Bob Perfect / 2 months ago

Ricky Tyler’s Deja Vu is a Painful yet Cathartic Look at Loss

The first time I heard Ricky Tyler was when I played him on my radio show on DYR 105.1. I was looking for a song to play after Beyonce and J...

Marcia Elizabeth / 2 months ago

PURE turns spoken language into gold with the release of the ‘Vocal Alchemy’ EP

“At an early age, I learned that what was said was not always what was meant, and this became my first lesson in the power of words. I also ...

Themba Kriger / 2 months ago

Keabruh&Jay.B want to normalise queer culture

Both hailing from Vosloorus in the East Rand, it was their mutual love of poetry that brought Keabruh and Jay.B together. Now residing in Jo...

Christopher McMichael / 2 months ago

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...

Themba Kriger / 3 months ago

The Other Records stock what their name implies

The Other Records started as a small section in a clothing store a year ago and has since morphed into a physical space. Featuring a selecti...

Bob Perfect / 3 months ago

dJinns Make Magical Music

Listening to dJinns, an unassumingly dope two-piece musical project from Jozi, I genuinely struggle with the fact that they’re 18. There’s a...

Christopher McMichael / 3 months ago

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...

Bob Perfect / 3 months ago

Francis Jay Makes Music to Break Up to

Summer is on its way, which usually means sunshine and good times, but for some of you, it’ll mean heartbreak as your significant other deci...

Themba Kriger / 3 months ago

Rapper RRA confronts the darkness within

“I spent a lot of time by myself so I never really engaged in what was happening” explains RRA of his childhood in Rustenburg. While his old...

Marcia Elizabeth / 4 months ago

The unsettling ambience of Haich’s ‘Conversations’

LCD displays building inch by inch of pixelated data. Grotesque, mutant like clay sculptures basking in red tones open up a peculiar night t...

Darnelle Thompson / 4 months ago

PsychoLution // Hip Hop and the Perfect College Semester Kit

As noted in a discussion on the cultural value of Hip Hop on Oxford University’s Arts Blog, Hip hop as a musical and global cultural form fo...

Bob Perfect / 4 months ago

The Werehouse is a Home for Durban’s Creative Youth

Just over a year ago, a new home for music and creativity opened it’s massive wooden sliding door in Durban’s Rivertown precinct. While most...