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The group was booed at the Santos Popular festivities, and CM has learned that they have even had to cancel concerts due to the legal widow of Tony Lemos.
Fernando Ribeiro, lead singer of Moonspell, revealed on the podcast Posto Emissor his son's musical tastes, born from his relationship with Sónia Tavares of The Gift: “I already took him to see Iron Maiden, but he liked the cartoons more”
On the podcast Posto Emissor, Fernando Ribeiro recalled the early days of Moonspell, when the band was part of the European black metal scene, which became famous for cases in Norway of musicians setting churches on fire: “I love the genre, but I distanced myself. That was a great stupidity.”
The Portuguese band Moonspell will release their 14th album in July, titled “Far from God”, which lead singer Fernando Ribeiro says felt like the “most important record” of the group's life, in a new fusion of metal and gothic.
A Friday of sun, heat, and plenty of new music. On this week's menu, there are new albums from Paul McCartney, Rita Vian, Richie Campbell, Kurt Vile, Bia Ferreira, Boards of Canada, and Violet Grohl, as well as fresh tracks from Ariana Grande, Milhanas, Moonspell, and Calema, plus duets by Blaya with Maria João, Ana Bacalhau with Mimicat, and Sérgio Onze with Gisela João. All this and much more to listen to here.
Analysis of the impact of the artist Bad Bunny in Portugal, highlighting how he represents a new, globalised and liberated generation.
The band Manila announces their debut album, accompanied by the release of the track 'Tou mal'.
With a new EP, singer-songwriter Gui Aly will return in July to NOS Alive, the festival where he made his live debut in 2021 after winning the EDP Live Bands 2020 competition.
“If I were to go to Eurovision, I would also like to go alone and control my own space,” says Gui Aly, a national breakthrough artist with African roots and songs in English who won the EDP Live Bands competition out of 350 bands.
He could have been a lawyer, but the courtroom bar did not attract him. Or a gymnastics teacher – he liked the horizontal bar, but his dream was different. José Cid did a backflip in life and defended the thesis that he was born for music. Listen to the new episode of Geração 40 here.
Bad Bunny performed his first show in Portugal, with the artist being described as the boss of Lisbon.
Valete discusses the current state of Hip Hop in Portugal, highlighting a perceived lack of countercultural spirit and systemic critique within the genre.
Days before his debut in Portugal at the Estádio da Luz, Bad Bunny gave a concert in Barcelona that featured an unannounced guest.
A well-known figure in the Setúbal music scene, he released the album “Viagem” in September 2025. The news of his death was shared by A Garota Não: “I will never step on a stage with him again, and that gives me a sadness I cannot even classify.”
The musician was part of several groups throughout the 80s, such as Casino Twist, which participated in the first collective album of Rock Rendez-Vous in 1984, recalled João Carlos Callixto.
He was 71 years old.
Lisbon, 21 May 2026 (Lusa) -- The lineup for this year's edition of the Festa do Avante!, taking place in September, includes concerts by artists such as Carolina Deslandes, Carlão, Pedro Jóia, Ney Matogrosso, and António Zambujo.
After performing in Angola, Marvvila was scheduled to perform a show last Sunday in Lisbon. The singer's management states that the contracting company, QSamba, did not send the flight tickets from Luanda to Lisbon.
Santos & Pecadores are back and are starring in a 6-episode special season of Posto Emissor, always featuring guests. In the fifth episode, Marisa Liz sings ‘Momento Final’ and the band gives new life to ‘É O Que É’, a song from the singer’s repertoire. Speaking about the dilemmas artists face, the singer jokingly argues that they should always have an adult accompanying them: “I don’t know why that decision isn’t made by the government.”
Santos & Pecadores chose to perform Marisa Liz’s ‘É O Que É’ from a female perspective for the “Estas Canções Falam Por Si” project, and in the Posto Emissor studio, Olavo Bilac explains why it made sense to sign the version “in a woman’s name”. In the fifth episode of this special BLITZ podcast series, Marisa Liz also sings ‘Momento Final’, one of the band’s biggest hits.
Bandidos do Cante did not qualify. In a show marked by a strong political tone, the Israeli delegation secured a spot in the final gala, amidst protests and demonstrations by activists at the venue.
Portugal did not secure a spot in the Eurovision Song Contest grand final.
Portugal did not secure a spot in the Eurovision Song Contest grand final.
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Portugal has been eliminated from the Eurovision Song Contest before the final round.
In the fourth episode of the Santos & Pecadores Special Podcast, Delfins recreate ‘Superstar’ by Santos & Pecadores, while the latter, along with guests Miguel Ângelo and Fernando Cunha, breathe new life into the hit ‘Um Lugar ao Sol’. The adventures experienced on stage by both bands during the 90s were the topic of conversation.
Enchufada, the 'cradle' of Buraka Som Sistema, Branko, and many other architects of a new musical world, celebrates two decades of constant vibration with 'Enchufada: A Lisbon Club Story', an album that brings together some of the label's greatest hits. Branko, one of its instigators and most notorious agitators, guides us through 20 years of a musical laboratory called Lisbon.
“Ö” is the album where this duo uses genres from the past and crosses them, attempting to create a new combination that sounds simultaneously like club and pop music. They want to make us dance now, at this very moment.
“Without a doubt, the three of them surprised me in musical terms, but I don't understand anything about their courses”. David Mendonça, the only member of Vizinhos who studied music at university, talks on Posto Emissor about the courses his bandmates were taking when they met in Évora
Santos & Pecadores are back and are starring in a 6-episode special season of Posto Emissor, always featuring guests. At the origin of this series of conversations and musical sharing, which BLITZ presents on Wednesdays, is the project 'Estas Canções Falam Por Si': in the third episode, Camané recreates 'John Big Dream' by Santos & Pecadores, while the band, together with their guest, gives new life to 'Que Flor se Abre no Peito'. The first experiences of Santos & Pecadores with fado were one of the topics of the conversation.
