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In the past few months, "zouk bass" has been batted around as a new, hot subgenre of global bass. But momentarily side-stepping the dizzying conversations of how global...

Name: Gazelle
Where He's From: South Africa
When He Got Started: 2012
For Fans Of: Freshlyground, Santigold
Sounds Like: Mellow funk-infused South African...
Back in the day when snail mail was a thing (remember that?) The U.S. Postal service ran a service where you could apply to get a pen pal from another country. While the...
Name: OOFJ (Katherine Mills Rymer and Jenno Bjørnkjær)
Where They’re From: Demark and South Africa
When They Started: 2010
For Fans of: Portishead, Nico, David...

Jean-Philip Grobler hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. He is classically trained. He's clean-cut. You're probably thinking: pretentious techno, Brian...

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...

Words and Interview by Priscilla Djirackor
For Africans, music from the Democratic Republic of Congo has always been a reference, the crème de la crème of music. In a...
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...

Laura Mvula is a major standout in the UK's latest swarm of soulful songstresses. Armed with her haunting, minimal, yet quite complicated single "She," Mvula is getting...
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...

Name: Fruits & Veggies
Where They're From: Durban, South Africa
Genre: afro-punk, reggae, ska
Most Similar: early No Doubt, Gogol Bordello
Sounds Like: You...

Name: Moroka
Where He's From: London & South Africa
Genre: Kwaito, global bass
Most Similar: Diplo, Spoek Mathambo
Sounds Like: A
While Mad Decent...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Name: Nakhane Touré
Where he's from: Johannesburg, South Africa
Genre: Post-Folk
When he started: 2012
Most like: Mirel Wagner, Dirty Projectors
Sounds...

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...
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...