LIP SERVICE / BLACK LIPS
The Psych Night and Vans recently brought out the Black Lips from Atlanta, Georgia to South Africa for three epic shows. Great planning resulted in…
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WORD COUNT / JENNIFER EAVES
Jennifer Eaves is South Africa’s answer to the late great British folk singer Sandy Denny – her voice that rare mix of cool and sexy,…
THIRTEEN HOF / DISGUSTING ART? DISTINGUISHED HI-FI!
13Hof is not your everyday hi-fi retailer. Rather than build a run of the mill store, 13hof focuses on creating an extraordinary experience. Music and…
CAPE GYPSY / HILTON SCHILDER
“I’m totally into music as a composer. It’s my whole life. It’s my philosophy. It’s my religion. I started composing very young and the compositions…
SALT & THUNDER / THE MIND-ALTERING ROCK OF 1970’S ZAMBIA
“For those who don’t know Africa much, we were not living in isolation here. The hippie time, the flowers, love and everything, Woodstock, we were…
WAX JUNKIE / JAN WELTER
I listen to a lot of music so it’s probably quite wise to pin me down to six records. Enjoy, maybe it will open some…
VUMA LEVIN / IMAGINATION, POLITICS AND OTHER SPECTACLES
Vuma Levin is an artist who finds himself simultaneously at the end of history, and in the middle of it. Amsterdam and Joburg serve as…
PSYCHOTHERAPY / PSYCH NIGHT
Psych Night, a collective of mavericks that host regular events celebrating psychedelia in South Africa, is made up of Andre Leo (one half of dreamy…
ABSTRACTION / CARLO MOMBELLI
“I didn’t face many obstacles – my black musician friend faced the obstacles. I remember when I was working in Johnny Fourie’s band, Duke Makazi…
WAX JUNKIE / JESSICA CROSS
“My memories of seeing an LP and my realization of the uniqueness of its sound are two different memories. The first time I can remember…
BLUE NOTE / LOUIS MOHOLO
Louis Tebogo Moholo (1940) is the only surviving member of South Africa’s legendary jazz sextet The Blue Notes, which consisted of Moholo on drums, Chris…
GHOST FOLK / JULIAN REDPATH
“Genre always just feels like a nonsense thing. I don’t think anyone really wants to be labelled so it’s just best to make up your…
BLACK MATH / CHAOS THEORY
“We like to sound different in every song, we don’t want to pigeonhole ourselves to only having one sound, that would be pretty boring. Even…
BEN SHERMAN AUTUMN / WINTER 2015 FILM FEATURING THE BOYS OF SOWETO
Ben Sherman South Africa and the BoysOfSoweto this Autumn/Winter 2015 season showcase ‘THE ORIGINAL BUTTON UP SINCE 1963’ heritage brand, Ben Sherman and the Button…
ALLAH LAS / ECHO BEACH
A short, bearded American chap donning brown leather boots, tight jeans and a sweater pops up next to me and orders a tequila. His holiday…
SISTER OF MERCY / SYLVIE SIMMONS
London-born but San Francisco-based Sylvia Simmons is first and foremost a rock writer, who started in 1977 and has since interviewed virtually everybody, from Rod…
COKE ZERO / FRANCOIS VAN COKE
I wake up in Boston, Bellville, over a cup of instant coffee and a Stuyvesant. We’re sitting in his garden making small talk. I’ve only…
WILDERNESSKING / HEAVY ELEVATOR JAZZ
“People have this perception that if you play metal then you’re angry and hate the world. That’s the general consensus, but what they seem to…
WARRICK SONY / KALAHARI SURFERS
“I was the first dude to cut up tapes and use avant-garde shit with contemporary Lee Scratch Perry studio techniques on Afrikaans radio-political-speech-crazy-ass-punk ‘do it…
NIKHIL SINGH / WITCHBOY
“I generally avoid definitions, preferring to grow like a stain behind things, in dark corners, under beds…etc. One day a person might look up and…
BYE BENECO / CHEMIROCHA
Chemirocha is not only a song that comes from the Kipsigi tribe in Kenya but it also tells the story of how the American yodler,…
BLACK MATH – CAPE TOWN TOUR
Black Math is a Durban based three piece Garage Rock band. This video documents their tour that occurred early January proudly organized by Psych Night…
CYMATICS / NIGEL JOHN STANFORD
The most unusual part of making Cymatics was the fact that the music was written after the video was filmed. In 1999 I watched a…
HEINO RETIEF / GUMBO YA-YA’S / JAMBALAYA
“There’s only one way to record rock n roll, and that is ‘live and raw’. This way, you capture more of the feeling, even if…
PURITY ZINHLE MKHIZE / FIRE IN BABYLON
“Growing up I’d always get Laughed at because people in my community don’t understand and aren’t really exposed To alternative individualism at all. I was…
IAN BRUCE HUNTLEY / KEEPING TIME
It’s 1964 South Africa, the height of what was considered grand apartheid. A large part of the white South African male population sits in their…
ANGEL DUST / THE GOLDEN ANIMALS
“The Golden Animals are like Native Americans in an episode of Star Trek. Jangly guitar accompanied by drums fit for a symphonic orchestra is all…
SANNIE FOX / “RING THEM BELLS
“ My mother is Portuguese and my father is South African, I grew up in London and Cape Town. I love culture and stories, this…