Best Album Ever is the debut album from South African’s The Devil’s Party Band. Hailed as their home countries first Hard Rock Supergroup, all the members have made massive strides within the local and global music industry. Consisting of Anthonie van der Walt (ex. Thysis and Jack Hammer) on Vocals, his brother and bassist Chris…
The Amblers release their long-awaited live studio ep, Live at High Seas today via Mongrel Records. A blistering live collection of the bands minimalist blues-rock style. Fuzzed-out guitar lines, and austere drum-work frame the bands skeletal, high energy, balls-to-the-wall rock and roll foundation. Distorted, quiet, fuzzy, and thunderous the amblers effortlessly juxtapose between these counterpoints…
The final record in Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys series of tapes is a love story of 10 songs that are intimate, poetic, beautiful, at moments compellingly carnal and always teeming with the starkest of feelings. Titled Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) the album releases today, April 8th via Unique Records, it…
Upcoming Cape Town based singer songwriter Keanan Eksteen releases the video for this new single Dixie Clouds. Born and raised in the small town of Kraaifontein with the longing to expand his horizons and escape the monotony of small-town life Keanan turned to music. Musicality runs in his family with his dad playing in a…
Acid Magus released their debut album, Wyrd Syster on the 30th July 2021. Heaving with fuzzy guitars, fat bass lines and thunderous drums, as one has come to be expected from the four-piece. The release was extremely well received within the heavy music scene, garnering widespread attention from media and fans. Doom, Stoner, Punk, Psych,…
Delivering roaring riff heavy rock, Bleeding the Summer is the scorching debut single from South African band Betty’s Nuklear. This song sounds like the birth of a new superpower, commanding melodies belted into your ears with a husky gritty voice. Relentless guitars provide a rich bed for these vocals to bounce off. Established in 2021, the guys deliver groovy…
South Africa’s Hardest working blues-rock jamboree, The Black Cat Bones make a startling return with the release of Quit It; a song waring of the pitfalls of excess. Written for Miriam Makeba by her daughter Bongi, the song features on the classic Caiphus Semenya produced, A Promise (Released in 1974). The Black Cat Bones deliver…
Basson Laubscher & the violent free peace’s ‘ old town’ is a nostalgic drive down memory lane and the carefree comfort of youth. The track sees chief songwriter, Basson Laubscher, reminiscent of the days and nights of his youth, entering adulthood and his coming-of-age story in the sleepy, student town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Basson…
Written during the peak of lockdown in South Africa – Ready To Die is The Tazers most cut-throat, honest and heaviest offering yet. The single starts off slow and smooth, with echoing guitar and vocal melodies for a brief introduction – but the beauty doesn’t last long as the song abruptly turns filthy &…
SonofOld is the project of South African singer songwriter, Nic Olsen. Olsen is best known as one of the front men for early 2000‘s alternative rock band Perez. The band enjoyed success with songs like ‘Picture Perfect’, ‘Dreams and Troubles’ and ‘Wasted Out’. Nic was a member of chart-topping indie rockers Parlotones for a short…