Inside The machine: Music News

fetish mercury

‘we want the world, and we want it now’ THE FUTURE IS NOW The 27th April sees the rainbow nation turn 18. Music critic Greil Marcus described the youth as having a loan to the future. In SA too often we look to the past for inspiration. Post-modernism means not quoting your sources – sources that have Read More »

Brooklyn’s indie-scene sensation “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah” to tour SA

CYHSY Band pic

The first of four performances in the Live Performances Series from Adidas All Originals sees the revolutionary Indie band “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah” performing in South Africa for the first time. The band will play shows in both Cape Town and Joburg, supported by local artists in April 2012. CYHSY first came together in Read More »

Chris Letcher – Spectroscope 3/5

Spectroscope

Chris Letcher – perhaps best known to local audiences for his wonderful partnership with Matthew Van Der Want in the late Nineties, resulting in cult albums Low Riding and Bignity – has been stealthily building a songwriting career in London. It is telling that he is also involved in film composition (he scored Claire Angelique’s Read More »

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