Bob Perfect / music

Support your local ‘Weed Dealer’

"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 tha...

Kopano Lichaba / music

The enigma that is your dad – D2Dyourdad

Going through lifetimes, and lifetimes our cosmos continues to develop anchors that ensure society with guidance, compassion and certitude t...

Themba Kriger / music

Muzi shares stories of black displacement on ‘Stimela SeGolide’

A conceptual EP, Muzi’s ‘Stimela SeGolide’, train of gold in Zulu, chronicles the disruption to black families that migration in search of w...

Kopano Lichaba / music

Behind Hip Naughtic Sean’s beats and new single

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 c...

Bob Perfect / music

Gyre Comes out of Quarantine with iindirhe

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 be...

Marcia Elizabeth / music

BUDX’s Kings of Music Concert – Budweiser Celebrates the best of Mzansi

On the 27th April 2019, Budweiser‘s BUDX platform debuted their first Kings of Music Concert. Taking over Braam this past Freedom Day the br...

Themba Kriger / music

ASAP Shembe & Fireman give the township narrative a voice

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 mov...

Christopher McMichael / music

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...

Bob Perfect / music

Hated Related’s ‘Depressive Repulsive’ blends 2000s Brit-indie with 90s Emo

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 Relat...

Themba Kriger / music

Omar Morto puts nostalgia and emotion into his music

Cape Town-based producer and co-founder of the label Capeclub, Andriques Petersen, better known as Omar Morto, started his musical journey j...

Kopano Lichaba / music

Hope, fighting doubt and rap with 11Eleven

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 everythi...

Themba Kriger / music

Get down to the dark, tribal sounds of DJ Lag’s “Switz”

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...