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Jazz/Blues
To The Hills
Tristan Waterkeyn’s been around – born in Tanzania, moved to Kenya, then to Zimbabwe and then SA where he learned to play the guitar resulting in his debut solo album, Hay Day .
Afrikaans
Hoenderman
Kobus! was the power-rock SA duo formed initially in 2000 by Theo Crous (Nudies guitarist) and Francois Blom (ex-Voice of Destruction vocalist), here with a big track off their self-titled debut album .
Jazz/Blues
The Ballad Of Me And The Doctor
Some hip new Joburg blues from one of its troubadours off his new debut solo album, Too Early In The Journey .
Rock
Gypsy Boy
SA music legend Piet Botha and the Akkedis Band, Arthur and Rudolph Dennis and AJ Graham, have shared stages and jammed across Southern Africa resulting in their first joint album, One Night Only, recorded last winter and just released as The Lyzyrd Kyngs.
Jazz/Blues
Sibanisezwe
A track off Fox Hill Lane, this Kwazulu-Natal guitar wizard’s third album, beautifully textured with a whole array of instrumentation, all of these played by an equally impressive line up of established musicians.
Dance/House/Electro
Straight To The Hips
Warrick Sony unleashes his latest Kalahari Surfers’ album One Party State, featuring heavy dubstep style wobbly-bass-groove tracks and cut up voice samples.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Babhemi Ft. Sandile Ziqubu
A smoking hot track from this emerging artist off the popular album Special Rekwest .
Jazz/Blues
Undenzani
Mr J is Joel Martins who runs a small recording studio from his Cape home where he not only records his own creations, like The First Step , but also young aspiring artists from his local community.
Jazz/Blues
Inyandz Leyo
A great track off the debut album, Could It Be , from this all female jazz band from Durban.
Rock
Moontide
On their latest EP, World Among The Clouds , the band previously known as Nungarin has remolded their already unique and refreshing sound to produce a mixture of rock, tribal, african, and folk music.
Afrikaans
Babilon Blues
Some classic Afrikaans reggae from the SA music legend off his album, Niemandsland & Beyond!
Thandanani
This legendary SA singing trio formed in 1964 and is noted for its clear three-part harmonies, Mbaqanga township music and fast-paced mgqashiyo dancing, off the Afromagic collection.
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Pop
Red City
A new single off the album, Fireflies In The Rain, the debut solo album from one of South Africa’s leading electric cellists who is best known for her work with the Cape Town group CODA as well as with the groups Electro-Muse and Sterling Electric Quartet.
Dance/House/Electro
Once Upon A Dream
This hot new track is for all those who love deep house music and showcases the endless tricks and skills of Prolurv Charm’s house music production.
Rock
Die Heks Is Dood
One of the eleven new tracks specially recorded by this veteran SA artist inspired by his appearance in the recent spooky KykNET TV series Wie Lê Waar? off the album Spookpsalms.
Jazz/Blues
Blues With A Capital C
Terry Dean writes and plays his own brand of blues, rock and folk music on his latest album Blues with a Capital C , which was recorded live at a local festival and features guest musicians Dave Smith on keyboard, Davie Namonde on bass and Thapelo Monareng on drums.
Rock
Surrender
The brand new single from this dynamic rock band from Johannesburg.
Afrikaans
Donderwolke
The production of her debut solo album Secret Surprise saw Elzahn collaborating talents with acclaimed South African musicians such as Schalk Joubert, Kevin Gibson, Jesse Jordon, Louis Esterhuizen, Ramon Alexander and award winning mixing engineer David Langemann.
Jazz/Blues
Boom Straat
A song from the compilation Jazzing and Jiving – The Cape Town Sessions an eclectic trip through the traditional and modern landscape of Cape Jazz with the city’s finest musicians.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Green Eyes
On her album, Wonderful Life , this Cape-based songstress sings about the light and dark side of life, the undeniable relationship between these two opposites, and how we cannot exist without either of them.
Country/Folk
Beautiful Loser
A track from the highly rated Johannesburg Nu-Folk’ singer-songwriter off her third album Six Winters released through Rhythm Records.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Fallin
Mingus is a well respected figure in SA Hip Hop who gathered all his friends from Germany,Sweden, the U.S. and South America to contribute to Beneath The Underdog his highly jazz influenced debut album.
