Punk
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Apple’s Top 100 List: A coalition of Rock and Pop, but at what cost?
We South Africans know our coalitions (we’ll probably see more after our elections) and the recently released Apple Music 100 Best Albums list smells exactly like one
Kuli Roberts: Naked at the feast
The untimely passing of Kuli Roberts, gossip columnist du jour of post-apartheid’s Gilded Age, shocked the nation. Bongani Madondo, who first encountered her earlier in her…
‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall
‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography
New documentary out on iconic Springs band The Radio Rats
A new documentary revisits the Radio Rats, who helped revolutionise SA rock.
On bass culture and incarnations of Grace Jones: Punk and third world tech
What do Grace Jones, Nina Simone and Lee Scratch Perry have to do with punk?
Pussy Riot freed to improve Russia’s image, says band member
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has said their release from prison was not a humanitarian gesture, but a propaganda stunt ahead of the Winter Olympics.
New York’s Met Museum celebrates punk’s influence on fashion
Hollywood’s biggest stars turned out for the launch of the exhibition which honours the creativity and individuality of punk’s fashion rebels.
From book pages to real stages
A radical punk revolution was just an idea in a novel by a disaffected Muslim convert but for the bands he inspired the scene became real.