Blues guitarist Dan Patlansky packed Kirstenbosch in Cape Town with 3000 people to launch his new album, 20 Stones. He opened with the gentle, instrumental title track off the new album while sitting alone, acoustic guitar in hand, on a barstool. When he reached for his 50 year-old cherry red Fender Strat, the crowd got restless
READ MOREArt, darkness and blurred lines: hanging in Spain with the smartest indie-rock star of her generation It’s thunderstorming in Barcelona, so Annie Clark – who performs as St. Vincent and who “really, really, really” wants to go to the beach – is forced to make other plans. “You visit a lot of museums and aquariums
READ MORETree63’s front man puts the whole Christian rock ‘fiasco’ to bed to concentrate on going solo John Ellis just can’t win. The day that I meet the Tree63 frontman and solo artist he’s trying to get his head around the lambasting he got from fans during an interview with Gareth Cliff on 5FM. What was
READ MOREDrummer Ryan Rabin on his South African roots, the Spice Girls and their breakthrough album, ‘Spreading Rumours’ When he was 18, Grouplove’s Ryan Rabin had a South African flag tattooed on his right wrist. The flashes of red, blue, green, black and gold are visible at moments in the digitally released documentary I’m With You, named
READ MOREThree years ago, Lana Del Rey seemed to hatch into existence as a fully formed provocateur: She has introduced previously untasted flavors to pop music (her slow, torchy genre of choice might best be described as “Calvin Klein Eternity commercial”) and shaped herself into as crafty a video star as Lady Gaga, making her racy,
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