Darnelle Thompson / music

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 / music

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...

Themba Kriger / music

Blinky Bill is Just Winging It

With the release of his first international album, Everyone’s Just Winging It and Other Fly Tales, Kenyan producer and performing artist Bli...

Christopher McMichael / music

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 ...

Bob Perfect / music

Omar Morto’s “My Body” is a Throwback to Swinging Hips

According to his own press kit, Omar Morto is having the best year of his career, and it’s easy to see why. While Omar has been instrumental...

Bob Perfect / music

Kaien Cruz gets Dangerous with her Latest Single

It’s weird, I don’t know if Bubblegum Club readers would already know who Kaien Cruz is. Like, you should, she’s been all over radio and TV,...

Darnelle Thompson / music

Furies // Three Witches and the ironies of connectedness

“We all worked together to create a mythical story within the imagined universe of ‘Furies’, inspired by the idea of ‘Thaumogenesis’: a proc...

Christopher McMichael / music

Lanii Clouds – Death Beats

“My music is death music. My beats have this dark, heavy atmosphere, but I don’t think that darkness is a negative thing”. Sipping a juic...

Themba Kriger / music

Thor Rixon – Exploring our impact on the world through dance music

Named after and created thanks to encouragement from his mother, Thor Rixon’s latest album “Michele” sees the Cape Town-based producer explo...

Darnelle Thompson / music

Dope Saint Jude // Chronicles of Resilience and Grrrl Power

The goal of feminism is to move toward gender equality and/or justice for people of all genders. To this end, feminism investigates and chal...

Christopher McMichael / music

Elheist – Stating the Fact

South London singer and rapper Elheist is on a mission. Specifically, she says she is “currently in the prime of the rebirth of my desired m...

Themba Kriger / music

The Lazarusman injects freestyle poetry into house music

Johannesburg-based spoken-word artist Lazarus Mathebula, better known by his stage name The Lazarusman, has been releasing music since 2010,...