Elektrik Ram is the new single and title track from South African stoner rock reprobates Ruff Majik’s upcoming album. Vocalist and guitarist Johni Holiday’s quick stint in a mental wellness facility brought on the lyrics and structure of Elektrik Ram. “What started as a fun ditty, emulating the sound of Siamese Dream era Smashing Pumpkins,…
Ethyl Ether are a five-piece psychedelic rock band from Cape Town. Formed in 2016, the band has released 3 full length albums, the last album, 2020’s Chrome Neon Jesus earned the band a SAMA (South African Music Awards) nomination for Best Rock Album as well as being well received by international rock media with the…
Jack Hammer Band will be releasing their new album Second Chapter on the 1st February 2023. To celebrate the release the band will be playing a host of shows across Cape Town during the first week of February. Founded by musical legend Piet Botha, the band have been captivating audiences across the country for over…
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys are an art pop ambient noise band based in Berlin. The group, fronted by South African born artist, Lucy Kruger, create music that is full of atmosphere and intensity. In April 2022 the band released, ‘Teen Tapes (for performing your stunts)’ – a follow up to their previous record…
On the 18th of November 2022 Jonathan Crossley released his latest album, Inhale. This album features works by Crossley and Nick Horsten, performed by Crossley on synth guitar, with Carlo Mombelli on bass and Jonno Sweetman on drums. Bored City said that the ‘mixing is excellent, and the production is polished, smart …. a whole…
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have just shared Stereoscope, the first single from a new album which will be out next year. ‘A Stereoscope is a device by which two photographs of the same object taken at slightly different angles are viewed together, creating an impression of depth and solidity.’ The song, which plays…
Six Feet of Snow is the latest single from SAMA (South African Music Award) nominated rock and roll 5-piece Ethyl Ether. The track charges with shoegaze aesthetics and classic loud-quiet-loud sonics. A surrealistic, wall of sound tsunami, Six Feet Of Snow nods to classic moshpit gymnastic-styled choruses that detonate with alluring magic and subsiding tides…
MOAN are four dudes from Groningen, Netherlands, today sees the release of their crushing new self-titled EP out on AudioSport Records. An album which is already garnering widespread acclaim from media with the likes of Doomed & Stoned in the US saying “MOAN is an dank, atmospheric wonder, with substance enough to satiate doomed and…
The Boys Scribbled Like Mad is the new album from Yndian Mynah, a South African instrumental band based in Cape Town. Their sound can be described as post-rock music with hints of dreamy psychedelia, post-punk and prog rock that vacillate sounds between explosive edges and nostalgic narratives. Influenced by DIY culture, the band started off…
Inhale is the new album from UK based, South African guitarist Jonathan Crossley with backing from fellow South African’s Carlo Mombelli on bass and drummer Jonno Sweetman. Crossley fell in love with music at the age of five, lying flat on the floor, just outside Belfast, with an old set of (loud) Rotel headphones on,…