Stop and Listen

by Matt Vend / 16.04.2014 On any given day, you can find buskers crooning through the Durban streets, strumming in the back alleys downtown, or serenading the high-steppers uptown. From Morningside to Dalton Hostel, the

Forward The Sword

by Rob Cockroft / 09.04.2014 Garlic Brown has been blessing the Cape Town hip hop scene with lyrical sorcery and spellbinding stage performances since back in the early 2000s. Known to older heads as Judah

Lesotho Hip Hop: From The Ground Up [Part II]

by Tseliso Monaheng / 08.04.2014 “Right now, it’s at the point where it’s being overrated; people are assuming to be where they aren’t," explains Papa Zee. "This [moment] should be perceived to be the beginning

Changeling At The Pit

by Hugh Upsher / 08.04.2014 Changeling are of the rare, slumped over, hair-instead-of-a-face, psych-noise rock band variety. They announce their presence by pounding out a gloriously noisy six minute instrumental. Even though they are set

Glimpses of a Jazz Fest

by Tseliso Monaheng / 04.04.2014 Tseliso Monaheng floats through Cape Town's Jazz Fest, clutching his camera and soaking in the good vibrations...

March of The Gods

by Jon Monsoon / 04.04.2014 Despite a brittle association to blues music, heavy metal is very much a white man’s gig. And yet, not exclusively so. For just as you’re sure to find a pasty

Hallelujah Moments | Cape Town Jazz Fest

by Lindokuhle Nkosi / Images by Iggy Mokone & Tseliso Monaheng / 03.04.2014 He moves across the stage as if possessed, dressed in black, his guitar an extension of himself. The crowd is on their feet. They’re screaming and crying. Whistling and

Lesotho Hip Hop: From The Ground Up [Part I]

by Tseliso Monaheng / 02.04.2014 In '99, nothing much was happening in Maseru. Well, nothing that a 12-year-old interested in kwaito music could partake in. All the musicians who performed in Maseru during that time

Who’s Afraid Of The Dark?

by Eliza Crow Day / Images by Dirk Steenkamp / 02.04.2014 I spoke to The Ghost Quotes about evil on a balcony in Cape Town while the first cold and heavy rains of autumn fell. I heard one of their songs,

The Soil Acapellas

by Tseliso Monaheng / 31.03.2014 The Soil, an acapella group from Jozi, recently made an appearance at Skyroomlive in Jozi. Tseliso Monaheng captured the smokey atmosphere in black and white...