(Photographer – Jacques Schutte) Today sees the release of Ratty old Mo’, the new album from South Africa’s blues-soaked rock n roll duo The Amblers. Already receiving praise from esteemed worldwide music media. Everything Is Noise had the following to say about the album – “ Sometimes edgy, sometimes somber, and always deep, Ratty Old…
(photo credit Mike Bell) Facing the Gallows have announced details for what is set to be an annual Halloween party. Soul Harvest Part 1 takes place at Rumours Rock City in Johannesburg on the 3rd November. The guys are super pumped to have Red Helen, Dirty Moonshine, Deity’s Muse and You, Me and the Harmony…
(Photographer – Marcus Maschwitz) Temples on Mars in association with Plug Music Agency and PureGrainAudio are excited to announce a South African tour for early 2019. The announcement comes hot on the heels of a U.K. headline tour and festival dates at Euroblast in Germany and Progpower in The Netherlands. “2018 has been a busy…
Johannesburg based stoner fuzz rock trio Pollinator have released a western themed video for their new single Missing the Past. Taken from their second full length album Fruit which released in September 2017. The video was filmed in one day by Gavin Pincus at Duikerveld Farm in Heidelberg. Louise Eksteen, bass/vocals comments on the track:…
(Photo Credit – Laura McCullagh) Shun the Reptile, the vicious new album from Cape Town’s Zombies Ate My Girlfriend releases on the 2nd November 2018. The band have decided to give you a taste of what’s to come and release one track before the album drops. Immolation delves into some dark and very real subject…
Pretoria based electro-folk musician Franco Bolleurs aka An Awkward Social has just unveiled the lyric video for his new single Games. Taken from his debut album of the same name, respected entertainment site Texx and the City recently had the following to say about it, “With its ever-relatable themes and its dynamic soundscape, “Games” is…
Plug Music Agency and PureGrainAudio are very happy to announce South African tour dates for Swiss melodic metal giants Dreamshade for early 2019. Playing their infectious style of metal, the band has taken the metal world by storm with their melodic hooks and amazing performances. Dreamshade will be supported by special guests Truth & Its…
(Photo Credit – Laura McCullagh) To celebrate the release of their pummelling new album, Shun the Reptile on the 2nd November, melodic death metallers Zombies Ate My Girlfriend have announced launch dates in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. The 3rd of November sees them heading up north to Sundowners in Alberton with support coming…
Dripping with sweat, and smelling of booze, Dirty Moonshine is everything your mother told you to avoid. Rumbling and thundering from the Gauteng highveld, Dirty Moonshine sets the South African music scene ablaze with their whiskey-swilling, cigarette-toting, blues-swinging, rock ‘n roll. Today sees the release of the video for Shake the Roof, the latest single…
Johannesburg’s purveyors of sludgy-stoner-doom Mad God are set to release their second album Grotesque and Inexorable on the 2nd November. As a little taste for things to come they’ve unveiled a lyric video for the track I Created God taken from the album. “This song was written after watching a Charles Manson documentary following his…