Thursday, February 7th, 2013
The best interview subjects often-times turn out to not only possess an affable personality, but also tend to express vast, in-depth knowledge in whatever the topic under discussion may be. Cape Town-based bassist Shane Cooper is one such character. A mainstay in bands like Babu as well as the Kyle Shepherd trio, Shane also doubles
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
“YOU might call me a catalyst. A catalyst changes everything, but it remains unchanged” — Sun Ra In just under a year, 79 Buitenkant Street in central Cape Town (around the corner from the country’s Parliament) has...
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
This list of 10 albums by African artists probably says more about my own musical preferences than it does about all those other “Best Albums of 2012″ year-end lists floating around on the web which didn’t include...
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Artists loathe hyper-intellectualism. Rationalization tends to eradicate emotion and surrendering passion becomes another way to pay the devil. But then there are those artists whose intellectualism is a birthright, not by choice and inescapable. Take, for example,...
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Fresh off a Japanese tour, Capetonian jazz musician Kyle Shepherd returns with a third album entitled ‘South African History !X,’ which, he explains in the video above, “pays homage to the languages of the first nation...
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Egyptian Graffiti and Gender Politi...
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Music Break
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Buying 10 Hollands*
19 Jun 2011 at 1:00 pm
Music Break
7 Mar 2011 at 5:00 pm
Stealing into Canada under the cove...
4 Feb 2013 at 12:00 pm
The (very unpopular) Nigerian finan...
27 Mar 2012 at 6:30 pm
‘Africa’s First World Cup’ Revisite...
11 Mar 2011 at 7:00 am
Summer List | Africa Tumblrs
26 Jul 2012 at 3:00 am
Mamphela Ramphele has a Party
20 Feb 2013 at 6:00 am