Rock
Valkenberg Shuffle
Prime rat instigator Jonathan Handley wrote the tracks for this album, Spooky Obsession inspired by a real incident. Handley can be heard on bass, drums, vocals, spoken monologue and harmonica.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Trust Me Girl
Some stirring and melodic R&B rap pop on the title track off the new debut album from emerging South Artist artist Sylvester.
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R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Fallin
Mingus is a well respected figure in SA Hip Hop who gathered all his friends from Germany,Sweden, the U.S. and South America to contribute to Beneath The Underdog his highly jazz influenced debut album.
Rock
Valkenberg Shuffle
Prime rat instigator Jonathan Handley wrote the tracks for this album, Spooky Obsession inspired by a real incident. Handley can be heard on bass, drums, vocals, spoken monologue and harmonica.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Trust Me Girl
Some stirring and melodic R&B rap pop on the title track off the new debut album from emerging South Artist artist Sylvester.
Rock
Wish you Were here
The recent musical show Crazy Diamond- A Tribute to Pink Floyd has been released as a double live album with 31 hit Pink Floyd songs, interpreted by guitar guru Mel Botes and his multi-talented band.
Afrikaans
Kom Dans ‘n Bietjie
The title track off Linda’s first ever Afrikaans album Kom Dans ‘n Bietjie is setting the dance scene alive.
Rock
Geheime Trane
The first single from this two-man acoustic punk/rock band from Pretoria formed as a side project by Deon Roos from Die Onbekende, and Raymond Roy Horn from Neontetra.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Heyo
Fabian Josephus (aka GlamaBoy) started free-styling at parties and worked with many underground hip hop artists from the Cape Flats before starting GlamaBoy’s Risk Taking, the group that won the Western Province Talent Promotions.
Rock
Green World
Heather Mac rose to prominence in the 80s SA rock music scene as the lead singer of Ella Mental – here with a track off her new album, WITHIN , a collection of personal songs gathered from the last 25 years of her life.
Jazz/Blues
Jazz Police
Skanky Corp are a well-known Cape Town based indie jazz collective, here with a note to extreme jazz fans off their album, Panic.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Isithandwa
On his debut album Life & Death , hip hop artist Shane Q sings about growing up with a love of music and his musical inspiration, American rapper 2 Pac.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
On the Otha Side
On Veraz’s debut album, From Joburg to Jamaica , this hip new local artist sings songs about ordinary life in Jeppe Street, xenophobia, love, nature and unity to workers.
Afrikaans
Met Hoeveel Lewens Moet Ons Nog Betaal
A track off new album Geskroef, an Afrikaans Blues album set against the backdrop of the social and political issues of this country.
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R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
GlamaBoy
Fabian Josephus (aka GlamaBoy) started free-styling at parties and worked with many underground hip hop artists from the Cape Flats before starting GlamaBoy’s Risk Taking, the group that won the Western Province Talent Promotions.
Rock
Heather Mac
Heather Mac rose to prominence in the 80s SA rock music scene as the lead singer of Ella Mental – here with a track off her new album, WITHIN , a collection of personal songs gathered from the last 25 years of her life.
Jazz/Blues
Skanky Corp
Skanky Corp are a well-known Cape Town based indie jazz collective, here with a note to extreme jazz fans off their album, Panic.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Shane Q The Genesis
On his debut album Life & Death , hip hop artist Shane Q sings about growing up with a love of music and his musical inspiration, American rapper 2 Pac.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Veraz
On Veraz’s debut album, From Joburg to Jamaica , this hip new local artist sings songs about ordinary life in Jeppe Street, xenophobia, love, nature and unity to workers.
Afrikaans
Met Hoeveel Lewens Moet Ons Nog Betaal
A track off new album Geskroef, an Afrikaans Blues album set against the backdrop of the social and political issues of this country.
Rock
Skin You’re In
First single to be released off thisoutstanding new bluesy-rock 5-track EP Are We Fine Yet ,from this emerging and very talented Cape Town-based female singer.
Rock
Toasted Take-aways
A blast of live SA rock genius from the late James Phillips and his crazy gang off the legendary 1980′s Live at Jamesons album.
