Are cover bands relevant?
The wonderful thing about asking a single question of our core writing team is that I never know what I am going to get back and this month’s little poser certainly surprised me. Let me first elaborate...
View ArticleRocking The Daisies 2012 In Review
“Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do…” It’s no joke waking up to the greenhouse effect, smothered in lifeless people. Peeling back a beer clogged sleeping bag and my eyelids only to stare into the...
View ArticleZebra & Giraffe – The Wisest Ones 6/10
Let’s go balls deep and start with Little Black Book, the sixth track on The Wisest Ones, the new album by Zebra & Giraffe. It’s bang in the middle and the crux of this collection. It is also the...
View ArticleLark – Gong is Struck 5/10
Lark has brought their unique operatic, glitchy and Euro-tronic sound right back home for Gong Is Struck. Afro-centric sounds have been all the rage in the first world for the last couple of years....
View ArticleThe South African Avant-garde
“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world” This is a quote by C. S Lewis that I can’t seem...
View ArticleBlack Box Revelation – My Perception
Black Box Revelation comes from that school of bluesy rock ‘n roll revival that made 2006 to 2008 so great. You can tell: they have ‘black’ in their band name (Footnote: think Black Mountain, The Black...
View ArticleYoav – Blood Vine
Yoav incorporates his trademark strumming and loop pedal layers full of eastern influence and eurodance beats. However, the overall quality lacks emotion and seems… lonely. It’s an attempt at something...
View ArticleAnimal Collective – Centipede Hz
The tenth studio album from Animal Collective is a cerebral slap on the brain. You don’t even get a second to think as the compilation kicks off with Moonjock and the first single, Today’s...
View ArticleSangoma Vibes The Brother Moves On
“We play this story in South Africa. It’s what we sell to the rest of the world….” Meet The Brother. Do not try name him or remember him in one way. Rather listen and watch as he changes colour and...
View ArticleBelle Heir – Baroque is baque on the throne
“Style ‘n steez is back from the black hole of bath-salts-chic and the glamour of epic scale production in rock and pop is a really sweet treat this summer.” This existence is not about learning to...
View ArticleDisappear Here
“The music was loud and noisy and sound bounced off every wall. It was totally awesome. For a little bit afterwards I felt like everything was ringing…” Remember when you were a teenager and songs had...
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