually quite promotional”.
Land of women
, by María Sánchez.
"She is an incredible poet and a very powerful essayist," describes Miguel, who appreciates that she is the writer who reads her own book.
“I'm not a big fan of the audiobook, but being able to listen to the author herself is an extra experience.
Sometimes, when you read literature, you read it with a TV news accent, but when you suddenly hear María Sánchez with her Córdoba accent or Andrea Abreu with her Canarian accent, it gives the book another dimension and it's beautiful”.
Mr Garcia
Iván de la Nuez, art critic and exhibition curator: "In an audiobook I look for something more than the mere fact that a book is read to me"
The Cuban critic has just published
La Larga Marca
(Rialta Ediciones, 2022), a volume that brings together two of his most representative titles:
Red Fantasy
(2006) —where he reflects on the dazzlement of Western left-wing intellectuals in the face of the Cuban revolution— and
The Communist Manifesto
(2013), an analysis of the fetishistic and recycling tendency of capitalist society.
His selection of recommendations is not random.
De la Nuez wanted to go beyond what comes from the United States and what is most popular.
In F sharp.
20 years is not all
, from Interactive.
The Cuban band led by Roberto Carcassés mixes jazz with other genres of popular music and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
“This group has functioned as a musical agora, a democratic space in which its members enter and leave maintaining or founding other projects.
They have renewed the conga, which they have even placed in the public debate on the island”, explains De la Nuez.
Pop Culture Trenches
, with Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado.
A
podcast
born within Radio Consonni in which various facets of
mainstream
culture are addressed .
For the art critic, "pop appears as a kind of cultural battlefield whose controversies define political and social issues."
King Kong Theory
, voiced by Rossy de Palma.
The Spanish actress gives voice to the autobiographical essay by Virginie Despentes, a reference in feminism and gender theory.
In it, the author speaks openly about prostitution, rape, pornography, the repression of desire and motherhood.
For De la Nuez, the Spanish actress transforms the experience: “she turns a battle book into an intimate and very personal text”.
The exhibition curator also recommends the audio projects of the artist Verónica Gerber Bicecci, such as
Migrant Words
.
Mr Garcia
Clara Roquet, screenwriter and film director: "I find the mix of high culture references with popular culture and
new age
very interesting"
The screenwriter of
10,000 km
(2014) and
Petra
(2018) has this year won the Goya for Best New Director for
Libertad
(2021), her debut film, which opens in November 2022. The film she has co-written with Mounia Akl —
Costa Brava, Lebanon
(2021), winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the London Film Festival— is now in theaters.
Caprisongs
, by FKA Twigs.
The singer and Clara Roquet are the same age (34 years old) and when the filmmaker heard this album for the first time she felt identified: “It talks about that moment where you are a little lost, you get older, but you are not yet ready to leave behind certain innocence."
From electronic
rhythm
and
blues
, the British artist speaks of a mixture of feelings "deeply, at the same time very millennial, and a little naughty".
Stretching the gum
, by Carolina Iglesias and Victoria Martín.
“The
most necessary, feminist and fun
podcast in Spain.
They do not leave a puppet with a head”.
He likes to listen to it when he is cleaning the house or exercising.
"Although sometimes I have to stop what I'm doing because of a fit of laughter."
The optic nerve
, by María Gainza.
It is for Roquet a perfect audiobook for the summer.
Her friend, director Pedro Martín-Calero, recommended it to her.
“It's like accessing a kind of personal diary as well as a review of different artists.
The author relates them to her own vital moments”, she says.
Mr Garcia
Diego Corbalán (Magius), illustrator: "I play music when I'm drawing or doing nothing, in bed, before sleeping"
The Murcian cartoonist won the National Comic Prize for
Spring for Madrid
(2020) in 2021.
In this graphic novel, the mafia is not on the street, but in the upper echelons: corruption and racketeering permeate politicians, businessmen, journalists, the police, and the royal family.
He inspired a podcast that he listened to when he finished coloring
The Gemini Method
(2018), a comic about the United States mafia in the seventies based on real events.
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
, from Burzum.
He discovered this Norwegian
black metal
group led by Count Grishnackh years ago, among the many tapes that were in the room of one of his classmates from his college in Granada.
“I thought it was very strange music, but I couldn't stop listening to it.
It was something that changed the way I see music.
It is not at all a record to dance to”.
V, the sewers of the State
, by Álvaro de Cózar.
Before finishing
The Gemini Method
(2018), Magius had in mind to focus his next comic on the mafia in Spain.
One day, by chance, he came across this research series on the history of Spanish corruption.
“I was very surprised to hear Villarejo talk about the harassment of a dermatologist.
So I rejected the subject of the mafia seen as something criminal, of the underworld, and I focused on the political and business world.”
The Silmarillion
, by JRR Tolkien.
The compilation of works by the author of
The Lord of the Rings
narrates the creation of Eä and the birth of the most important races of Arda.
Magius was never attracted to Tolkien's most famous works, but this one: "That universe of the writer that has to do with European, Mesopotamian genetics, interests me because it is related to mythology and religions."
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