(Photographer – Stefan Hurter) A tossing of the bones. The storyteller returns… Doc MacLean’s fourth African tour, N’ganga Blues, kicks off on the 10th January 2020 in Pringle Bay and finds him returning to many of the places visited on his previous adventures. The “World’s Biggest Little Blues Tour” will touch most parts of South…
Cleveland dark rock band Frayle creates gripping, doomy music — at once bleak and beautiful — that is impossible to resist. The group will release its debut full-length LP, ‘1692‘, on the 14th February 2020 via Aqualamb Records and Lay Bare Recordings. The band have released the video for Gods of No Faith, which originally premiered…
RAMFEST are beyond excited to announce death metal giants The Black Dahlia Murder as headliners for the 2020 editions of the festival. The band will be headlining both the Cape Town (13th March 2020) and Pretoria (14th March 2020) events along with two reunion shows from South African rock royalty Van Coke Kartel. The diverse…
(Photographer Luke Daniel) It’s been a fantastic year for Cape Town’s folk punk band The Shabs, from signing to South Africa’s leading independent label Just Music for the release for the release of their latest album Can You Hear Us at the Back, to 3 successful album launch tours that included the UK, Europe and…
After yesterday’s news that Dance Gavin Dance have had to cancel their South African tour, JamPacked Productions are very happy to announce that Texas based post-hardcore quartet Crown the Empire have stepped in to fill the current dates. “The JamPacked Productions team is so incredibly excited (and beyond grateful) to announce that American post-hardcore band,…
Pretoria based, South African progressive punk rock band All This For Nothing return with an eclectic new album entitled Reverence. After gigging intensely from their inception in 1998 through to 2005, the group gained loyal local support for their unique hybrid of punk, metal and progressive influences, delivered through intense live performances. During this time…
Sacramento based post-hardcore giants Dance Gavin Dance cancel their 2020 South African Tour It’s with a heavy heart that JamPacked Productions must announce the cancellation of the Dance Gavin Dance South African tour which was set for the end of February 2020. This is unfortunately out of the promoter’s hands and was a decision made…
