RPS Presents The Weekly Review

It’s an Easter miracle! Thomas Bangalter’s gone classical! Wednesday have forged gold from lead! And Johann got to hang out with Quentin Tarantino (kind of). Hear about it all, on this week’s resurrection-packed episode of The Weekly Review.

In this episode we celebrate the tenth birthday of Primavera Sound's record label,  with the the entire RPS team selecting their favourite albums.

It’s a TV special this week, with Succession and Swarm definitively answering the question of whether we would rather eat the rich or stalk them. The TWR team gets to the bloodied heart of two of this year’s televisual sensations and there is still time for some Renaldo & Clara chat.

The former frontwoman of Anteros relocated back to her hometown of Barcelona to take a break from the touring band lifestyle in the UK, taking time out to follow a path of self-healing and helping others along the way. A path that has taken her right back to where she always had her sights; on making fabulous and irresistible pop. We turn on the mics top hear about her fantastic journey so far.

In this episode Johann Wald interviews the Galician producer and sound designer Artur M Puga about finding spaces for IDM, welcomes Mar to talk about the best TikTok video from last week, starring the daughter of Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars; and David Camilleri tells us why Gerard Pique's King's League is a revolution that will bring a paradigm shifts in sports media.

Two Primavera Sound 2023 headliners release new records this week, which sends the TWR team into panic review mode, while Mar ponders oversharing and the Rauwsalía duo.

Johann Wald connects with the Madrid trio to talk about their new album, La Caída, and looks over the news, including music by artists who have just joined the Primavera Sound 2023 lineup, such as Alison Goldfrapp and Sevdaliza

On TWR this week, we pick over the changes to the Primavera Sound 2023 line up - hello Alison Goldfrapp and Sevdaliza, goodbye Twigs - choose our kings of cringe and review new albums from Yves Tumor and 100 gecs.

Today on The Daily Review, we welcome Albert, Juana and Juanito from fast-rising Barcelona band El Diablo de Shanghai to the RPS studio to talk about Boviscopofobia, their new single and an entirely weird concept about cows. Plus we have new music from Drugdealer and bar italia, plus a song from our album of the week, Fever Ray's Radical Romantics.

Who’s the most embarrassing? Sam Levinson and the Weeknd being HBO flops? Cole Sprouse being the cringiest person alive on Call Her Daddy? Or men with podcasts, generally? Two, erm, men with podcasts and one woman (also with podcast) investigate on The Weekly Review’s great cringe off. Plus, our album is Fever Ray’s delectable Radical Romantics.

Johann Wald receives two young artists from the Spanish scene, who represent different ways of making pop music in 2023. On the one hand, the Valencian MC Kitty 110 brings a new EP; on the other the Sevillian Raul Gomez, aka GOMZ, presents his debut album.

The TWR team celebrates the coming of New Order, laments King Charles’ Coronation woes, looks forward to meme jazz at Primavera Sound 2023 and brings in slowthai’s UGLY as our album of the week.

Johann Wald welcomes experimental duo ZA! and Tarta Relena to talk about the project they have together, in which they celebrate Mediterranean musical traditions, passed through an exuberant psychedelic turbine.

U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy visits us, in extract form, as we talk about domesticity in pop music, while Gorillaz’ Cracker Island is a whole other kind of comfortable. Plus, finally, we talk about the Last of Us. You can hear our full interview with U.S. Girls on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/radiopr...

This week we celebrate the news that you no longer have to take your computer out of your bag when going through security checks by reviewing embarrassing moments of stars messing things up at airports. We also discuss  the latest news from the world of pop, such as Skrillex's new albums and DJs' midlife crises.

This year, according to Mar, Skrillex and Addison Rae “will be the most popular people and everyone will be, like, ‘Wow I didn't see this coming.’ BUT I DID.” With that kind of promise, can you afford NOT to listen to this week’s episode of The Daily Review, in which Mar explains why Addison Rae will change your life and we dig into not one but two new albums from Skrillex? I don’t think you can....

To mark the release of the latest film by the Swedish director Ruben Östlund, we present an interview that we did with him at the Mallorca International Film Festival and a round table with several members of the RPS team to comment on the film, winner of the Palme D'Or at the latest edition of the Cannes festival.

This week on The Weekly Review, we bring you all the news about Pharrell Williams at Louis Vuitton and Rihanna at the Superbowl, while Mar’s adopted mother Caroline Polachek delivers our trip hop revival album of the week.

David Camilleri is an inveterate gamer and addicted to the game on which The Last Of Us series is based. In this episode we talk at length about the TV adaptation, with an emphasis on the supporting character-focused Episode 3 that many critics are calling one of the best episodes in TV history. We love the hype.

It’s an etiquette special on The Weekly Review as the team dishes up ill-earned advice on how to behave at festivals, whether you should wear gloves indoors and how much is too much to pay for concert tickets. 

I have a question for you, Mr. Director. In today's program, Alfonso Lanza comes to La Weekly to answer many of the questions that the festival has received through social media about ticket prices, capacity for concerts in the city, the organisation of free transport, changes in the layout of the Forum and many more questions.

Mo Ayoub joins the TWR team in the studio today to offer his picks from the Primavera Sound 2023 bill; we also talk Lil Yachty’s remarkable new album and Ava Max’s Diamonds & Dancefloors.

Ben Cardew brings you The Cramps, in tribute to Netflix's Wednesday, Lil Yachty's unexpected prog rock explosion, Avalon Emerson's dream pop pivot and a Bon Jovi-esque banger from Ava Max, whose Diamonds & Dancefloors is our album of the week. Truly, all is not as it seems in the world of new music.

We say goodbye to one of the most influential musicians of the New York punk scene, who sadly passed away over the weekend, and round up some of the week's latest releases including The Tubs, Mark William Lewis, Meg Baird, Lil Yachty, Oozing Wound and more.

Friday brings new music from Rosalía, Kari Faux, slowthai, English Teacher, Avalon Emerson, Fever Ray, DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ, Ísadóra - aka Björk's daughter - and more. Our album of the week is from Ava Max and our UK Garage Friday banger is the tune that started it all: Tina Moore's Never Let You Go.