(Photo Credit – Lea’s Lens) Pretoria based quartet Joy Club Cassidy Cassidy is everything a punk band should be and more, sarcastic, serious, satirical, fun, fast and ferocious. They’re releasing their new single Anti-Fan on all digital platforms today! The track is taken from their upcoming album 22 Songs set for release later this year.…
Spanish sludge rock trio originally formed in Alicante (Spain) circa 2013, featuring members of Pyramidal (Lluís Mas) and doom metal act Hela (Mireia Porto) and Elena García. Their take on the stoner genre is a furious and eclectic blend of influences ranging from Sonic Youth to the Melvins, showcasing brooding & atmospheric vocals laced with…
(Photographer – Claudine van der Walt) South African purveyors of brutal death metal Vulvodynia have announced a six date African tour which will see the band playing their home country as well as shows in Mozambique and Botswana. 2019 was an incredible year for the band, they released their critically acclaimed new album Mob Justice…
Today sees the release of Sweet Escape, the new EP from Johannesburg based musician and singer-songwriter Jason Zeeman. Jason once fronted the South African rock band, Reason whose debut self-titled album was nominated, and won at the 17th Annual SAMA’s. Following some success with Reason, Jason spent time honing his craft and music experiences on…
(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…
