Route required by SanSan 2026, and Alternative Route
This Easter another edition of SanSan is celebrated in Benicàssim, with headliners such as Guitarricadelafuente, Rigoberta Bandini, La Casa Azul, of Monsters and Men or Love of Lesbian, before a break of several years that they will take. The schedules are published on their website, as well as season tickets and day tickets. This is the guide built by JENESAISPOP, with a dozen essentials and a series of alternatives if you have already seen LOL or Guitarrica several times lately.
Thursday 7:50 p.m.: Rufus T Firefly
Presentation of the essential 'All good things', which has just won the Ruido Award for best Spanish album of 2025, beating 'LUX' by Rosalía. There will be no shortage of their old hits. Almost at the same time, the pop-rock Leiva wave of Puño Dragón.
Alternative: Dragon Fist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryccT9nRkNU
Thursday 22.15: Of Monsters and Men
The authors of viral millionaires like 'Little Talks' or 'Dirty Paws', present a new album called 'All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade'. In this we find lost gems like 'Dream Team'. At 11:15 p.m., the most hooligan irreverence of La Elite, hilarious live.
Alternative: Caliphate 3/4, The Elite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNGCDYKNxmw
Thursday 23.35: Love of Lesbian
Love of Lesbian will perform a series of performances in our country this summer. Afterwards, they will go to Latin America, and after that, they have announced that they will take a long break. From 0.55, the Juventude revelation.
Alternative: The Elite, Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5sMgASAcHY
Thursday 1.00: León Benavente
Infallible live, León Benavente published their latest album in 2024. Surely their current repertoire still does not do without songs like 'La ribera', 'Ser brigada' or 'La canción del harm'. The night will end with their colleagues Perarnau IV (live) with Drama AV set (Zahara), with whom they have collaborated.
Alternative: Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJK9ZNbknGA
Friday 7:50 p.m.: Xoel López
Xoel López is about to publish a new album called 'Oniria Popular', from which they have already released 3 singles. 'Chinese Shadows' was "Song of the Day" and considered one of the best songs of his career by our audience.
Alternative: Go first to Leo Rizzo (18.45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsBNh3Ps6yI
Friday 22.15: Guitarricadelafuente
'Spanish Leather' was one of the best albums of 2025 and its show, sexual and daring in tune with all its imagery a couple of projects ago, will be one of the most talked about of the night. But also watch out for Las Petunias (10.23), which has just filled Madrid's Sala But weeks in advance.
Alternative: Petunias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3r8_FHGCw
Friday 23.35: Rigoberta Bandini
Another of the most ambitious shows of recent Spanish pop is 'Jesucrista Superstar', with a certain theatrical and choreographic vocation, whose festival version we do not yet know. The artist has just presented a single in Catalan, 'cançó de Primavera'.
Alternative: Anabel Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOeqxApTRoU
Friday 1.10: The Blue House
La Casa Azul has announced arenas in Madrid and Barcelona to present a new album that we already know will be called 'Underwater fauna and flora'. We already know several singles from him that will surely be played alongside classics like 'The Sexual Revolution'. These two synthetic pop concerts will compete with the underground pop-rock of Anabel Lee.
Alternative: Anabel Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgPQBFbN88
Saturday 7:15 p.m.: pablopablo
On the last day of the festival you will have to get up early to attend the presentation of 'Canciones en mi', which we recently talked about with Pablopablo in a fun - in our humble opinion - podcast. Nor should we lose sight of the revelation Gara Durán, who has just released a tremendous song, 'Mi loco cowboy'.
Alternative: Gara Durán
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntDNtV4cyrw
Saturday 8:20 p.m.: María Arnal
Speaking of people who have visited our podcast SOMETHING CHANGED… Maria Arnal. His new album 'AMA' has a place reserved among the best of 2026, a study on technology, the artistic possibilities of artificial intelligence, but with soul. The album is dedicated to Arnal's cousin, who died with HIV at only 15 years old.
Alternative: Sobrezero?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCFcZ46S3A
Saturday 11:40 p.m.: Biznaga
Among the most recommended garage punk shows in terms of national bands, Biznaga, who unfortunately are still current with their album about the difficulty of accessing housing in Spain. It will be a hidden gem as La MODA takes the main stage by storm. They have a new classic called 'I Don't Need You to Be Happy'.
Alternative: FASHION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75UzbKFL1YU
Saturday 0.55: Repion
Something similar will happen shortly after. Most of the public will be watching Sanguijuelas del Guadiana devastate, but Repion stopped being a well-kept secret a long time ago. As an unlikely mix of Dover, Ella Baila Sola, Tahures Zurdos, the Repion sisters have an enormous future.
Alternative: Guadiana leeches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGAGfVMBCNg
Saturday 2.30: Barry B
Some of us come to SanSan just to see on a big stage, as big as the song, if Barry B and Gara Durán sing 'El lago de mi pena' together. Joking aside, Barry B will be SanSan's last great performance, in a splendid moment after the release of 'Miscalibrated Childhood'.
Alternative: go to sleep, even if Alizzz plays at 3.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk7nBrWmTR0