The artist’s new Joburg exhibition has drips and smears – it can scare you – but it can also make you feel light
The BLK JKS present a two-day transcendental music experience during their Black Rock Safari tour
The jazz musician’s album comes with a backstory as good as the music itself
The second album from BLK JKS captures the band’s strengths, weaknesses and sonic vision
Their single blends Leraba’s famo vocals and nostalgic memories of the 2011 Hifa festival
Morena Leraba and Kommanda Obbs draw upon deep roots in creating the new Sesotho sound
Not just a genre, gqom is not being recognised in the industry as the cultural movement that it is
After years of hiding and seeking, the former BLK JKS frontman has again reappeared armed with a fresh approach to his work.
Mercurial jester? Tragic hero? Compulsive and relentless obfuscator? His latest book shows that Bongani Madondo is all of the above.
Three South African musicians talk about the spell of the purple one.
As tributes continue to pour in for rock legend David Bowie, South African artists take some time out to remember music’s ultimate chameleon.
A BLK JK has swapped music for film with ‘Black President’, homing in on an artist whose work interrogates power on the African continent.
For their next project, the Blk Jks have teamed up with performance art collective, the Brother Moves On, to present "Blk Brother".
The genre-bending poet, dancer, fashion designer and singer’s debut album will be out in the new year.
The cultural scene in Johannesburg’s inner city spawned the birth of a number of experimental black music acts. Kwanele Sosibo tracks their evolution.
The BLK JKS have some new faces, but they’re still doing what made them great – breaking down genre barriers and building new sounds.
Welcome to August House, a relic of Doornfontein’s ?industrial past and home ?to some of South ?Africa’s top artists.
The International Exhibition of Black Music at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg, is a real treat.
BLK JKS’s Tshepang Ramoba and Mpumi Mcata have joined up with Joao Orecchia to form Motel Mari. Lloyd Gedye decodes their homage to the city.
<strong>Lloyd Gedye</strong>’s 10-song crash course on what happened in South African music in 2010.
<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> caught up with the continent’s music stars before the Fifa Kick-Off Concert on Thursday and asked them about their expectations.
They were chosen to open the World Cup and are the South African music industry’s sexiest export, writes <b>Lloyd Gedye</b>.
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/ 11 December 2008
Johannesburg’s afro-rock outfit BLK JKS have put pen to paper for a lucrative deal with American Independent record label Secretly Canadian.
<i>M&G</i> reviewers listen to five new CD releases: Aidan Cornhill, BLK JKS, Jim Neversink, Andy Lund and the Mission Men, and The Meditators.