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- 2009 in South African Music
- OK so 2010 is here and already there are some great albums on the horizon. Hope you all have a great New Year. Anyway so I am going to use my first few posts of the new decade to look back. Back at the year of 2009 in South African music, back at what Read More...
- A roundup of the weekend's gigs
- What a great weekend of music. Well it was a bit more than that actually. It started on Wednesday evening with that Lister rooftop gig, I can't remember the name, something about the sky. Anyway I saw part of Us Kids Know's set, which was great and then Read More...
- Ramon Galvan – Outer Tumbolia
- It has been a while since the South African music scene has heard from Ramon Galvan, the former vocalist and keyboard player from the avant-rock band Blackmilk. Great news then, that he has a debut solo album out on Righard Kapp’s Jaunted Haunted Press Read More...
- Splintering Jewel: Some Buckfever Undergound related albums
- In 2005 Cape Town's sonic explorer and guitarist extraordinaire Righard Kapp joined the ranks of the Mother City's premier improvisational outfit, The Buckfever Underground. Although Buckfever's live shows took on a whole new edge with Kapp's sublime Read More...
- Death Disco: The KOOS reissues
- A place where poetry and theatre meets noise. That was the original vision for South Africa's long-lost post-punk band KOOS, formed in 1986 by conceptual artist Neil Goedhals and actor Marcel van Heerden. They were joined in their quest by actors Gys Read More...
- The Pavement Special Issue 2 Launch Party
- 6 bands + 1 CD + 15 cutting edge songs = R80 The Pavement Special is back! Yes you heard right, South Africa’s very own totally independent music magazine has returned with another solid dose of independent music for your listening pleasure. While TPS Read More...
- Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour
- Cape Town’s Ella Joyce Buckley has turned South African folk music on its head with her debut album. Watching Ella Joyce Buckley perform her sweet, delicate songs is a window on to a naive, childlike, enchanted forest, a hybrid of CS Lewis’s The Chronicles Read More...
- Oppikoppi and other cool gigs for next week!
- So next weekend is Oppikoppi's Not Quite Easter Festival people. Here is the line-up for those interested. FRIDAY 25 APRIL 15:00 TBC 16:00 The Slickers 17:00 Havoc Vultures 18:00 Trike 19:00 Straatligkinders 20:00 Cassette 21:00 Sarah Bettens (BE) 22:00 Read More...
- Imagination Explosions: The Unyazi 2 Festival
- As Celine Dion jets out of South Africa with a small fortune in her bank account, a horde of noise terrorists are jetting into the country to share their latest works in experimental sound. The stage is the Unyazi 2 Festival, a touring roster of extreme Read More...
- 2007: A year in SA Music
- Well this year has to go down as one of the greatest years in South African music. We have seen two great bands in the BLK JKS and Sweat X releases EPs and sign with international labels that tracked them down through Myspace. We have seen young bucks Read More...
- Righard Kapp, Ampersand, Ella Joyce Buckley & Deep Fried Man live @ Back 2 Basix
- One Minute Trolley Dash (OMTD) founder and Buckfever Undergound guitarist Righard Kapp arrived from the Cape last week for a bunch of shows before Oppikoppi and brought along some friends. Well one friend to be precise, but Ella Joyce Buckley is a talent Read More...
- Gig of the weekend - Sat 4th of Aug @ Back 2 Basix
- OK I don't normally just post press releases but this is my gig of the weekend for Joburg and it says it all. On Saturday 4 August, Back2Basix (c/o Kingsway & Lancaster Rd, Westdene , JHB) hosts a mammoth quadruple bill of leftfield acoustic and singer/songwriter Read More...
- Foxy Digitalis, can I have an Amen?
- I just spent the last hour browsing this really cool music e-zine called Foxy Digitalis This guy called Brad Rose started it up in 2003, after it originally was a print zine that lasted four editions. It is full with great features, reviews, podcasts Read More...
- Fred De Vries interviews Jaxon Rice
- Writer Fred De Vries has a great interview with Jaxon Rice of the Diesel Whores up on his blog, go check it out here There is also an interview with Rian Malan here and one with Righard Kapp of One Minute Trolley Dash - here Read More...
- Suddenly everything changed: A brief history of OMTD
- Founded in 2005 as an avenue for Righard Kapp and his illustrious colleagues in noise, One Minute Trolley Dash (OMTD) is now mutating into a bona fide independent label. The change has been driven by OMTD’s fourth release, a debut album from Cape Town’s Read More...
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