Primavera 2025 is kicking off today (June 5) – check out how you can watch the festival online below.
This year’s edition will see the festival return to the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, Spain, and is fully sold out. Marking the 23rd edition of Primavera Sound, it features a stacked line-up that includes Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan as headliners.
Running between today and Saturday (June 5-7), Amazon Music will exclusively stream all coverage of the event.
The broadcast will be available on its Twitch and Prime Video platforms, and footage is set to begin each day that the festival runs from 1:30pm ET.
As well as showcasing some of the most highly anticipated live performances of the event, the coverage from Amazon will also include interviews with artists and various content showing the behind-the-scenes of the festival.
Charli XCX’s performance will be part of a co-headline set with Troye Sivan, following the two hitting the road together last year in celebration of the success of the former’s ‘Brat’ album.
For Chappell Roan, the headline slot comes as the former NME Cover star has been taking over the charts in the last 12 months with hits like ‘Pink Pony Club’ and ‘Good Luck, Babe!’. It also follows her dropping the highly anticipated single ‘The Giver’ in March and sharing an update on when fans can expect her sophomore album.
For Sabrina Carpenter, the gig comes following a huge run of world tour dates celebrating her album ‘Short N’ Sweet’, and ahead of her headlining BST Hyde Park in London for the first time.
Other scheduled performances include Haim, Beach House, TV On The Radio, Wet Leg, Floating Points, Fontaines D.C., LCD Soundsystem and Jamie xx.
Recently it was confirmed that Wolf Alice had been added to the line-up after Clairo was forced to cancel her appearance due to “logistical issues”.
In a four-star review of the 2024 festival, which saw sets from the likes of Pulp, Lana Del Rey, The National, SZA and Troye Sivan, NME shared: “After a weekend in its midst, it’s not hard to see why Primavera Sound is so beloved.
“There are few gripes to be had here, and the main one is the several agonising clashes you have to do battle with each day – a problem that can only come with having such a stacked line-up in the first place. A fun, freeing few days in Barcelona full of great music is never something to complain about, though. Roll on 2025.”
Reneé Rapp is seen as a “huge inspiration” by SZA.
The 25-year-old artist performed SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, accompanied by two acoustic guitarists and a harp player. SZA, 35, was deeply moved by the rendition.
She posted a short video of the moment on Instagram Stories and wrote: “Renee is a HUGE inspiration, energy, voice spirit.”
During her chat with the BBC, Renee shared her thoughts about the track. She said: “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”
Renee is currently in the middle of promoting her second album, Bite Me, and opened up about how much more enjoyable it was to create compared to her first project.
She explained: “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed.
“So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.”
