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St. Lucia — “September”
St. Lucia, a Brooklyn-based disco pop band, clashes his decades and seasons in “September,” the title track from his late 2012 EP. Fall is over, but the electrotrance...
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Summer Vibes with St. Lucia: The Man, Not The Island
Jean-Philip Grobler hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. He is classically trained. He's clean-cut. You're probably thinking: pretentious techno, Brian...
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South Africa’s Lira Forges Her American Dream
Lira is already a megastar in South Africa. Now, the queen of Afro-soul, R&B and positive-thinking is making her way to the States, armed with her first American release...
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Ho Ho Ho! It’s Free Spoek Mathambo!
If you didn't get what you wanted this holiday season, fear not! Our favorite Johannesburg Afro-futurist Spoek Mathambo is offering his latest album Future Sound of...
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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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SA’s Kwesta Chills With Kid-X In “Boom Shaka Laka” Video
Joined by Kid-X, up and coming Johannesburg MC Kwesta serves up his bi-lingual wordplay with side of glitz in his new video. It's packed cheeked to jowl with luxury cars...
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South Africa’s AKA Welcomes Your Jealousy
For Cape Town-born, Johannesburg-based MC AKA, the hate has been flowing for some time. Ever since he won two South African Music Awards for his album AltAr Ego last...
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The Groovy Afro-folk Vibes of South Africa’s Yolanda Zama
Name: Yolanda Zama
Where She's From: South Africa
Genre: Afro-folk soul (or Afro-coustic soul)
Most Similar: Miriam Makeba meets Les Nubians
When She...
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Jo’Burg’s Got a New Wordsmith, Kwesta
Name: Kwesta
Where He’s From: Johannesburg, SA
Genre: Hip-hop
Most Similar: P-Diddy, Rick Ross
When He Started: 2003
Sounds Like: Party and...
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South Africa’s Nakhane Touré Sounds Out Of Time
Name: Nakhane Touré
Where he's from: Johannesburg, South Africa
Genre: Post-Folk
When he started: 2012
Most like: Mirel Wagner, Dirty Projectors
Sounds...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Spoek Mathambo Speaks Of Change
Afro-futurist Spoek Mathambo took over NYC’s West Village with a raging storefront performance that left bystanders both stunned and wanting more. After the show, we sat...
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Story Time With Spoek Mathambo
In the first installment of our MTV Iggy Story Time series, Johannesburg's Spoek Mathambo explains how a call to an extended family member changed his entire production...
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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...