South African Music Magazine
Call it Love – Anima Sola by Auriol Hays is an authentic, open diary of Auriol’s life experiences that reveal the honesty of all the emotional complexities of losing love. The new album chronicles a relationship from its beginnings to its tragic end. The songs are deeply personal and deal with emotional vulnerability hence the 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 »
“Sometimes you have to just stop, breath deep, and take it in.” A group of five comrades bound by their unique passion for good music, fun times and the inability to dance, together form Frankie Fire – the ear-twitchingly good sound of old school rock n roll. Born in early 2009, Frankie Fire have already Read More »
“People believe your music needs to sound a certain way to be defined as African, to be accepted in Africa. I intend to push that belief. I hope to change that.” – Samia A self-described “free spirit”, Samia, a young Nigerian singer-songwriter now based in South Africa, has an ambition to defy convention and free Read More »
The Mozambican Soul&Pop Sensation ISABEL NOVELLA Native Rhythms Productions’ first Pan-African offspring, Isabel Novella, (Mozambique) will be showcased on Sunday (May 27) to an exclusive audience at Native Rhythms Lounge alongside Kunle Ayo. Even before dropping her debut album, scheduled for release by Native Rhythms and Sony Music. She is already developing a demanding tour Read More »
Wuli Records Announces Lee DeWyze’s Album “What Once Was” Available For Pre-Sale Now; Album Out 2/14! “What Once Was”, the highly-anticipated Lee DeWyze’s album (set to be released worldwide on Feb 14th) is now available for pre-orders on Amazon “What Once Was” is an aural snapshot of Lee DeWyze from 2006-2010, before winning American Idol. Read More »
Lenny Kravitz – Black & White [2/5] On Black & White America, Kravitz explores race issues to the happy bubblegum disco-funk sounds of his childhood. While Kravitz (who wears his influences liberally on his sleeve) has always sounded very retro, he has never before immersed himself in the sounds of one era so singularly and Read More »
Every two months when I receive albums to review I discover completely unknown SA talent and I find it surprising that musicians like John Manuel come out of nowhere with an album of this calibre. And although I consider myself to have a finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the SA music scene, Read More »
With all the sadly over-produced and manufactured rock and pop music donning the airwaves and most big media channels I always find it amusing that when a bunch of heavyweights get together and do the exact opposite – as in revert to a raw, less commercial sound– the media lauds them for their creativity. This Read More »
Wow, wow and wow again. Farryl Purkiss is another one of those artists that I’ve heard lots about but never really paid too much attention to. Hey I like acoustic pop/rock as much as the next guy but it’s a genre that befalls too much blandness so it’s gotta offer something more to feature on Read More »
