For all the scale and prestige that comes with the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF), what stayed with us most this year was…
There’s a particular kind of artist South African house music produces every few years. Not always the loudest in the room, nor the name…
Cape Town loves music in a way that’s hard to argue with: you can feel it in the pockets of live performance that keep…
Cape Town’s music scene is usually discussed in fragments. The punk kids are over here. The jazz heads are somewhere else. Rap has its…
In a music economy increasingly shaped by experiences rather than recordings, the most valuable move an artist can make is no longer just releasing…
These days, too many events feel designed for people who drift in, snap a few photos, and leave before the night really begins. The…
For a few hours on the evening of the first Thursday of September, Cape Town’s music scene witnessed a shift. When Aloe Aloe and…
By the time the last question was asked last Saturday afternoon, you could feel it: nobody wanted to leave. In a city where meaningful…
The first thing I saw was a pink drink and a pile of scavenger hunt cards. Not the usual start to a Cape Town…