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Spring Fiesta brings dance music heavyweights together across five stages
Spring Fiesta returns with an explosive multi-genre lineup across five stages, bringing together South Africa's dance music legends and rising stars in Amapiano, Deep House, Afro…
Dwson prepares for debut set at Cape Town International Jazz Festival
Dwson’s upcoming appearance at the major music festival in his hometown places his journey from local clubs to global stages into sharp, full-circle focus
Umzulu Phaqa: Singing stories, shifting culture and making music her own way
A genre-blending storyteller, Phaqa is redefining Zulu identity through culture-rich and fearless sound
Diary: Sobukwe film screening, Kwasuka Sukela a fun event for the whole family and Kwaito makes a komeback
Sobukwe film screened at jail where he was kept In celebration of Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe, who would have been 100 years old on 5 December, the…
Say goodbye to 80s disco in PE? Never!
Fifty years ago, disco started having an impact. Its influence was felt even in apartheid South Africa
Night Embassy Joburg is back: The city that never sleeps resumes the nightlife
DBN Gogo, Blxckie and ByLwansta are headliners at the return of this iconic event
South African artist Lazarusman elated to be part of Grammy nominated album
Slam poet Lazarusman’s vocals feature on and inspired the title of Booka Shade album Dear Future Self.
Nostalgia, connection and the nomadic sound of Mx Blouse
Mx Blouse talks about their sonic influences and how these fused together to shape their debut album, ‘Elementality’
The soundtrack to Dezemba
Every year people talk about the ‘song of the summer’, but it is so much more than that
The house that women built
Women vocalists are getting the credit they deserve from house vocalist Jackie Queens
The Lists this week: Airspace, THEESatisfaction and Amiri Baraka’s Black Music
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo.
Monique Bingham brings out her best
The legendary vocalist talks about her skirmish with American DJ Osunlade and the influence of South African house music.
DJ Clock-Beatenberg collaboration a win-win dance hit
"Pluto" is filling dance floors and the airwaves, pushing Cape Town band Beatenberg into the spotlight.
Mark de Clive-Lowe: Transcending the beat
DJ, producer and jazz pianist Mark de Clive-Lowe says he was chasing a girl when he first came to London from New Zealand in the late nineties.
Ibrahim gives South African house a home
Electro-soul singer and global denizen Zaki Ibrahim has always been a nomad, but it is becoming easier for her to call SA, her father’s country, home.