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Aerosmith concert in New York

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

This June 29 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York, the American hard rock band Aerosmith will be performing live. The concert is part of the annual meeting of the New York band with its audience coming to enjoy their hits. Aerosmith is a band formed in 1970 and consists of Joe Perry, guitarist, Steve Tyler, lead singer, Tom Hamilton, bassist Joey Kramer, drummer, Brad Whitford, guitarist. Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay Ray Tabano were Initially part of the band In 1972, Aerosmith signed with Columbia Records to launch several albums which were an immediate success, earning multi-platinum disc for sales. In just three years the band was consolidated as a group and musically praised with the album Toys in the Attic, becoming stars in the rock world. By the end of the 70 they were known throughout the world and had imposed a musical sound that has accompanied them so far. However, the rapid rise, the exhausting days of touring and recording took their toll on the group, some members started doing hard drugs that resulted in conflicting relations and the departure of some members. These complications led to a decline in production of the band, between 1980 and 1984 they released one album Rock in a Hard Place, achieving a gold record, without achieving platinum as in previous albums. Only in 1987 they were able to recover the public´s affection with the album Permanent Vacation, achieving the success rates of the 70. The 80 and 90 conducted new productions that achieved notable successes, Aerosmith is one of the bands that have achieved the highest... read more

The chiringuitos (bars) on the beach

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

It is one of the postcard images culled from the successful marketing campaign under the slogan “Spain is different”. Do you remember it? Don´t you know it? Well, I mean that picture of a beach bar (said of an unstable establishment between a kiosk and a food peddler located on the beach) filled to the brim with people, where you are uncomfortable and bad food is served. Well, dear traveler, that does not exist in Spain. Fortunately. The current bars have become what they are: comfortable spaces to relax, to taste typical Mediterranean dishes, where sunbathing and live music makes them a summer oasis. The most elegant, also have been reworded so that they are no longer called bars. They are the exclusive beach clubs. All beaches on the Mediterranean coast, and in the cosmopolitan city of Barcelona is not an exception to this premise, these beach bars are comfortable restaurants (some decorated with designer furniture) which serves traditional dishes from this part of the world, in the vast majority of cases, well cooked by local chefs. Juicy paellas, fresh fish or salt-grilled sardines on skewers, colorful salads , frozen desserts and some other international succor cuisine dish (like pasta or grilled chicken) often are on the menu of most beach bars in Barcelona. Of course, there will be one that gives her special touch with a different recipe and / or more elaborate. Apart from eating, some have showers, hammocks and parasols services and liven up the evening with live music. Paz Vela and Bestial, both in La Barceloneta, are some of the bars that are located in... read more

Portishead concert in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Product of his extreme aesthetic need the fundamental works of Dylan Thomas are contained in a volume that does not reach more than two hundred pages. This is an approximate amount of barely 100 poems written during his lifetime in increased time spans convinced of the need of not to make art, but only to create that that is absolutely essential. Although it is difficult to resist the temptation of wishing he had ritten poetry more often, his fiction is significantly heavier compared with the view of the extraordinary results obtained. It would be unfair and inconsiderate to blame him for anything. For its very title, which coincides with the first verse of the poem, are compositions of raving beauty that make you vibrate, you feel pushed to the limit, words to spread into the world in silence which may be reached only after digging into a foreign language within the language itself, to use that style as suggested by a certain French philosopher, the phrase of Proust that suggests that all masterpieces are written in a kind of foreign language. In perhaps similar way, in the eighteen years of their existence of the cult British band Portishead, have only produced three studio albums. It Is said they are taking some time working in the fourth, but as Geoff Barrow admitted last January along with singer and founding member Beth Gibbon , it may take at least ten other damn years. The same dosage, this same slow and pure crystallization process seems to have rubbed off on their own live performances, of which there are only five scheduled this... read more