Jo'burg music pick: January 6 2012

Kitchener’s Carvery Bar is enjoying a second heyday. The 100-year-old drinking hole, in one of the city’s few remaining historical hotels, now attracts a healthy dancing crowd to its weekly gigs serviced by local DJs.

The website tells us that the venue has a “progressive music policy, without leaving anyone out in the cold, [it] strives to bring the coolest of what’s out there”. On Saturday January 7 don’t miss an appearance by the immensely popular Scottish-born dubstep hero Kode9. The dance-floor star’s online biography tells us that he owns his own record label, Hyperdub, has a doctorate in philosophy and has published a book titled Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear. Also on the decks on Saturday catch Catalist from Canada and locals Kid Fonque, DJ Danger Ingozi and DJ Andrew.

Kitchener’s, corner of Juta and De Beer streets, Braamfontein, on January 7 from 9pm.