(73 reads) I am in love with this album. Cheri’s sweetness teamed up with Darryl’s technical savvy and the production of Brent Knopf from Menomena has combined to create the Holy Grail of local albums. It’s not ...
Zoë Davis - 27 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Nine]
(45 reads) Remember there was a time when everybody wanted to be in Cape Town? When Cape Town was the Hip-hop Mecca and we all wanted to be graffiti writers? Those who did go to Cape Town to live out this pipe d...
Montle Moorosi - 20 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]
(101 reads) I’m listening to DJ Skhokhso’s album with the TV playing on mute, and on the screen is the video for the Pussy Cat Dolls, “When I throw up”. ...
Montle Moorosi - 13 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]
(48 reads) Standing at the bar at Saturday night’s LKJ gig, and along came Neil Comfort, veteran promoter on the Durban music scene from way back since the bad old days and present owner of legendary venue The R...
Travis Lyle - 4 May 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]
(85 reads) I had been looking forward to this for months. I’d listened to the album online until I knew it backwards. Finally the email arrived in my inbox: Dear Reader album launch at The Assembly, Cape Town. W...
Zoë Davis - 30 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Nine]
(78 reads) Imagine another picturesque Cape evening at Kirstenbosch gardens overlooking the amphitheatre… on your left, the burnt mountain bandaged by dark clouds; on your right, a pink sky hovered above the fla...
Luca Vincenzo - 24 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]
(199 reads) Wrestlerish are a product of their environment. Fresh, popular, culture aware, enthusiastic and honest. Musically, they exist on the good side of the border of radio friendly, sing-alongable, but not ...
Nathan Zeno - 6 Apr 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]
(76 reads) Jim Neversink exists in a difficult space. He appeals to a crowd that largely won't become rabid fans, an older more refined crowd that appreciates the nuance in his music. I can't for one moment say ...
Nathan Zeno - 30 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Six]
(56 reads) The tight crowd is throwing hands in the air to the beat boxing as Brandon from Pocket Change sings gentle urging words, sharp strumming his guitar. Pocket Change are Brandon on acoustic guitar and vo...
Nathan Zeno - 23 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]
(68 reads) What the Ass is to the east end, Albert Hall is to Woodstock –a warm, dark hole in the wall. ...
Jess Henson - 18 Mar 2009, 00:00 - Rating [
Eight]