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Berghain: The Secretive, Sex-Fueled World of Techno’s Coolest Club 0
- Opinion
- February 7, 2014
Berlin’s Berghain is famed for its groundbreaking sounds and X-rated sights, but the club is also a test case for how tourism and gentrification are threatening Europe’s party capital At 11:30 a.m. on a Sunday in January, the massive main dance floor at Berlin’s Berghain is full. Dino Sabatini, an Italian DJ with short dark
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Ian Watkins Sentenced to 35 Years in Jail 0
- Music, News, Opinion
- December 20, 2013
The two women who aided Watkins in child sex crimes are also found guilty An investigation uncovering “the most shocking and harrowing…evidence ever seen” – one involving the gruesome attempted rape of an infant just months old – has resulted in a 35-year jail sentence for Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins. The announcement came on December
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How The SA Hip Hop Awards Beat The Fails 0
- Opinion
- November 27, 2013
‘RMG calls the show “South Africa’s version of the BET Hip Hop Awards” but er, let’s not gets too ahead of ourselves now…’ Off the dome, there are mad reasons I could raise on why the second annual South African Hip Hop Awards [SAHHAs] sucked. Firstly, they started more than two hours late and secondly,
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Checking In With Van Coke Kartel 0
- Artists, News, Opinion
- November 25, 2013
It’s a beautiful spring day in the Northern Suburbs as we roll into Bellville Studios to get a sneak peak of Van Coke Kartel’s 5th studio album, Bloed, Sweet & Trane. The album isn’t even finished yet and already a music video has been completed to premiere online for their first single “Môregloed“, crammed with footage
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Ed Kowalczyk Opens Up About His Ugly Split With Live 0
- Artists, News, Opinion
- November 21, 2013
‘I have been completely dumbfounded by their activities and actions over the last four years,’ he says Back in the Nineties, Live frontman Ed Kowalczyk was a bald, often bare-chested heir apparent to Bono, commanding arena-sized sing-alongs to hit after hit from the band’s eight-million-selling smash, Throwing Copper. “Lightning Crashes,” “Selling the Drama,” “I Alone”: nearly
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Q&A: Billy Lunn From The Subways 0
- Events, Festival, Opinion
- November 20, 2013
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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