Jason Curtis
latest news & developments‘Rock has been nice to us’
Close on a decade and four albums later, Live are one of rock music’s more important and widely respected players when it comes to enthused originality and balls-to-the-wall,…
Turn up the Volume
<b>CD of the week:</b> Tumi and The Volume:<i>At the Bassline</i> Every now and again an album creeps up and sinks its teeth into your aural cavity so successfully that it makes…
Rock hard porn
Something old, some-thing new, something borrowed, something blue. Words typically reserved for those about to enter the institution of matrimony are an apt and fitting…
‘I’d happily sink whaling ships’
In an industry continually reporting the demise of yet another player, band or record label, Chrissie Hynde is assertively nonchalant about her place, writes Jason Curtis. Hynde…
Natural high
Busi Mhlongo’s new album flirts with jazz and pays tribute to struggle heroes. She talks to Jason Curtis about the highs and the lows.
Playing with the boys
Tamara Dey is an individual, and her music represents that as much as her fans applaud her and her role as an emissary of local music’s many faces. Jason Curtis lends an ear to…
The city speaks
Jason Curtis speaks to one of the United States’s finest wordsmiths, poet Ursula Rucker, who appears at this year’s Urban Voices festival.
Depart to conquer
Pop band Watershed has quietly become the biggest musical export to Europe since Johnny Clegg and Savuka. A tight international itinerary will keep them busy well into next year,…
The ghosts of the past
Placebo drummer Steven Hewitt talks to Jason Curtis about their new album.
Architects of evolution
Massive Attack speak to Jason Curtis about war in Iraq and their new album.
Escape to LA
Robbie Williams tells Jason Curtis about his move to Los Angeles and his latest album.
Jamming for the love of it
Jason Curtis talks to Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament.
Living the MTV lifestyle
A South African rock band is making it big in the United States, writes Jason Curtis.
New ambassadors of Afrikaans
Kobus! have become the unsuspecting yet willing ambassadors of the Afrikaans renaissance in music, writes Jason Curtis.
Jinx hits Coldplay
The dreaded second-album jitters — or the "sophomore jinx", as it is affectionately referred to in music circles — have assaulted their latest victim.