South African Music Magazine
Gearing up for 2013 Top: Andrew Davenport, Hennie van Halen Bottom: Jaco Snakehead Venter, Laudo Liebenberg (Photo: Jaco S Venter) aKING, one of South Africa’s top Rock acts, gearing up for a big year. The band is currently working hard cultivating a brand new album. They are approaching the process from a different angle and Read More »
aKING’s The Red Blooded Years were selling at such a rate that it seemed like a great idea to release a bumped up special edition of the album The Red Blooded Years in October 2012. Fans now benefit from some added goodies, like two exquisite new tracks – Jezebel and Wild Child, a re-mix of Read More »
If there’s one thing that suggests to me the relative illiteracy of Cape Town’s supposedly diverse cultures, it’s the lazy propensity of media and its consumers to turn anything more than a two-word title into an acronym. It’s digestible that way, yes, but take it from a writer and a thinker, this also divests it Read More »
The wonderful thing about asking a single question of our core writing team is that I never know what I am going to get back and this month’s little poser certainly surprised me. Let me first elaborate on what the full question was that I asked. Tribute bands (or Shows) vs. Cover bands. When is Read More »
The voice is the last thing you’d expect from Lucy Kruger and the first thing you remember. Shy lass? Cutlass! Maybe it’s her mane. Certainly it’s the only sign of wildness about the dulcet doe-eyes of this tall, quiet maiden until she lets loose in the most frighteningly beautiful way on stage. Lucy Kruger has Read More »
aKING will release The Red Blooded Years Special Edition album in August this year. The time has come for a re-print and this album will be released by aKING’s new distributor, Electromode. The Special Edition boasts two new tracks, a re-mix of All in the Wind by Johnny de Ridder, all the music videos from Read More »
“I bet you’ve never taken a left at THIS robot before” Two Door Cinema Club have more in common with fans in South Africa than a few happy-go-lucky, electric pop songs. Certainly the Irish indie artists never realised they HAD so many fans here in the first place, nor that most of them chew gum. Then Read More »
“I want to nestle in the lens that sees the ocean as an always-open door.” – The O.K. Machine Photo: Bruce Geils With a voice weaving deceptively simple melodies over plucking strings, Jonathan is his own karma incarnate, embodying lives, loves, losses and renewal. His haiku of harmoniesis found in Stepdog, Johannine and soon The O.K. Read More »
She lives on the wrong side of the fence, this wayward child, with a nest of hair and insolent eyes. She drags her speakers around the house like legs on a dead thing and shoots at will…with orange plastic bullets, admittedly. This little birdy is more trickster than bandit, believe me. On stage you’re forced Read More »
