The smallest sibling of the Primavera Sound superbrand, Porto’s edition of the music festival sometimes feels as if it receives the headliner hand-me-downs of its Barcelona brother.
This year, there’s Blur, Halsey, Kendrick Lamar, Fred Again and Spanish superstar Rosalia – but Portugal misses out on a sprinkling of the big names who performed in Spain only days earlier, including Calvin Harris, Depeche Mode, and Christine and the Queens. To add insult to injury, all of those artists are on the bill for a third Primavera festival this year – the newcomer Primavera Madrid, which celebrates its first-ever outing the same weekend.
