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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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SA-born Composer Buckley Featured on Scott Walker tribute Album 0
- News, Opinion
- November 20, 2013
‘Cover versions are for the most part daunting propositions, but doubly so when it is Scott Walker’ There’s a fascinating new collection out on Soundcloud under the name All Souls Music – Songs From Montague Terrace (A Tribute To Scott Walker), which features Sondre Lerche, Nightlands, The Entrance Band, and others tipping their hats to the
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The March of the Madiba-Dancing Chickens 0
- Events, Festival, Music, News, Opinion
- November 19, 2013
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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