Did you know that in Hellenistic astrology “the dog days” (named after Sirius, aka “The Dog Star”) were associated with drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck? Yep…
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”
Henry Rollins.
“This is as punk as it gets,” O Gajo says of picking up the traditional Alentejo guitar, viola campaniça, after years in rock bands.
Dizzi Dulcimer is the alter ego of Rebecca Cree hailing from South-west England. It takes its name from the hammered dulcimer, an instrument that lies halfway between a percussion and
A collaboration between Manchester’s Durutti Column and Portuguese writer and journalist Miguel Esteves Cardoso resulted in this 1983 instrumental.
It only takes a quick gaze at one of the painted portraits of King Sebastian and his ginger fresh-faced looks to know that messing with the Moors was a bad
Can a Sagres make things better when you don’t want to leave?
“Reflector” is a series by Atlas correspondent David Soares about songs by non-Portuguese bands inspired — in many cases, rather mysteriously — by the westernmost European nation. Angra is a heavy metal band
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