Glastonfurry is comfortably the loudest thing anyone in Cape Town will do for stray cats and dogs all year. On Heritage Day, the fundraiser lands at Woodstock Brewery for its seventh edition, a day of metal and hardcore with BEAST at the top of the bill, every cent going to the Cape of Good Hope SPCA. The noise is the easy part to write about. What happens to the money once the last band packs down is worth noting, and it goes even further than you might expect.
If everyone is alternative then nothing is alternative Damian Strydom doesn’t sugarcoat what it costs to run an independent tour…
On Tuesday night, at Quiet Life Co’s studio in Cape Town, Jabulile Majola and Ross Dorkin, who produced most of…
Feastival’s Cabo Women’s Day edition served up a good night of music. What stayed with us was how safe it…
The panic says the machines are winning. The numbers say almost nobody is streaming what they make. The bigger question…
Cape Town has spent the best part of a decade watching its live rooms go dark. The Assembly, Mercury Live,…
Scenes don’t survive on venues and streaming numbers alone. They survive on transmission, one player putting something into the hands…
The best Cape Town music events don’t just happen to you. Someone books the room, talks the venue round, pays…
Most Cape Town DJs come up through club culture. Tshegofatso Kwele (DJ name Kwele) came up through a piano. Before…
We were at Youngblood on the last Friday of June, in a room thick with familiar faces, when espAfrika set…
