Lisbon Blog

The connection between reggae and hip-hop is almost visceral, like if both music styles share a common DNA. Even if themes like fraternity and peace are better linked to reggae, and not so much to hip-hop, the fact is that the standing for some ideals and for a common truth show up as shared features [...]

There are some cemeteries which have become tourist attractions – because of their architecture (like the Cemeterio Monumental in Buenos Aires), or because famous people are buried there (like the Père Lachaise in Paris), and so they have become a place of pilgrimage for fans, and anybody interested celebrity. In the western part of Lisbon, in [...]

On April 8 there will be a Gotan Project concert at the Coliseum dos Recreios in Lisbon. This already very famous electronic tango band is composed by the French DJ Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Federer Müller and Argentine artist Eduardo Makaroff large accordion and guitar. Gotan Project is not only a union of DJ culture [...]

Look dear, I’ve seen almost everything, I never get tired of going out there and looking for trouble, and I still see everything, everything. The X Club in Lisbon is one of the best spots to go with your partner. To begin, search it as Club X in the Internet, you have to become a [...]

The wall fell and that was it. Or perhaps not. The left collapsed, again, and the free market prevailed, to give us “peer to peer,” online porn, more xenophobia, and yet more terrorism. And amidst all this, Pink Floyd’s The Wall remains a pillar which is returned to time and time again, asking the same [...]

The music of Joan Wasser (the real name of the artist Joan as Police Woman) is quite hard to explain, like a complicated name riddle.  An enormous carrousel of emotions joint with an immense soul overflow, all of this combined with a powerful alternative and rock attitude make of this artist a unique figure amongst [...]