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Weekend club and concert guide: Stockholm

Looking to go clubbing in Stockholm this weekend? Check out these weekend club and concert tips from Kalendarium (Click links for more information)

Published: 20 March 2008 16:31 CET

Fux is a incredible b-more venture with Scottie B. They and they are playing at the Redline Bar. In Sätra! Agge, Turkdisco, Stefski and the gang have put together a party that tends to sway from total genius to total lunacy. We love it.

Gentleman’s Disco

Gentlemen Drivers play electro music with heart. The fabulous French band are in town for a concert at Debaser Medis organized by the Swedish Music Club. Don’t miss the break in 2042 L.A. Dreams: the most beautiful moment in music.

Soulmates play classic house club at Grodan. Maundy Thursday music with Mad Mats and the crew.

Kommitén promises to bring you the most techno-filledMaundy Thursday ever. Miriam Pemberton takes it up a notch and Debaser Medis transforms into a colorful “blåkulla”.

Housewives are the new residents at Tvåtrettiofemett. It’s going to be a Good Friday to die for. Mega-filthy house music with Adeline and LaFleur. That can’t be bad.

Popular Favorites is a new monthly club at Sugar Bar. The Black Rose Band from the United States will be there to warm things up on opening night on Thursday. Prepare for what will be a rock show of the very highest quality.

Don’t Blame The Youth are primed to play two thirds of the Pleasant set. It won’t be as hard as usual, but who can resist happy b-more, top soca and the finest euro-electro. Come by for drinks!

Meet the Spanish rapper bringing flamenco and bossa nova into hip-hop

Spanish rapper Anton Alvarez known as 'C. Tangana' poses in Madrid on April 29, 2021. Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP

The 30-year-old has emerged as one of the world’s biggest Spanish-language stars since his third album “El Madrileno” — the Madrilenian — came out in February. That ranks him alongside his superstar ex-girlfriend Rosalia, the Grammy-winning Catalan singer with whom he has co-written several hits.

C. Tangana, whose real name is Anton Alvarez Alfaro, has come a long way since a decade ago when he became known as a voice of disillusioned Spanish youth in the wake of the financial crisis.These days his rap is infused with everything from reggaeton and rumba to deeply traditional styles from Spain and Latin America, with a voice often digitised by autotune.

“It’s incredible that just when my music is at its most popular is exactly when I’m doing something a bit more complex, more experimental and less
trendy,” he told AFP in an interview.

And he is unashamed to be appealing to a wider audience than previously: his dream is now to make music “that a young person can enjoy in a club or someone older can enjoy at home while cooking”.

‘People are tired’

The rapper, who sports a severe semi-shaved haircut and a pencil moustache, has worked with Spanish flamenco greats including Nino De Elche, Antonio Carmona, Kiko Veneno, La Hungara and the Gipsy Kings.

In April he brought some of them together for a performance on NPR’s popular “Tiny Desk Concert” series, which has already drawn nearly six million
views on YouTube.

Shifting away from trap, one of rap’s most popular sub-genres, and venturing into a more traditional repertoire was a dangerous move — especially for someone with a young fanbase to whom rumba, bossa nova and bolero sound old-fashioned.

“I think people are tired. They’ve had enough of the predominant aesthetic values that have previously defined pop and urban music,” he said.

Parts of his latest album were recorded in Latin America with Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club, Uruguayan
singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, Mexican folk artist Ed Maverick and Brazil’s Toquinho, one of the bossa nova greats.

“What struck me most everywhere I went was the sense of tradition and the way people experienced the most popular music, and I don’t mean pop,” he said.

A new direction

C. Tangana started out in 2006 rapping under the name Crema. When the global economic crisis swept Spain a few years later, hard-hitting trap was
the perfect way to voice the angst of his generation. But after more than a decade of rapping, things changed.

“When I was heading for my 30s, I hit this crisis, I was a bit fed up with what I was doing… and decided to give voice to all these influences that I
never dared express as a rapper,” he said.

The shift began in 2018 with “Un veneno” (“A poison”) which came out a year after his big hit “Mala mujer” (“Bad woman”).

And there was a return to the sounds of his childhood when he used to listen to Spanish folk songs at home, raised by a mother who worked in
education and a journalist father who liked to play the guitar. The Latin American influences came later.

“It started when I was a teenager with reggaeton and with bachata which were played in the first clubs I went to, which were mostly Latin,” he said.

Studying philosophy at the time, he wrote his first raps between stints working in call centres or fast-food restaurants.

As to what comes next, he doesn’t know. But one thing he hopes to do is collaborate with Natalia Lafourcade, a Mexican singer who dabbles in folk, rock and pop — another jack of all musical trades.

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