When Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields last week, an all-women festival in California with the proceeds going to women’s and girls’ charities, it got us thinking about home. Not whether we could copy it. Whether Cape Town has its own version waiting to happen.
Writing about VERVE Magazine turning two is strange in the best possible way. On paper, they are technically a competitor.…
Cape Town’s SIDEPIECE are a punk band with a sense of humour and something to say, and Faux Confidence is…
There is a particular kind of advice that gets handed to emerging artists in Cape Town when a brand finally…
Cape Town doesn’t get a steady stream of international tours. It comes in waves. A few quiet months. Then suddenly:…
This piece is about a campaign, a document, and a growing movement that could meaningfully shift how live music works…
There’s a version of event production that most of us have quietly accepted as the norm: book a venue, stack…
If you’ve spent any time in Cape Town’s live music circles over the past few years, you’ve probably ended up…
For all the scale and prestige that comes with the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF), what stayed with us…
There’s a particular kind of artist South African house music produces every few years. Not always the loudest in the…
