Foreign Beggars: Grime headliners for ‘Synergy’
Grime, dubstep and UK hip hop DJ Nonames (Foreign Beggars) plays a headline DJ set on the the Red Bull Live stage at Synergy2013 in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Plus sends props […]
Category Archives: Hip hop / Rap
Archive 2010 – Chuck D: Public Enemy live in SA
In 2010, Public Enemy finally came to South Africa. Here’s Chuck D on conscious lyrics, trouble in the record industry, Sharpeville – and hanging with Flavor Flav for over two […]
PR: Snoop Lion meets the (real) Zulu Nation
Snoop Lion (tafka Snoop Dogg) has been welcome by the Zulu royal family with traditional leopard-skin headgear by Prince Simengaye Zulu, descendant of the mighty King Shaka Zulu, on his tour for the “MTV Africa […]
Jill Scott: Cape Town, new album and a “blush fest”
You don’t really listen to Jill Scott during a live show – you feel it. With an on-stage back-line that included drums, bass, keyboards, trombone, trumpet and guitar, as well as her […]
Cape Town International Jazz Festival: 2013 final programme
Jack DeJohnette reprising Coltrane; Buena Vista Social Club Orquestra; Jean-Luc Ponty; Brand New Heavies; South African geniuses like drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo, pianist Afrika Mkhize, guitarist Reza Khota, finally Ibrahim Khalil Shihab and, with sadness, the tribute to the late Victor […]
Bridges for Music: Luciano in Soweto and Langa
Bridges For Music does it again. After Skrillex and Richie Hawtin, the electronic music outreach group has internationally acclaimed DJ, producer and label boss Luciano (Cadenza, Ibiza Vagabundos) doing workshops and gigs in Soweto (26 March) and Langa (27 March). This article […]
Archive’09: Rattex vs Filewile – Khayeltisha ‘spaza kaltsha’ goes Swiss
Back in 2009, Khayelitsha rapper Rattex adds some ‘Spaza Kaltsha’ to the Swiss duo Filewile’s globe-spanning blend of dub, electronica, hip-hop and street-edge. The collaboration was made possible courtesy ProHelvetia and Pioneer […]
Toya Delazy: From Princess Magogo to MySpace
Toya Delazy, born Latoya Buthelezi in Mahlabathini near uLundi, KwaZulu-Natal, in 1990, and the great-granddaughter of Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu, the daughter of the Zulu king Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo who broke the […]
Erik Truffaz: French jazz legend for Joy of Jazz and Cape Town
French trumpet legend Erik Truffaz has danced his notes across multiple genres from jazz to hip hop and ‘world music’. He brings his quartet to Cape Town for a single […]
Jozi, SA’s hottest hip hop crew, crunk it!
For rapper Da Les and soulful vocalist Ish of ‘crunk’ group Jozi, African awards, presidential inaugurations and new albums are the order of the day. This column originally appeared in […]
Evan Milton: Words on music (and miscellany) 