South African Music Magazine
See all your favourite local and international bands on the Main Stage, watch live stand up comedy at The Lemon Tree Theatre, taste fine wines, watch a short film in the Shnit Cinema and jam out to some of the country’s best EDM at the Main Stay Beach Bar and the Red Bull Live Stage. Get yourself and Read More »
For a rock band, the five Diego surfers that make Switchfoot are quite a moral bunch. A first listen to their distortion guitars and surf-punk chants, Christian-orientated wouldn’t be your first guess. A second might. But unlike most bands of that breed, they somehow manage to not irritate your soul with their personal beliefs. Rather, Read More »
World famous Grammy Award winning band Switchfoot, is all set to perform in SA for the first time in August and will be supported by two of South Africa’s best alternative bands; Gangs of Ballet in Johannesburg at Carnival City’s Big Top Arena on the 8th of August and The Rescu in Cape Town at Read More »
“Our live setup has really blossomed into quite a technical setup…” When Oppikoppi organisers announced that UK genre-phobic superstars Enter Shikari would be performing at this year’s festival, local audiences freaked out (in a good way) that the dusty moshpit would be turning into a sssnakepit come August. Vocalist Rou Reynolds took a few minutes Read More »
OppiKoppi Farm, West-Northam, Limpopo Province, 9-11 August 2012 This year’s Oppikoppi will cater for anything between 18 000 to 20 000 ‘to avoid those ugly scenes of grown-ups lying on their arms crying in front of the main entrance.’ It is strongly encouraged that you either buy tickets in advance or stay in the city; there will Read More »
We chat to the Gangs Of Ballet frontman, Brad Klymsmith ahead of their opening gig on the Switchfoot Vice Verses Sa Tour. He tells us about the origin of their interesting band name, their fast rise to fame and what they imagine it’s going to be like, playing to a crowd of thousands next month. Read More »
The Rescu is a proudly SA Rock band made up of members Mike Vaughan (Vocals and Bass), Graham Lowndes (Guitars) and Nic Smal (Drums). They will be one of the supporting bands on SWITCHFOOT Vice Verses SA TOUR, along with Gangs Of Ballet. Johann Smith chats to them ahead of this once in a lifetime gig. Read More »
The new South African Standard? Formidable, fetching and full-on awesome! What are the Wharfedale PRO Titan Speakers? The Titans are among the pick of the litter in Wharfedale Pro’s range of speakers and right at the top of their active range. They are certainly one of the more popular brands in South Africa and the Read More »
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival took place this year on the 30th and 31st of March. As we have come to expect from this musically decadent event, a slew of honorary Jazz musicians were billed to play. Among them were Dave Koz and Marcus Miller, as well as Lenny White, Donald Harrison and Ron Read More »
With our inaugural Eruption column in the previous issue of Muse Magazine kicking off on a local front, we felt it apt to head out to another less likely part of the world from where Metal is making itself heard. The Middle East. As an area particularly plagued by religious strife and violently conservative oppression, Read More »