Country/Folk
Real Good Feeling
Single from his debut album Feelings Out OfSight , this old-school country musician still plays his Yamaha FG180 from the sixties on some of the songs he has written over the years.
Kwaito
Ziyawa
Bongani MP – Ziyawa – Fresh new single from the Kwaggafontein Kwaito artist with a track off his third album Ngim’lo
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Love Constant
A song from this SA vocalist’s debut album Love Constant, on which her sultry soulful sound and poignant lyrics are the perfect ingredients for an adult contemporary album.
Syajayva
A hip hop artist, songwriter, singer, and record producer from KZN whose newly-released Durban Kings album rocks the house with pumping sounds and great beats.
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Vlieg
Egmond returns with the smashing first single off their upcoming sophomore release, Vuil Wasgoed – a duet with songbird Yolandi,who also featured in Egmond’s #1 hit Dis Elektries from his debut album.
Melk in Jou tee
First single off the debut Gospel album from Janiné Grobbelaar, an emerging faith-pop singer from Centurion. From Melk In Jou Tee .
Die Meisie Van De Aar
More Afrikaans Rock ‘N Tjank sounds from this singer-songwriter who is building a strong reputation for his incisive lyrics. This track is off his debut album My Hond Fanie.
Wolwedans
Young, gorgeous and gifted. This describes the talented Lara Frances in a nutshell. Her new album, Little Rendition, is a delicious mixture of nu-folkish pop with the merest hint of rock.
100 000 Keer
Pieter Smit and Ben van Zyl, two young musicians from Pretoria, combine their talents on this impressive English and Afrikaans album When This Whistle Blows.
Boer Se Nie Jammer Nie
Koos Kombuis described Malan as “the prophet of our times” and “a one-man cultural revolution” and said the songs on his “Alien Inboorling” were likely to force Afrikaners to “question everything we thought we knew about ourselves.”
Mors
The video for this new single off this emerging artist’s debut album, ‘Ongevraagde Hello‘, is the first of his string of video hits to be filmed in HD.
Blikkie se Boom
Some Goema sounds from the Cape Kings of the genre off the ‘Voelvry’ compilation album of the wave of “alternative” Afrikaans music that swept the country in 1988/9. From Mr Mac & The Genuines.
Vir Almal
VCK’s first single was released for free download, even before the 2011 album was properly finished.
Somer Is Op Ons
Huis Najaar, a 5-piece Afrikaans rock outfit from PE, have been described by Van Coke Kartel as “somewhere between Jax Panik and Die Heuwels Fantasties”.
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R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Syajayva
A hip hop artist, songwriter, singer, and record producer from KZN whose newly-released Durban Kings album rocks the house with pumping sounds and great beats.
Dance/House/Electro
In You Go
A new offering from Cape Town musician and producer Shane Cooper off In You Go, the debut album by Card On Spokes which is his solo project.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
B-Traq
A new single off the album Outatime by this exciting new funk-pop band on the SA music scene, with a sound that is both fresh and funky fusing several genres like Funk, RnB and Rock.
Jazz/Blues
Steve D
This newly-released nostalgic album Goud & Silwer – Silver & Gold, performed by Steve D, features well-loved golden oldies dusted off and presented in a unique way.
Afrikaans
Vlieg
Egmond returns with the smashing first single off their upcoming sophomore release, Vuil Wasgoed – a duet with songbird Yolandi,who also featured in Egmond’s #1 hit Dis Elektries from his debut album.
Jazz/Blues
Got The Blues
A track off the album 4 seasons , an all original collection of some of the best numbers from this “WorldTraveller’s” extensive career, and is his first album on the “IMG Eden” label.
Pop
Breathing Dreams
Breathing Dreams – Title track off the new album from the artist voted one of the top 5 vocalists in South Africa, on which he composed, produced and recorded 16 beautifully crafted brand new Rock/Pop songs.
Country/Folk
Gee Nooit Op
Monique Leite is a passionate singer who delivers a special performance and message in each song of this album Success. It has a song for everyone out there English and Afrikaans, the partygoer, the romantic soul, the rock-a-billy boy and the country girl.
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Pop
Breathing Dreams
Breathing Dreams – Title track off the new album from the artist voted one of the top 5 vocalists in South Africa, on which he composed, produced and recorded 16 beautifully crafted brand new Rock/Pop songs.
