Seventeen years after the end of apartheid and South Africa is a wild place to be. It has modern booming cities and endless shantytowns. It has strong traditional cultures, and jet-setting generation of tech-savvy, fashion-forward young people making...
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South Africa jazz house group Goldfish took their animated video style to a whole new level on "We Come Together." Now you'll feel like you're playing a nautical, Star Wars video game. And it's 1985.
South Africa's prince of Township Tech, poster child for Afro-futurist electropop, husband of Sweden's Gnucci Banana, a one-man genre-blender who paints with music and composes with colors...Spoek Mathambo is simply one of the most exciting young...
In his long bill snapback and porno moustache, “The Pirate of the Caravan Park” is getting ready for big things. Jack Parow is a Cape Town rapper who, along with frequent collaborators Die Antwoord, is shaking up the South African internet with the...
At a time when just about every new band dabbles in electro-this or synth-that, Taxi Violence is a blast of pure classic rock from Cape Town, South Africa. Muscular guitars, plaintive-yet-growling vocals, drumstick-splintering backbeat -- what you hear...
No one on the corner has swagger like Jack Parow, South African rapper who drops braggadocios knowledge in “Cooler as Ekke” – “cooler than me.” If it weren’t for Jack’s awesome long bill snapback and his bevy of South African beauties, we’d be pretty...
Keep your translator handy! Jack Parow (and his signature snapback) is back with Afrikaan rap in “Byellville.” If you didn’t think he was cool before, the platinum-selling lyricist brags that he’s so next level, his “groupies has groupies.” Okay, sir....
Jack Parow delivers gold-gilded rhymes (and boxing shorts) with "Dans Dans Dans." We want to "f**ken, f**ken dans" too -- the hypnotic synth and Francois van Coke's powerful voice is too hard to resist.
South Africa’s Jack Parow shows his serious side in “Tussen Stasies,” or “between stations.” Featuring a cameo from Die Heuwels Fantasties (kind of like SA’s Postal Service), Parow displays the versatility that has earned him international recognition.
Die Heuwels Fantasties, known as “the happy hollows” in layman’s terms, are complete show offs. The South African electronic band and graphic designers kept the “Noorderlig” mv under wraps for eight months. The lifelike sci-fi imagery and attention to...
South Africa’s Die Heuwels Fantasties has a knack for innovative music videos, and “Hyg Duiwel” is another on that list. Levitation, writing bodies, and slow-mo running probably sound a Halloween film,...
aKING knows where the wild things are. In “The Runaround,” the South African melodic rock band stimulates our imagination with dreamy animated images and an even dreamier sound.
“Crocs are zef. Flat-tops are zef. Wearing a cowboy hat to the club, that’s quite zef,” says Chopper Charlie, a South African blogger and DJ, while munching on a pizza at a seaside Cape Town café. “Ed...
If you closed your eyes and woke up in The Assembly on a Saturday night, you would be hard pressed to figure out where in the world you’d landed. From the artfully dressed white kids in skinny jeans...
For those who imagine South Africa’s music scene to be all tinkly guitar pop and Ladysmith Black Mambazzo: guess again. In South Africa, there’s one sound that blasts loudest from township stereo systems...
