Christopher McMichael

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The Rise of the Con Stars: Why Grifters are So Hot Right Now

Last year, the SABC released the documentary ‘To Catch A Con Star’ about local scam artist Tracy Morrison. For several decades, Morrison had...

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Filip Johnson- Glam Pop Skies

If you imagine international pop music as a landscape, you may well envision an idealised California - sunny skies, palm trees swaying in th...

Christopher McMichael / Thought

The Monster is Us

The enduring popularity of horror fiction is because the world is an utterly terrifying place. We live on a planet rushing towards an apocal...

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Riky Rick unleashes Cotton Fest

SA rapper Riky Rick is one of the hottest artists in the local game right now. In his music, the KwaMashu born MC has the ability to effortl...

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Eyedress Hates The Police

Eyedress, the recording moniker of Filipino musician Idris Vicuña, is making whacked out music perfect for a disturbing world. His albums Ma...

Christopher McMichael / art&culture

Applied Ballardianism: Memoirs from a Parallel Universe by Simon Sellars

In 2009, a news item in the Hollywood Reporter announced that a film adaptation of the late British writer’s J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild, st...

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Deadly Bites Sink Their Teeth In

When I hear the name Deadly Bites, I imagine a lurid, D-grade exploitation movie from the 1970s or 1980s. It could be an Italian Zombie film...

Christopher McMichael / Thought

“Die Lit” – SoundCloud Rap and Boring Nihilism

Man, every year, everybody's like: "Yeah, these kids out here, they're a new breed. I ain't never seen nothing like this before. This the en...

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The Temple- Building Musical Monuments

When I first opened the link to The Temple’s new EP Lusaka, I was blown away by the effervescence of their music. While the release harkened...

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From Cybergothic to Acid Communism- ‘K-Punk’ by Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher, the British writer and theorist who tragically passed away last year, was probably our greatest diagnostician of this boring dy...

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Jan Wagner explores the classical and the electronic

Contemporary German music has gained an international reputation for experimentation and elegant precision. In the 1970s, Krautrock artists ...

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Petite Noir- Black House Rising

“With this album, I’m saying ‘welcome to my house’". On call from London, Congolese born, SA raised Yannick Ilunga is describing the meaning...