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  • Sound Checking In With Bruce Springsteen At Bellville Velodrome

    Sound Checking In With Bruce Springsteen At Bellville Velodrome0

    Video: ‘I got a nice letter from some South African musicians – it was sort of the tipping point’ We’re hanging at the media marquee tent minutes before Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street’s sound check at the Bellville Velodrome. The Boss doesn’t do the usual press con shtick. Instead, his people have invited a select

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  • Q&A: Billy Lunn From The Subways

    Q&A: Billy Lunn From The Subways0

    Stand a chance to win tickets to see the show in Johannesburg or in Cape Town The Fun Lovin’ Criminals (Fast And Frank DJ set) and The Subways are set to perform in Johannesburg and Cape Town at the CuervoLution party this weekend. [Scroll down for ticket and venue details.] To mark UK rockers The Subways’ performances, Rolling

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  • The March of the Madiba-Dancing Chickens

    The March of the Madiba-Dancing Chickens0

    Watching everyone and their dog “do the Madiba-dance” feels a bit like being on some pretty powerful hallucinogenic mango – flavoured Kool-Aid. At the public toilets at De Waal Park, there is a handwritten sign begging “Please!!! No drugs in the toilets.” It is unclear whether this is an appeal to our better collective judgment,

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  • Arno Carstens To Headline Heather Waters Benefit-Gala

    Arno Carstens To Headline Heather Waters Benefit-Gala0

    British-born folk songstress and humanitarian diagnosed with acute peripheral neuropathy Arno Carstens recently pulled in to join the Heather Waters Benefit-Gala line-up together with the Delta-Four band, saxophonists Gerald and Mari and Heather Waters herself. The event is scheduled to take place at Hudson’s on Vredenheim Wine Estate, near Spier on the 30th of August. The benefit concert

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  • Rolling Stone SA’s Podcast – Ep 10. ANDRA at STRAB 2013

    Rolling Stone SA’s Podcast – Ep 10. ANDRA at STRAB 20130

    The RS podcast travelled all the way to Ponta Malongane in Mozambique to capture this exclusive interview and two beautiful acoustic performances by the Namibian-born songstress, ANDRA. She received a lot of critical acclaim back in 2007 for her debut album Secrets and Skeletons… Notes from a Desert Café. Amongst her busy tour-schedules in South-Africa, she’s

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  • RAMfest Cancels Bloem Because of Religious Pressure Groups

    RAMfest Cancels Bloem Because of Religious Pressure Groups0

    ‘You’ll need to travel to JHB’ The organisers of RAMfest posted this message on their Facebook fan page earlier today: “Due to lack of suitable venues and venues under pressure from extremist religious groups we have decided to cancel the BLOEM leg of the RAMfest Tour. Sorry guys, you’ll need to travel to JHB.” An

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