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A walking route through eastern Lisbon starting at Rua do Grilo, showing how farms and convents became factory units and how this history shaped the city.

Birds that sing, insects that buzz and creatures that take shape through instruments: a concert that invites audiences into the Musical Bestiary.

The show 'Em Casa d'Amália - The Live Concert' comes to the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon on 21 November 2026, celebrating the life and legacy of Amália Rodrigues with some of the most iconic voices in Portuguese music.

Concert by Niklas Paschburg at Misty Fest, where the German pianist and composer blends neoclassical piano, electronics and ambient pop in an immersive and cinematic show.

Primitive Reason return to Lisbon for a special concert at LX Factory on November 21, with Bad Tomato as opener and material from the album Tips & Shortcuts.

Concert by Alan Stivell at Misty Fest, with a renewed lineup of 10 musicians, celebrating 60 years of career and revisiting emblematic themes of Celtic culture.

Lime Garden make their Lisbon debut on 21 November at LAV, presenting their new album Maybe Not Tonight, with their fusion of garage-rock guitars, synths and hypnotic rhythms. An unmissable night of wonk-pop and the new generation of British rock.

PAUS say goodbye to the stage at Misty Fest, with a unique show celebrating 18 years of career, with images, sounds and a choir of voices.

Maria Arnal, one of the most innovative voices in contemporary Spanish music, takes the stage at Casa Capitão with her work blending electronics, avant-pop and traditional polyphony. A night to discover her award-winning path through sound, technology and art.

Némanus announce two mega concerts for 2026, including a date in Lisbon at Sagres Campo Pequeno. With their fusion of Portuguese music and African, Latin and Brazilian rhythms, they promise a night of dance and celebration.

Concert by Vincent Peirani at Misty Fest, where the French accordionist presents 'Time Reflections', the fourth chapter of his Living Being project, in an intense and imaginative show.

It's the songs. No matter how much talk is spent unraveling the progression of the Cleveland group and the poetic, harmonic, formal qualities gathered and/or lost over nine albums, it's in the memorable trail of the song that their essence endures. Anthemic, lived with heart on sleeve and the urgency of the words that break free, without ever falling into the populist trap (lol, Arcade Fire), but crafted for full-throated chorus and a fixed place in the indie collective consciousness: 'Wasted Days', 'Modern Act', 'On an Edge' or, of course, 'I'm Not Part of Me' in a long list that the most die-hard stans will always shuffle in the memory of that moment when the world seemed full of possibilities or Dylan Baldi's words reflected that college crush. A fundamental part of a possible indie lore that can be born anywhere and shaped the character of Superchunk, Built to Spill or Wavves. Without dwelling on that past, germinated in the lo-fi solitude of a first self-titled album and made real from the canonical 'Attack on Memory', the band led by Baldi, flanked by his longtime sidekick Jayson Gerycz on drums and multi-instrumentalist Chris Brown, continues to match step with their own songwriting instincts with 'Final Summer', their first album on Pure Noise after years of militancy on Carpark. Without deviating too much from a formula outlined in the aforementioned 'Attack on Memory' and definitively stamped on 'Here and Nowhere Else' — a blend of the energy of Hüsker Dü's 'New Day Rising' with the pop instinct of The Replacements — with the necessary twists and turns to keep things fresh over a discography where the ragged dirt of the guitars and the propulsion of the drums served a very catchy sensibility, 'Final Summer' brightens the production and, consequently, the aura of Cloud Nothings in 10 songs that evoke that naturalness of someone who has nothing left to prove. And they don't. So let's sing. BS.