South African Music Magazine
Vibrations Radio set to bring Africa the vibe African music history is rich and diverse, with many singular branches that include Maskanda, Kwaito, kwela, Mbalax as well as jazz, soul, hip hop, R&B, pop and world music. It seems almost natural to assume that there would be a channel exclusively dedicated to its promotion, but Read More »
Dates Saturday 29 September – GrandWest Grand Arena; Saturday 6 October – Carnival City Big Top Arena Time 20h00 Cost R200 to R225 – Cape Town - R225 to R250 – Johannesburg Buy Tickets Rock group, Collective Soul, will be adding international flavour to this year’s HEINEKEN® Symphonic Rocks, with the announcement that frontman, Ed Roland, will Read More »
Having teamed up with producer Rick Rubin on A Thousand Suns, the relationship seemed to have yielded the desired results to have them return to him. With the previous album the band took a conscious approach to climb out of their comfort zone (whether they succeeded at that is debatable).The recent Dubstep hype seems to Read More »
Assembly Radio is starting out with 18 original shows hosted by a diverse and dynamic group of music loving personalities. To name a few, there’s Deff Eff with his Hip Hop perspective and Sideshow’s mutli-genre Mash Up. A Rock ‘n Rollercoaster with Dylan Culhane and some progressive indie on the Good Friday show with Dario Read More »
“I believe that what we are doing is at the forefront of South African music.” – Trenton Birch Trenton and Free Radical bill themselves as a hybrid fusion of Reggae, Hip-Hop and Electro. The quartet is made up of singer/songwriter – Trenton Birch, Thabo Mobo on Bass, guitarist Marco Wielander and well known Cape Town drummer, Read More »
Highly acclaimed new SA artist Toya Delazy will release her debut album through Sony Music Africa on 16 April, 2012. Due Drop includes seven tracks produced by one of most the creative production forces in the SA music industry, Jax Panik; and a further three songs produced by exciting Joburg based production duo Octave Couplet. Read More »
Three stages rocking out with rock, hip hop and some dance muzak thrown in for good measure is the platform for a hot new rock band from Jozi called Contradicting Clouds to launch their debut album. Headed up by sound engineer, Gerhard Van Der Merwe, the band has been busy in the SABC studios, where Read More »
Okay! So I’ve really never heard UJU’s music prior to this release. Never! Apparently they were called Sound Republic before. Led by one Ntuthu Ndlovu, poet and vocalist extraordinaire, this four-piece band produces a heady mix of African jazz and pop rock combined with spoken word, hip hop, afro-pop and traditional vox too. UJU is Read More »
“Regardless of style or genre, the signature sound will easily cut through your bands mix.” What is it? It’s big, it’s red and it’s mean. The Nord Wave synthesizer from Clavia, Sweden combines sampling technology with the powerful virtual analogue engine from their infamous Lead range to create a truly unique performance instrument. The dual patch system allows Read More »
“A rare Cape Town show by the imitable 6-piece Afro-funksters Kwani Experience is not to be missed!!!” IT’s all happening folks…GigTV have quietly been poking their nose into gigs ‘round and about Cape Town for the past year or two filming some of the best footage we’ve seen for live gigs. Muse Magazine is thrilled Read More »
