Watch B-Boys Explore Durban

So you think you can dance?     Lucid Media put together this short little vid of local B-boys, Preston Kyd and Tarquin Samuels, getting down all over the city. It’s a simple but stunning video with lots of impressive shots of even more impressive dance moves. Check it out below and get jelly. (For [...]

Download Black Math’s Debut EP Right Now

It can never compare to seeing them live but here’s some recorded tracks for when you want to rock the fuck out  in your own time.   Uh, so this is awkward. Been listening to this EP on repeat for like two weeks and thought we’d shared it here already but we didn’t. Turns out [...]

Future Sound of Mzansi: Okmalumkoolkat

The comprehensive collection of the future mfana’s verses selected by Spoek Mathambo.   Until Okmalumkoolkat releases an album, this mix by Spoek Mathambo is your comprehensive fix of the future mfana. It’s a mix to promote Spoek’s documentary, Future Sound of Mzansi, which will be showing that this year’s DIFF, and it features a wide [...]

Durban Voted SA’s Sexiest City

Who cares?   Honestly, who the fuck cares? They asked 2700 people and some djs (cause djs are “in”) some questions about sex and apparently, according to their minuscule sample size, “the banana boys are having sex 2.3 times a week”.  Somehow, that turns into the above headline. That headlines gets spread around on various [...]

Skabanga Tape Vol 2

Fresh threads, visuals and beats from the Skabanga crew.     Yoh, but the Skabanga crew are on that mad hustle atm. Glamour Killface has basically been doing every kief flyer you see at the moment, they’ve put out a fresh new winter range of clothing (which you can see below) and the whole team [...]

Future Sound of Mzansi – Qgom Revolution

You haven’t heard of Qgom cause you live in the burbs and listen to ECR. Get acquainted…   As we’ve told you repeatedly, Spoek Mathambo has teamed up with young SA filmmaker, Lebogang Rasethaba (Check 10and5′s profile of him over here.) to bring you Future Sound of Mzansi, a documentary on contemporary SA electronic music. [...]

Tess and Snowy in… Friendzone

You’re not in the “Friendzone”, they just don’t like you like that, okay?   You can follow Sheldon on twitter @SheldonBengtson and you can peep more of his work on his blog.

Listen To New Felix Laband Tracks

He’s baaaaaaaaaack.   Yesterday afternoon Felix Laband dropped three new tracks and the SA electronic music scene collectively came in their pants. For those of you who don’t know him (WHAT?!), Felix has been one of the most progressive producers of electronic music for over a decade now and he’s definitely your favourite electronic artist’s [...]

Watch Riky Rick’s Nafukwa

Fok Julle Naaiers   A couple weeks back we dropped Riky Rick’s latest single, Nafukwa (Fok Julle Naaiers), and now, thanks to Adriaan Louw there’s a video for it. The song will make you feel small for fronting so much and the video adds visual grit and a fierceness from Riky Rick that compliments the track [...]

Listen To Give Me Your Love By Gateway Drugs

Prepare yourself for more 80s Pastiche Synth Pop straight outta Cape Town.     It’s always a good day when there’s new music from Gateway Drugs. Their 80s pastiche synth pop will have you feeling like you’re in a John Hughes flick. Their latest track, Give Me Your Love,is composed and produced by Andrew Esterhuizen [...]

DIFF 2014 Opening Weekend

 The 35th Durban International Film Fest is officially underway and we’re drowning in films. Here’s what we’ve seen so far. Bob here. We’ve made it through the opening weekend of the 35th edition of DIFF. Phew, it’s been chaotic, someone OD’d, another drowned in the pool at the Elangeni, Roger Young had a threesome… It’s [...]

DIFF Reviews: Future Sound of Mzansi

Bob Perfect leaves Spoek Mathambo’s doccie on South African electronic music wanting to dance. I still remember the first local electronic song that piqued my interest. I found Sibot’s Super Evil with Waddy Jones on one of those SL compilations which, up until then, were most notable to me for featuring a track by Candice [...]

Tess and Snowy in… Support

Tess’s cynicism knows no bounds. You can follow Sheldon on twitter @SheldonBengtson and you can peep more of his work on his blog.

Watch Nic Billington’s Mad Chick Music Video

Enjoy.     From the press release:   Move Over Barbie and Ken!   South African musician, Nic Billington is up to his usual shenanigans again, this time in the form of a vibrant, and cheeky (excuse the pun) music video called Mad Chick.     The new visual co-stars glamour model- turned singer, Naomi [...]

Listen To Backcapwoods’ Debut EP

Fresh glitch-hop out of Cape Town from a Durban punk.     Many of you should be familiar with Matt Ilbury, the young punk jammed in Durban folk punk band The Trees before moving to Cape Town last year. Since making the move down the coast, Matt’s been working on some glitch-hop beats which he [...]

Download The Gumbo Ya-Ya’s Debut Album

Out of the ashes of The Future Primitives rises a garage rock phoenix, The Gumbo Ya-Ya’s. We never got to see The Future Primitives in Durban, which, from what I hear, is a great shame. Thankfully for us, out of the ashes a new garage rock phoenix has risen, The Gumbo Ya-Ya’s. Made of two [...]

Palestine Day March In Durban

Last Friday thousands of Durbanites gathered together to march in solidarity with Palestine. Russell Grant was there to show you what happened if you weren’t.     At some point during Friday’s march I came across a group of young Muslim men carrying a coffin with a Palestinian flag draped over it. When questioned one [...]