South African Music Magazine
WACKEN METAL BATTLE: South Africa The MK Ondergrond TV show is overseeing the South African leg of the Wacken Metal Battle. What is Wacken you ask? Only one of the world’s most prestigious Metal festivals (hosted in Germany)! Across 20 April to 25 May, over 40 local bands will duke it out across 8 venues Read More »
Fela Kuti was born royalty, despite coming from a middle class family. One of those gifted spirits whose very presence teems with potency, Olufela Olusegun Oludan Ransome-Kuti (Fela to his friends and fans) was majestic, arresting the attention or desire of all who encountered him. He was also a rousing rebel, founding his own state Read More »
Gad is rad. He likes candy, Stanley Kubrick and he juggles so many bands and instruments, you’d be forgiven for thinking him an indie wizard. Or, more accurately, a whiz kid. From our brief babble, it’s clear why he thinks jezebel’s VPL stands for ‘Variable Personality Logistics’… Jezebel: Gad de Combes, I can’t keep up. Read More »
Greetings and salutations to all the beautiful boys and girls of 2013. It is the Year of the Black Snake and whether that means anything to you or not, it is undeniably badass. Especially for rock ‘n roll. The overwhelming stream of inky-Black bands releasing new and long-awaited albums this year has just begun the Read More »
Rodriguez is not a South African musician, and, until around 15 years ago, many of his fervent South African fans believed him to be dead. But he is, without doubt, a legend in South Africa. And we played a large part in the uniquely 20th century fairytale of his life: The mystery of a 60-something Read More »
“Style ‘n steez is back from the black hole of bath-salts-chic and the glamour of epic scale production in rock and pop is a really sweet treat this summer.” This existence is not about learning to accept reality but rather remembering your power to create it.” That’s a quote by Michael Cummings. He used to Read More »
”We were drunk on whisky and I kicked over a mic stand. The sound crew jumped on stage to deal with me and this led to a riot. Mark was so drunk he fell backwards off the drum stool…” Punk was alive and stomping in SA for around a decade, ‘tween the late Nineties and Read More »
AC/DC TURNS 40: BAND CELEBRATES WITH FIRST RELEASE IN 20 YEARS The headline reads like a parody. The reality only adds to the humour: AC/DC Live At River Plate is actually the legendary hard rock band’s first LIVE album in 20 years. Who could forget Black Ice? Although it’s hard to believe that their last Read More »
When Catherine Bush was thirteen years old she was already versed in the language of piano, and in the old pump organ kept in the shed of the family’s sprawling, East Wickham farm. She had already authored dozens of songs, some of which – including hit ‘The Man with the Child in his eyes’– would Read More »
In a country of socio-political opposites, factions and general cross-culture pig-headedness, ING is one Metal band that took the leap to thumb its nose at political correctness, saying it like they see it. With controversial songs hurling Molotov cocktails at everyone from China to Julius Malema, they are no strangers to controversy. We fired some Read More »
