CHRIS CAPE: LIVE FROM THE POOL

by Mahala High Five Brigade / 24.02.2015 Chris Cape has effectively restored our faith in the concept of untapped talent. 'Roth and Roll' is a sweet rap song crafted upon the foundations of a classic Led Zeppelin

MAHALA #MIXTAPE

by Mahala High Five Brigade / 23.02.2015 We get a lot of weird, wonderful and utterly kak music submissions flowing into the Mahala orifice. So we've decided that instead of letting them slip through cracks, we'll chuck

MASHAYABHUQE VS THE Y GENERATION

by Sihle Mthembu / 11.02.2015 Blending everything from Kanye West to Shembe chants and Busi Mhlongo speeches – Mashayabhuqe KaMamba is a digital maskandi trap musician merging the past and the present into a cutting

POETS OF THE BAY

by Matt Vend / Images by Matt Vend / 10.02.2015 Matt Vend rambles through the open-mic nights of Oakland's bay area and meets the eccentric poets and musicians who haunt it's stages. It's no wonder Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg

LABAND THE MAN

by Sean O'Toole / 09.02.2015 Felix Laband, the ingénue Maritzburg metalhead turned dark magus of local leftfield electronics, is due to release his long-awaited new album. Titled Deaf Safari and scheduled for release in May,

EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED UP THE CREEK

by Hugh Upsher / 04.02.2015 The seminal review of everything that happened at Up The Creek music festival – dry humour, post-future illustrations and untainted honesty cut deep and true!

TOURE’S THAT KINDA COOL

by Tseliso Monaheng / 29.01.2015 Tseliso Monaheng speaks to award winning, Eastern Cape born musician Nakhane Touré about growing up, influences and authenticity, his new EP and the complexities of violence. Catch this Afro-folk-soul master

TROMPIES JIVA ON

by Sabelo Mkhabela / Images by Andiswa Mkosi / 27.01.2015 Trompies, the name is enough to make any South African 1990s kwaito lover nostalgic. The revered Soweto-bred kwaito group are back on the scene with their new album, Delicious. Sabelo

DREAD ON THE ROAD

by Matt Vend / 26.01.2015 Matt Vend joins a musical caravan with three indie bands on a tour traversing Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. But the roadtrip seems doomed from the start, as winter and

ROLLINS GETS ON WITH IT

by Karel Kopbeen / 22.01.2015 "I think that humans are the perfect and ultimate conflict creature. Too weak to live without a lot of drugs, healthcare and destruction to the earth and too cowardly to