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…
The Cape Town eight-piece built a devoted live following long before they released a note. Their debut single, recorded at…
When Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields last week, an all-women festival in California with the proceeds going to women’s…
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…