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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Future is Spoek: Talking Stadium Music and the Sound of a New South Africa
It's not every day a booty-rapper gives a TED Talk, and not every Sub Pop signee who boasts a British day school pedigree and medical training. But South Africa native,...
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Spoek Mathambo — Father Creeper
I hate the horror genre and I’ve never watched a single scary movie to the end. So I’m the basically the worst person to review Spoek Mathambo’s second album Father...
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10 Unimaginable International Collaborations That Really Happened In 2011
Collaboration is a kind of magic. Two distinct creative worlds coexist for a moment, providing a glimpse into a new artistic possibilities. And how much cooler is it...
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Still Fractured, Still Fascinating
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...
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That’s Zef: The True Story Behind Die Antwoord’s Mysterious Style
“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...
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Who Is Cooler than Jack Parow?
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...
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Put Some Red On It by Spoek Mathambo
We've been feelin future bass artist Spoek Mathambo's latest EP Put Some Red On It ever since we first listened to it back in July. Today we hear it's up gratis over at...
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Cape Town’s Popskarr Rides New Wave In Style
At first listen Popskarr's simple new wave disco beats and candy, melancholy synth lines shove them into the sweet, harmless annals of INXS and Joy Division. But after...
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Spoek Mathambo Is Not Exotic
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...
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Spoek Mathambo @ Lincoln Center
On Sunday night in New York, with the hot sky threatening to pour down on Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park at any moment, a multi-culti crowd sporting big hair and...
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Bands We Like: South African Neo Soulstress Zaki Ibrahim
Neo soul singer Zaki Ibrahim's single "Ansomnia" will be included on the soundtrack for the Tyler Perry film adaptation of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide...
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Bands We Like: South Africa’s Freaky Futurist Spoek Mathambo
Spoek Mathambo is hard to pin down. He goes by a ton of different MC names--Sweat X, Playdoe and Moleke Mbembe to name a few--depending on who he's working with, and he...
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From a Meme to Signing With Interscope: How Die Antwoord Made It
When Die Antwoord posted their first video to YouTube last month, viewers weren't sure if this trio of Afrikaans rappers, with a penchant for dressing in neon, was some...