 | By all accounts, Red Bull SoundClash was a riot. Here we get Tumi from the Volume and Jeremy from the Dirty Skirts to give us the blow by blow of how it all went down at the Carlton Skyrink. ...read more |
Clash of the Titans
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 by Tumi Molekane & Jeremy de Tolly
Speed of Sound Explosion
Monday, August 24th, 2009 by Nathan Zeno
 | My photographer leans over to me and says, “This Band is so tight they aren’t even South African,” and is drowned out in a wave of synth rock out awesomeness. ...read more |
Flamingo Drive
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 by Righard Kapp
 | It gets said more than a few times during the course of the evening that The Wild Eyes gig at Discoteque feels like some sort of reunion, not of the band, but of it’s fans. ...read more |
Concrete Jangles
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 by Nathan Zeno
 | File under deeply sarcastic, post-ironic, shameless PR bashing. For those of us who make part of our living following the inane babble of “celebrities” on Twitter and Facebook, life can become a giant suckhole, a yawning chasm that swallows up any hope that we might have once had for the human race. Until something comes along that makes sifting through all the drivel, worthwhile. ...read more |
Come Home
Friday, August 21st, 2009 by Andy Davis| As you probably know already, the Mahala Surf Co. is a non-profit, philanthropic Mahala venture that collects and distributes surfing equipment to grass roots communities, with access to the ocean, around South Africa. Because waves are free and surfing is awesome. D’uh. ...read more |
Concert For A Friend
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 by Roger Young
 | What is not always obvious to the casual music fan is that the business is not just made up of musicians, roadies and managers. There are many who perform seemingly peripheral roles that in actual fact keep the spirit of the live music scene alive. ...read more |
Kapp a Tune
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 by Dylan Muhlenberg
 | Righard Kapp wants his old job back. He was retrenched, see, but now the company that he was working for is hiring again and Righard believes that the formality of a regular nine-to-five makes it easier to focus on the after-hour activities. The fact that Righard isn’t making a living off of his extra-curriculars (music and art) shouldn’t make you want to reach for the closest and tiniest violin. ...read more |
Love is a Mizer
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Lize Kay
 | Ever since they played our gig for free to raise funds and boards for the Mahala Surf Co., we’ve held a soft spot in our dark little hearts for the City Bowl Mizers. And it’s not often we are graced with the presence of Durban bands in Stellenbosch. So when I heard that the City Bowl Mizers would be playing ...read more |
Clash at the Skyrink
Monday, August 17th, 2009 by Andy Davis
 | Here’s a concept that works. Take one of South Africa’s best, most original musical exports in the form of Tumi and the Volume and match them up against one of South Africa’s most proficient and well-loved indie rock outfits, The Dirty Skirts. ...read more |
Bos Befok
Friday, August 14th, 2009
 | Oppikoppi means different things to different people. So we at Mahala got a whole bunch of musos and freaks to talk about how it went down for them at this year’s Smoorverlief Festival! ...read more |
