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Time Out
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Music Wins Returns: The Festival That Redefined How We Experience Music in Buenos Aires
After four years, the most beloved festival of the alternative scene is back to turn up the volume on Buenos Aires' cultural calendar. On Sunday, November 2nd at Mandarine Park, an edition that doesn't play it safe is coming: it brings an international lineup with its own weight, aesthetic identity, and a carefully curated spirit. In a city where the music scene keeps growing and diversifying, Music Wins stands out as a different experience: a festival that doesn't follow trends — it anticipates them. Which Bands Are Playing at Music Wins Festival Among the highlights, Massive Attack arrives from Bristol with an audiovisual show in collaboration with United Visual Artists, promising to be as political as it is hypnotic. Following them are the legendary Primal Scream, making their triumphant return to Buenos Aires, and Tash Sultana, with their arsenal of instruments and loops defying any label. Also performing are the French synth-pop elegance of L'Impératrice (designed to make you move), The Whitest Boy Alive (the Scandinavian precision of Erlend Øye in a band format), and Yo La Tengo, eternal lo-fi icons with a sensitivity that shakes your soul. Is there more? Yes, of course. Joining the lineup is FCUKERS, an emerging gem with global projection, and soon the local acts completing the roster will be announced, maintaining the Argentine and diverse spirit that has always characterized the festival. In its fourth edition, Music Wins not only confirms that it's alive but proves there is another way to experience live music — beyond algorithms, easy hits, or fleeting hype. In a context where Buenos Aires' scene vibrates and reinvents itself, this festival is the place to be if you love music as a total experience. Time Out Buenos Aires is the official media partner of the Music Wins Festival taking place on November 2nd. And here's a tip: tickets are available here. If you have a Visa BBVA card, set your alarm for Thursday, August 7th at 10 a.m. to take advantage of the exclusive presale (yes, with 6 interest-free installments). For everyone else, general sales start Friday, August 8th at the same time.
News.com.au
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Blues roots star Tash Sultana shares the medical hell that inspired new songs
When the universe started dealing out 'heavy emotional trauma', Australian singer songwriter Tash Sultana headed into the studio to process it all. The gender-fluid global blues and roots star, who sells more than 500,000 tickets on their world tours, has had the roughest year of their life. After suffering a series of inexplicable anaphylactic attacks, they were finally diagnosed with Mass Cell Activation Syndrome. They grieved family and friends who lost their lives, and then their wife Jaimie was diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumour in her right knee. The single Hold On became their anthem for resilience when Jaimie's cancer treatment took a shocking, disastrous turn. 'It's a really, really rare type of cancer so it had been left undetected for like, years. We found out about all of that towards the end of last year,' Sultana said. 'And then everyone went on holiday and we were just left with that information. We didn't know like what grade it was, how bad it was, if it had gotten into lymph nodes or blood. 'It's been a f***ing absolute balls up with the surgery. They operated on the wrong thing, on the wrong side of the knee. 'A lot of people have told me it's insane how common (medical malpractice) is. And a lot of other people have said that it's a made-up story, that there's no way that this could possibly be true and that surgeons and doctors wouldn't do that. I wish that was the case.' As Jaimie continues her recovery after the tumour was removed, Sultana has readied their new Return to the Roots EP, which is released on May 30. The Australian big stage slayer will perform it for the first time on their upcoming American tour, where some shows sold out in mere minutes. 'It was just all pelting on at the one moment and I only really know to just go into the studio and kind of continue on as normal until told otherwise,' Sultana said. You can hear the emotional outpouring in songs like Hold On and Hazard to Myself, the catch in their voice, a deep breath. The artist who plays dozens of instruments wanted to finally make their voice is the star. And singing out their pain felt like exorcising it. 'I had to get it all out and I really, really sang on that record. It's the sort of real performance you can't do every day in the studio,' they said. 'I don't know if it is a piece that I even want to actually perform. It was more of just like a statement that I wanted to write.' It's more likely they will add recent singles including Milk and Honey, and maybe Ain't It Kinda Funny, featuring beloved Canadian singer songwriter City and Colour, a regular visitor to Australian shores. Those songs are already adding to Sultana's impressive presence on streaming platforms, where their music has had more than one billion plays on Spotify alone, a huge achievement for an Australian artist. But like a handful of local artists whose careers are much bigger overseas than at home, and who command audiences in the tens of thousands for their headline concerts and festival performances, Sultana said they feel 'really overlooked' in Australia. Sultana is a truly independent artist who not only writes, plays and records everything on their songs but also an entrepreneur who is a founder of Lonely Lands Agency, Lonely Lands Studio and recently launched Lonely Lands Liquids and The I Am Me Foundation. 'I feel really overlooked, little bit ignored here considering the scale of what I've been doing and the fact that no one else is actually doing anything like it,' Sultana said. 'I've also not really been available in this market for a very long time too. So, I haven't been releasing albums, I haven't being playing shows in Australia or doing a tour here. I just packed up and went overseas because the demand was there tenfold off the back of Covid when it was very shaky here. 'The economy is still f***ed here and that affects everything with festivals falling over, people losing their jobs, leaving the industry, people not coming back to see shows when they can't afford to pay the f***ing rent or their mortgage repayments. 'The golden age for musicians is when you're really, really young and your fan base is really, really young so you have to continually reinvent and recreate your profile. And I feel pretty good where I'm at right now after a few years of growing through my frustrations with my career.'
