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Van Coke Kartel — “Dankie Ek Is Veilig Hier”
Touring in a rock band is inherently glamorous. It's even more glamorous when you are from a country like South Africa. Van Coke Kartel give us a fun visual tour diary...
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Jack Parow — “Merry X-mas”
Even the big-brimmed, South African zef MC Jack Parow is getting into the Christmas spirit. In “Merry Xmas,” we find him in the same places as always – in front of a...
slideshow
In Studio with Civil Twilight
South Africa's very own Civil Twilight lands in Studio Iggy for a brief respite from their fall 2012 tour. Let their atmospheric vibes serenade you into a quiet escape...
list
Top 10 Reasons Why We Are So, So Ready for 2013
2012, let's not even get into it. You are over and we are really fine with that. Barack Obama got re-elected and, hopefully, we'll never have to think about Mitt...
list
Tweak the Playlist: 8 Festive Tunes to Light Up Your Holiday…or Not
Words by Caitlin Tremblay.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for music. Everything is low-pressure, festive and fun. Some artists release albums full of...
blog
Afrikaans Is Dead
“Afrikaans is dead” – or so proclaims our favorite Afrikaans rapper, the inimitable Jack Parow. Afrikaans, of course, is the Dutch-derived language spoken widely in...
blog
Old People Get It On in Spoek Mathambo’s “Stuck Together” Video
Old people don't get nearly enough love. We all get there eventually, but there's remarkably little art out in the world that deals with aging. So kudos to Spoek...
blog
Gaga’s Monsters Won’t Be Happy with Die Antwoord’s “Fatty Boom Boom” Vid
If there was any doubt that South Africa's Die Antwoord had beef with Lady Gaga, the duo makes it crystal clear in their new video for "Fatty Boom Boom." The clip shows...
blog
Watch Little Dragon Rock Out in a Cape Town Township
The whole "live acoustic video shot in a cool location on nice DSRL camera" thing has been blowing up in music-land over the last few years, but few do it better than...
article
Enter the House of Noir, Petite Noir
Name: Petite Noir née: Yannick Iluga
Where He's From: Based in Capetown, South Africa, but originally from the Congo
Genre: Electronic-soul or even better,...
blog
Spoek Mathambo’s Drummer Unleashes Mixtape Full of African House
Fresh of the presses, South African scenester JakobSnake has just unleashed a new mixtape full of steaming-hot African house beats, as part of Okayafrica's killer...
interview
Civil Twilight’s Drummer Raps About Holy Weather And Cape Town’s Soul
It's not often the you interview the drummer of a band on their own. They often hang back and seem to deliberately skirt the spotlight. So, in the case of our interview...
article
Seismic Hip-Hop from Cape Town’s Ben Sharpa
Name: Ben Sharpa
Where he’s from: Cape Town, South Africa
Genre: Hip-Hop feat. electronic madness
Most Like: Death Grips, DELS
Sounds like: If an earthquake...
Music Video
Spoek Mathambo — “Let Them Talk”
South Africa’s Spoek Mathambo invites us to a party we definitely won’t be tardy to. His single “Let Them Talk” is a clever clash of “Hey Ya!” spontaneity and “Thriller”...
list
Happy Tequila Day! Musicians Tell Stories of Drunken Debauchery
With Cinco de Mayo around the corner, we know what you are thinking: “I’m so glad I get to celebrate the Battle of Puebla, in which an out-gunned Mexican army defeated a...
Live
Spoek Mathambo Pop-Up Show: An Afro-Futurist Goes Guerilla
His name means skeleton in Afrikaans, and he came to both terrify and delight. With his second album Father Creeper on the label that put out Nirvana, and an omnivorous...
Live
Spoek Mathambo — “Dog To Bone”
Like a dog to a bone, New Yorkers flocked to a West Village, NYC currywurst storefront last week to see where the Afrobeats were coming from. They soon discovered...
Live
Spoek Mathambo — “Let Them Talk”
Johannesburg’s rising star Spoek Mathambo surprised even his most familiar fans with the strange-but-choice blend of jazz, Afrobeat, and horror movie electronics on his...
Live
Spoek Mathambo — “Thunder”
“Thunder,” electronics, and rock ‘n roll breakdowns filled the New York City air last week during our Pop-Up Show for Spoek Mathambo. In celebration of Spoek’s Sup Pop...
Short
Spoek Mathambo Takes Over A NYC Street
Lights, Cameras, Currywurst! Residents got more than they bargained for when South African MC Spoek Mathambo invaded a Greenwich Village storefront with his eclectic...