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 […]
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 […]
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus was formed in Middleburg, Florida, in 2003 and has soared up both commercial charts (like our own 5FM Powermix) and on faith-based radio stations. They’ve penned songs for […]
Dave Matthews Band, officially the biggest touring act of the decade, finally play South Africa, and feature special guest star, Vusi Mahlasela. It’s all about making sh*t up on the fly, […]
Mike and the Mechanics skipped Cape Town when they played in South Africa in 1995. Now Mike Rutherford, who owns a house in Cape Town, rode the Cape Argus Cycle Tour […]
From time to time, this blog will run press releases when it seemed the news is just too damned good not to share. Like this one, which sees Dave Matthews […]
Jazz bassist and Card On Spoke founder Shane Cooper is the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist award winner for jazz. The win means he’s recorded a new jazz album and will […]
“Ragas of the Desert” sees Grammy-winning Indian slide guitarist Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt melding Indian classical and folk music, and collaborating with “Karoo Kitaar Blues” star Hannes Coetzee and his “slide-spoon” technique and SA Music […]
You’ve heard Trevor Jones before – been moved by his music – but you probably didn’t know it. The award-winning film composer, who was born in District Six, returns to Cape Town to […]
Jazz trumpeter, composer and flugelhorn player Marcus Wyatt returns from a residency in Basel to release his latest offering: an album honouring South African traditions and evidencing a rich thread of international […]
In 2006, Marcus Wyatt released “Language12“, an album that I’ve quipped has been my favourite SA jazz album of the year ever since. Now he launches a new album composed in Sophiatown and […]