Country/Folk
Gee Nooit Op
Monique Leite is a passionate singer who delivers a special performance and message in each song of this album Success. It has a song for everyone out there English and Afrikaans, the partygoer, the romantic soul, the rock-a-billy boy and the country girl.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Here I Am
The debut solo album from Mr J (Joel Martins), one of the original “Hermanus Pavarottis”, who once sang on street corners of Hermanus for pennies.
Afrikaans
Melk in Jou tee
First single off the debut Gospel album from Janiné Grobbelaar, an emerging faith-pop singer from Centurion. From Melk In Jou Tee .
World Music
Mercury (Ross Gabriel Dub Mix)
Lu Chase is a South African singer, songwriter, radio DJ and actress best known for fronting the band Iridium Project.
Two
An extract from one of the six extended pieces from the Dirty Skirts frontman off his new solo album Piano Nocturnes Volume One featuring some ambient solo piano music.
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Rock
Open
A track off Guitar Tunes the recent album from this acclaimed musician and composer accompanied by Prof Andrew Tracey of The Andrew Tracey Steelband.
Rock
Drive All Day
The new single from Summer Shade’s latest EP features a mixture of rock, tribal, African, folk and a whole lot more.
Afrikaans
Die Meisie Van De Aar
More Afrikaans Rock ‘N Tjank sounds from this singer-songwriter who is building a strong reputation for his incisive lyrics. This track is off his debut album My Hond Fanie.
Country/Folk
Coffee In The Rain
The new single from this five-piece folky group off their recent album Rhymes In The Attic.
Rock
Fire Still Burns
A track off this Johannesburg based singer-songwriter’s debut pop-rock solo album No Apologies .
Rock
Crossroads
This Storm Rekordz artist is a Malawian by origin, grew up in Zimbabwe and Mozambique and was selected to represented South Africa in Sweden at the Ethno Music Festival. This song is from the album Never Walk Alone .
Rock
Wage Your Wars
A new single off the Painting With Sound album from this Cape rock trio featuring Nelius Nortje, Jade Abbott and her booming bass, with Morné (Mojo) Barnardt on drums.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Hold Me Close
The first single from Ben Caesar, who will soon be launching his debut solo albumLe Tigra, an original and modern mix with insightful lyrics to express the theme of “the dynamic contrast between the grace and fierceness of the tiger”.
Rock
Raging Girl
This newly-released self-titled album by Pretoria-based rock outfit shows why they ruled the country’s rock stages for almost a decade with their progressive nu-metal live performances.
Country/Folk
Billboard Lights
A new single, and the title track off this emerging Cape-based female indie artist’s brilliant lo-fi album, Billboard Lights .
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Blow My Mind
A song off the EP Now That I’ve Got A Girl by this emerging artist and independent singer-songwriter.
Mockingbird
A track off the Stellenbosch band’s latest album, Shed You Skin, inspired by bands like The Dead Weather, The Black Keys and The Kills.
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R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Hold Me Close
The first single from Ben Caesar, who will soon be launching his debut solo albumLe Tigra, an original and modern mix with insightful lyrics to express the theme of “the dynamic contrast between the grace and fierceness of the tiger”.
Rock
Raging Girl
This newly-released self-titled album by Pretoria-based rock outfit shows why they ruled the country’s rock stages for almost a decade with their progressive nu-metal live performances.
Country/Folk
Billboard Lights
A new single, and the title track off this emerging Cape-based female indie artist’s brilliant lo-fi album, Billboard Lights .
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Blow My Mind
A song off the EP Now That I’ve Got A Girl by this emerging artist and independent singer-songwriter.
Rock
Mockingbird
A track off the Stellenbosch band’s latest album, Shed You Skin, inspired by bands like The Dead Weather, The Black Keys and The Kills.
World Music
4:7
One of the number-titled tracks off Neo Muyanga’s latest mathematical opus, called Dipalo (Mixtape), which was composed, arranged and performed by this innovative SA artist.
Rock
Game Face
First single off the excellent debut album, You’re Underfed, I’m Wonderful, from this hip new Jozi 5-man band.
Country/Folk
Fotostories
String is the second Ses Snare album and is a mixture of Afrikaans, English, Covers and no doubt, some mind blowing original works from Mathys Roets, Pieter Smith, Leon Ecroignard, Thean Kotze, Wouter van de Venter and Blackie Swart.
