Pieter Hendriks is a musical solitudinarian who has enough gumption to leave the commonplace behind and only take with him what can enrich his music and performance. There is a certain weight of tragedy in his music. Pieters gravelly voice possesses an uneasy moodiness that reflects doom and despair, which immerses you in the dark…
Second Chapter is the new album from South African rockers the Jack Hammer Band. Founded by musical legend Piet Botha, the band have been captivating audiences across the country for over three decades. After Piet’s untimely passing, the band is continuing with the legacy, with live shows featuring classics from their immense discography as well…
Second Chapter is the new album from South African rockers the Jack Hammer Band. Founded by musical legend Piet Botha, the band have been captivating audiences across the country for over three decades. After Piet’s untimely passing, the band is continuing with the legacy, with live shows featuring classics from their immense discography as well…
Jack Hammer Band will be releasing their new album Second Chapter on the 1st February 2023. To celebrate the release the band will be playing a host of shows across Cape Town during the first week of February. Founded by musical legend Piet Botha, the band have been captivating audiences across the country for over…
Blues – rock rebel, Basson Laubscher brings you the last single off his rock opera, Testify, called Bonnie & Clyde. The song captures the chaos, thrill & freedom of a couple on the run. With its hypotonic guitar boogie, driving bass lines, and chugging drums, you will be headbanging all the way. The track paints…
Basson Laubscher & his band of blues-rock bandits brings you a hard-hitting, raw, garage-rock salvo on his latest single Shoot Me Down. Shoot Me Down takes lyrical inspiration from the frustration and defeat from the end of a relationship and inevitable breakup and blends it musically into blissfully dirty, heavy, psychedelic, fuzzed-out rock n’ roll.…
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…
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…
Rest & Resurrection is the new EP from Johannesburg-based, South African blues-infused-hard rock artist, Ross Harding out now on Mongrel Records. Ross is known for his fusion of blues and hard rock with strong elements of classic rock, 90’s alternative and grunge. In 2017 Harding formed the blues rock band, Black Harbour, with fellow musician…
Doc is a weathered, wily, but infinitely likeable storyteller/performer. Writing from the dark side of the blues highway. Telling songs and singing stories. This blues came from the Mississippi delta. But before that, it came from Africa. Passed down from mouth to mouth. More than music. A placement of the human spirit. Doc’s early…