(Photographer – Kevin RC Wilson) Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter, producer, and world-renowned guitar virtuoso, with over 25 years of releasing music, playing international festivals and headlining tours, and gracing magazine covers as a solo artist. He has just announced dates and details for his first ever South African tour where he…
(Photo Credit – Eetu Keränen) DÖ, the Helsinki based döömers are set to release their new album Astral Death Cult at the end of September. Esteemed UK site Outlaws of the Sun have already called it “contender for record of the year. It is that good” in their recent review which you can read here…
Sit The Folk Down, the Cape Town based promoters and event managers are happy to announce that they will be launching their new STFD Studios on the 1st September 2019. Jon Shaban and Kevin Ramage, owners and founders of Sit The Folk Down, have been longtime champions of the DIY ethic and this new venture…
Go The Rodeo is a progressive electro rock band from the western outskirts of Johannesburg. Their current lineup consists of Robert Mitchley (bass guitar), Corne van Niekerk (vocals, guitar) and Craig Atkinson (drums). Their sound is a blend of indie rock, pop, and blues influences, with electronic elements inspired by the likes of The Kills,…
(Photographer – Paige Fiddes) Today sees the release of Bounceology, the new album from Cape Town based gypsy jungle rock collective Crimson House. Crimson House wrote their latest album Bounceology while on permanent tour around South Africa, inspired directly from South African musical acts surrounding the ever-burgeoning music festival scene. The band recorded the album…
Johannesburg’s positive hardcore champions Truth & Its Burden have released the lyric video for their new single Surfacing which premiered exclusively via popular YouTube channel Hardcore Worldwide. This is the first new track from the band since the release of their critically acclaimed album I Labour in 2017. The inspiration behind the track is very…
MØNSTRØID is the love child of 4 dudes from Cape Town, born out of a deeply shared appreciation for writing, making and sharing tectonic plate-shifting music. From the rumbling depths emerges a melodic molten soundscape. From the skies a flaming fireball of fuzz. MØNSTRØID resides where these forces collide. For lovers of growling guitars, distorted…
Cape Town based stoner/desert rock band MØNSTRØID have released the video for their track Lost In the Haze, taken from their 2017 debut album Set 1. Shot in both South Africa and the Namibian desert the band comments on the video,” We love where we live, and we wanted to position the Western regions…
In a small, secluded mining town in rural South Africa, three friends heard the call of the void, and spat fuzz back at it. Thus, Ruff Majik was formed, and the boys decided it was time to move to the city to spread their gospel of riff worship and sound sorcery. Ruff Majik moved…
