“It all started at 17 Just trying to fit in the scene All my friends are gone I’m still trying to be someone” I’ve always thought that being in a band must be addictive. Once the bug bites, it seems impossible for musicians to stop getting together to try and make some magic together. Only…
Going through lifetimes, and lifetimes our cosmos continues to develop anchors that ensure society with guidance, compassion and certitude to lead us into the compendium of generations that have past and are yet to come. Describing himself as an enigma, D2Dyourdad might just be one of the anchors of this generation as he composes his…
A conceptual EP, Muzi’s ‘Stimela SeGolide’, train of gold in Zulu, chronicles the disruption to black families that migration in search of work causes. “It’s a play of people having to take the train to go and make money. It’s paying homage to Hugh Masekela and the song Stimela that he made ‘cause it was…
Did you know you can use hypnosis to raise your vibration? With that being said what does Hip Naughtic Sean raise with his vibrations? You could say the energy at dusty bashes in Alex and other townships, festivals like Back to the City, or maybe the knock of his 808s. What I’m certain of is…
It’s intriguing when someone remakes their own song. Why do they want to retread that old ground? Is there a memory of a bread crumb left behind that could lead down a new path? Or is there someone new to share the journey and re-explore with? With Gyre’s remake of “Quarantine” which features iindirhe, it’s…
On the 27th April 2019, Budweiser‘s BUDX platform debuted their first Kings of Music Concert. Taking over Braam this past Freedom Day the brand delivered a matchless BUDX music and fashion experience. Shine studios put on a different face for the event with the industrial space being transformed into a fashion hub meets night club…
Long-time friends and collaborators ASAP Shembe and Fireman_r5 met more than 10 years ago in Vosloorus in the East Rand when ASAP Shembe moved there in 2006 and they both connected over a shared loved of hip hop and creating music. Both were surrounded by music at a young age, in ASAP Shembe’s case, it…
If you imagine international pop music as a landscape, you may well envision an idealised California – sunny skies, palm trees swaying in the wind, the warm glow of Coachella at night. What you may not immediately picture is Sweden, a country which for long stretches of the year is buried under the kind of…
Ever since their ‘Caffiene Diet’ EP in 2016, I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Durban’s Brit-indie inspired garage punk band, Hated Related. You see, I really fucking enjoy bands like The Cribs and The Libertines and it was very clear that so did Hated Related. With their latest EP, ‘Depressive Repulsive’, that’s…
Cape Town-based producer and co-founder of the label Capeclub, Andriques Petersen, better known as Omar Morto, started his musical journey jamming with friends which grew into a band. Thanks to different tastes and ideas in the group, as well as an increasing interest in dance music-influenced metalcore bands such as Enter Shikari, Attack Attack! and…
The hustle and bustle that is attached to me as I walk in the concrete port of Johannesburg known as ‘em tee en’ with the advent of everything being sold, anything you can get your hands on you can find legal or illegal. After passing the performance space on my left gathered with numerous amounts…
Having released his BBC Radio 1 Essential mix in January, stalwart of the gqom scene, DJ Lag kicked the year off with a bang. The pioneering producer and DJ from Clermont in KwaZulu-Natal has gone from strength to strength with increased international and local interest in his driving gqom sound. Currently he is preparing for…
