Lindiwe Mngxitama / music / 2 days ago Excavating intricate resonance with Samuel Reinhard’s ‘Interior’ | a Präsens Editionen release
Denzel Nyathi / Art / 5 days ago In process and subjectivity // Katharien de Villier’s “sound-blindness” exhibition
Nkgopoleng Moloi / Discourse / 5 days ago Native Life in the Third Millennium // a conversation with Masande Ntshanga
Lee Nxumalo / music / 6 days ago ‘Somewhere Between Beauty and Magic’ is Joeboy’s crowning as an African pop star
Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive / 1 week ago The Nation that Janet Jackson built and racialised sexism’s destruction
Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive The Nation that Janet Jackson built and racialised sexism’s destruction As much breath, depth and comfort I tend to find in the spaces of (re)memory and remembering, they are also thickly populated with disappointment and leaking holes and cracks that seem to filter out—more often than not—the work and presence of Black femmes where H/history and artistic cultural production is concerned. We often hear people...
Lindiwe Mngxitama / Pop Archive Bubblegum disco era icon Condry Ziqubu’s ‘Gorilla Man’ | an Afrosynth release While Condry Ziqubu’s rise as a star of South Africa’s ‘bubblegum’ disco era may have appeared rapid, before his big break as a solo artist in 1983, Ziqubu had already been working professionally in the music industry for 15 years. A regular on the local soul scene since the late 1960s in groups such as...
Christopher McMichael / Pop Archive ‘Sing Backwards and Weep’, A brutally honest memoir of dysfunction and addiction American singer Mark Lanegan’s haunted baritone is a force of nature. His deep, gloomy voice sings of the darkest nights of the soul, the deepest heart-breaks and emotional bruises, broken dreams, desperate addiction and longing, failure, desolation and death. From his work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, right through to his...
Lindiwe Mngxitama and Kneo Mokgopa / Discourse Middle Centre: on V Mash, radical Black aesthetic production and those honoured only in death The text that is to follow is an exercise of sorts between writer Kneo Mokgopa and myself. An attempt at writing together from afar and from places of familiar difference, of Vinolia Mashego, who was affectionally known as V Mash to us and the rest of the nation. To write of her in remembrance and...