South African Music Magazine
MODERN ROCK’S SUPER MASSIVE ICONS: STILL MAKING THE NEW? “We’ve never liked standing in the same place for too long. We wanted to make a fresh and uplifting album. I feel we’ve done that.” They’re UK’s biggest rock band since Queen and musically likened to them too. The reason is all in the name: Muse. Like Read More »
Cock-Rock is alive and well and living in The Darkness. If you’ve been wondering whether the Brit Glam-Rock revampers have changed their tune, a look at the sleeve design says it all. At times sounding like disciples of Queen, then prophets of AC/DC, sometimes even painting hints of The White Stripes (but always in the Read More »
“We don’t really want to be taken seriously…” In between taking bites out of their custard slices, the two David Spade lookalikes from Desmond & the Tutus, Shane and Craig Durrant, burst into mild fits of laughter when we discuss the LSD-like effects of eating toasted bacon and banana sandwiches before bedtime. In fact, it Read More »
Music. It’s a given that we will always be surrounded by it. No matter what the future holds or how slim one’s chances are of earning a decent income from music, every day another guitarist is born, another singer, another kid wanting to bang those drums. Music offers so much to so many, whether your Read More »
Ard Matthews will be releasing a solo album “First Offerings” in the winter of 2012. The first single off the album “Bolder” has just been submitted to national radio. ’Bolder’ was written and recorded entirely in Ard`s home studio at the end of 2011. In January Ard asked Mr Tumi Molekane to collaborate on the Read More »
Radiohead have made two new tracks available to hear online – scroll down and click below to listen to ‘The Daily Mail’ and ‘Staircase’. The tracks, which were recorded during the studio sessions for the band’s latest album ‘The King Of Limbs’, were posted on the band’s official YouTube account earlier today. They’re also available Read More »
“What is this article about? I’m not a legend.” Carlo Mombelli is not well known. He knows this better than those who do know him: “What is this article about? I’m not a legend.” But those who do know his music go quiet when someone mentions his name; they raise an eyebrow; their senses zoom in. Read More »
“Beginning with OK Computer, Radiohead were creating albums as sonic locations” Your cellphone was still too heavy and bulky and pointless to bother carrying out of the house. Grunge was blissfully unaware of its pending demise. Starry-eyed nerds were whispering about pornography that you can get on your dad’s computer. Life as everyone knew it was about to Read More »
