Towards the end of September each year, residents of the Catalan capital bid adieu to the warmer months the only way they know how—throwing a fiesta!
As part of the five-day long summer send-off known as La Merce Festival, the streets and clubs of Barcelona will be awash with beats from all over the world as festival-within-a-festival [BAM] ribbons through the city.
Navigating through a maze of Spanish revelry can be difficult at the best of times, so we’ve rounded up some gems from the line-up below.
-
BAM: The Duke & The King
Who would have thought that the careful, Simon & Garfunkel-like vocals of The Duke & the King could actually belong to ...
-
BAM: Melissa Laveaux
Born in Canada to Haitian parents, singer-songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Mélissa Laveaux started to teach herself how to re...
-
BAM: Tonino Carotone
A longtime disciple of Italian music, the former protégé of Manu Chao, Spaniard Tonino Carotone, presents his new album Ciao mo...
-
BAM: Shantel
German producer and DJ Shantel cut his electro-teeth doing the obligatory club-circuit rounds in Frankfurt. After witnessing au...
-
BAM: Soap & Skin
Anja Plaschg's (aka Soap & Skin) gentle tinkling of piano keys casts a somewhat arresting spell over the listener, with the...
-
BAM: The Hives
Though forming in 1993, Swedish garage rockers The Hives didn't achieve breakthrough success until 2001 when the single Hate to...
-
BAM: Punch Drunk feat. Peverelist & Rsd
Bristol based dubstep leabel Punch Drunk sends two of its artists to this years BAM: Peverelist and Rd.



![[BAM] 2009 - Barcelona](http://static2.unlike.net/system/photos/0051/3804/BAM_Barcelona.jpg?1253464379)