Cult band The Buckfever Underground launched their seventh album, Verkeerdevlei, over two nights. Lloyd Gedye celebrated the milestone with them.
Comedy duo Flight of the Conchords took absurd suggestions from the mouths of babes to raise funds for a New Zealand-based charity Cure Kids.
They have a growing local and foreign fan base and music critics say they are the next big thing.
Musicians have started challenging accepted ideas about the state of the music album.
<b>Paul Riekert</b> pays tribute to his Battery9 collaborator and friend, Huyser Burger, who died this week.
Four Buckfever Underground gigs in four
nights. <b>Lloyd Gedye</b> joins the punk-poetry
band as they warm up for a stint in the studio.
It’s a curiosity of the live music scene in SA that a band can gig in Cape Town to rave reviews for two years and never make a trip north to Jo’burg.
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/ 22 September 2011
REM, once dubbed "America’s Best Rock & Roll Band", said on Wednesday they had decided to "call it a day" after more than 30 years of hits.
There was much on-stage flailing of hair, crashing about and mayhem at Fruits and Veggies’ launch of <i>Ndaa</i>, the Afro-punk-ska outfit’s debut.
Photos from the Beatles’ first US concert in Washington in 1964 will be auctioned as silver gelatin prints.
How Shadowclub returned from the dead to record one of the finest South African rock albums of 2011.
Think Gogol Bordello meets the Tiger Lilies with a touch of Beirut and you will have a fair idea of the wacky world sound of Mr Cat and the Jackal.
Taxi Violence have taken their early material and given us a masterclass in how a band can grow, learn and become best of breed.
Although true to his punk roots, Jay Bones has embraced some pop influences on his new album.
There seems to have been something that has always stopped the Beastie Boys from operating on the timescale to which most bands stick.
<i>Hot Sauce Committee Part Two</i> hit the streets last week to much fanfare and justifiably so.
Poly Styrene, who has died of cancer at the age of 53, was one of the punk era’s true original talents.
The band is living up to its promise — pumping out new numbers — and breaking new ground
This year’s Splashy Fen music festival was a revelation because of the quality of Durban’s unpretentious new crop of bands.
There are very few wasted moments on a Black Hotels album.
Juliana Venter, legendary Mud Ensemble’s singer, has made a comeback after 10 years in Europe.
Seven years after it formed, the Los Angeles band has released its debut album — and the critics love it.
Iron & Wine’s major label debut <i>Kiss Each Other Clean</i> adds a metallic-funk veneer to Sam Beam’s gorgeous songwriting skills.
U2’s lead singer speaks to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about transparency and Africa’s 21st-century moment.
Irish rocker Bono on Wednesday said it was "barking mad" for people to think he supported the "shoot the boer" song.
<strong>Lloyd Gedye</strong>’s 10-song crash course on what happened in South African music in 2010.
<i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine is publishing an interview with John Lennon, conducted three days before the former Beatle was gunned down in New York.
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The Beatles on Apple’s iTunes? Let it be. The Fab Four’s music is expected, finally, to be available for sale at Apple’s online music store.
Long-time underdogs make a play for rock ‘n roll glory, and it’s very convincing, says <b>Lloyd Gedye</b>.
Cape Town’s post-rock outfit Benguela have made a cold, angular, menacing album of improvisational music. <b>Lloyd Gedye</b> takes a listen.
Australian band Men At Work were ordered to pay 5% of profits from iconic hit <i>Down Under</i> for ripping off Girl Guide ditty <i>Kookaburra</i>.
We review the latest music DVD releases, with offerings from The Black Crowes and Calexico.