Photo Credit: Christian Bertrand
Primavera Sound, Barcelona’s premiere summer-opening festival, has grown from humble indie beginnings to a multi-city mega-fest with a global calendar of events and a near-perfect perennial lineup. With roughly 70k fans visiting the Parc del Fórum each day across the festivals main three days (within a whole week of official Primavera concerts across the whole city), it’s natural that not everyone will leave happy. However, despite the growing pains and generational vibe shifts, Primavera proves once again that it deftly walks the line of being both a tastemaker as well as an adept follower of the shifting tastes of younger generations.
You might be interested in my 2024 Primavera Sound guide, which covers basically everything from culinary critiques to festival facts. You can find my 2024 Primavera Sound writeup, or 9 Reasons Why Primavera Sound is a Bucket List Barcelona Festival, here.
For this 2025 edition and this article below, I’ll focus my Primavera Sound coverage on a general review of the lineup, crowd control, festival layout and facilities, and what to expect from next year as well as in overall rating for the 2025 edition.
If you’d like to check out some quick-read lists for my top 11 sets this year you can see that here.
Finally, for a fun look at the changing landscape of pop vs. underground music related to Primavera Sound and its past and future selves, you can see that here.
Without further ado, I present to you my 2025 Primavera Sound official recap and guide!
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Photo Credit: Clara Orozco
This year’s lineup, for me, was really something else. As I mentioned in my 2024 Primavera Sound official guide, each recent year has seen younger fans typically chasing the major headliners, and old heads (I think I’m getting there, if not already there) hitting the underground sets on smaller stages.
One of the reasons I’ll gladly go back to Primavera each year (aside from the fact that I live here and can be home in 20min from the festival, the weather is incredible, I meet amazing people, and I write these phenomenal little reviews), is the diversity of the lineup. Sure, there are techno or metal or hip-hop or even pop-focused fests I can check out with a deep dive into any of those genres. However, without fail I can always count on dozens of acts I’d like to see each year at Primavera across multiple genres. This year I shaved my “would see” list of 60 or so names down to about 30…
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