Rock
Beyond My Dreams
Alicia Wolf is from Boksburg, Gauteng and has dedicated this autobiographical album of Rock Music called Beyond MyDreams to her late parents.
Kwaito
Nkosi Yamakhos
First single from this hugely talented newcomer on the SA scene off his album, I Have A Dream.
David Bowie’s 2002 Predictions About Music are Pretty Close | TheNextWeb
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left. It’s terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn’t matter if you think it’s exciting or not; it’s what’s going to happen. – David Bowie
via David Bowie’s 2002 Predictions About Music are Pretty Close.
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World Music
Did You Ever See A Kudu Cry
From the album Wild and Beautiful and Free, an album about the conservation of our wild creatures, from the rhinoceros to the blue whale, together with environments such as our natural forests.
Rock
All Apaches To The Snow
Some typically A-grade indie folk-rock from the Johannesburg musician’s recent album, Skinny Girls Are Trouble.
Rock
All These Foolish Things (I’ve Said)
A track from this highly-rated SA rock band off their debut album Tunnel Vision which was nominated for a Best Alternative Album: English SAMA.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
McDonalds
First single off his debut album, Life &Death from this hip hop artist whose inspiration is American rapper 2Pac.
Pop
Alive
The video for this new talented vocalist’s big hit off her debut album, Undiscovered was filmed at Silverstar Casino.
Rock
Anna Paquin
The Brothers Streep are an acoustic comedy band from Cape Town who gained international exposure when they were Skyped on BBC 1′s The Graham Norton Show to perform this track off their album, Suitable For The Whole Family.
Jazz/Blues
Knowers Ark
A track off the debut album As Above So Below from this innovative and acclaimed Cape Town jazz saxophonist.
Rock
Maybe Baby
First single off this new band’s long awaited debut album Nine Lives - these 12 foot-stomping, skirt-lifting, sister-kissing rock ‘n roll / rockabilly songs will have you up on your feet and dancing in no time.
Rock
Out of Rock
Putting the roll back into rock, Blackstoneradio combines back-leaning riffs with addictive vocal melodies by fusing 90s hard-rock with old school, classic rock.
Rock
Wanpersepsie
The Bloemfontein band who were the unanimous winners of a recent Rockspaaider competition with a new track off their debut album My Identiteit.
Dance/House/Electro
Control (Richard the Third Remix)
Produced with a harder, side-chain synth approach, its designed for the peak-hour dancefloor.
Rock
Sideways Lover
Putting the roll back into rock, Blackstoneradio combines back-leaning riffs with addictive vocal melodies by fusing 90s hard-rock with old school, classic rock.
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Eventually
New single off the acclaimed comeback album, WITHIN, from the former vocalist for the ’80′s SA band Elamental.
Wa Wa Main Switch (Power Failure)
The title track off this album that features Township songs at their finest sung in seSotho andisiZulu with some wonderful messages.
Boer Se Nie Jammer Nie
Koos Kombuis described Malan as “the prophet of our times” and “a one-man cultural revolution” and said the songs on his “Alien Inboorling” were likely to force Afrikaners to “question everything we thought we knew about ourselves.”
Gatskop Blues
A track off “Geskroef!” An Afrikaans Blues album whose theme is the trials and tribulations endured by the nowdisadvantaged people of South Africa and it is set against the backdrop of the social and political issues of this country.
Liefde Soldaat
Adam is a dynamic and original male singing group and this track is about always being prepared to fight for the one you love.
Vir Almal
VCK’s first single was released for free download, even before the 2011 album was properly finished.
Six Winters
Lovely first single and title track off the new album from the acclaimed Johannesburg singer-songwriter Laurie Levine’s third album “Six Winters” has just been released through Rhythm Records.Laurie’s blend of American roots music and the ‘Nu-Folk’ sound has earned her critical acclaim and a growing audience.
Blacks R Fools
Skwatta Kamp’s legendary MC with an unabashedly political rap off his new album ‘Slikour Ventilation Volume 3’
Bach’s Kittens At Play
Sterling “Electric Quartet” has taken the South African entertainment industry by storm with their album, Nova,and their genre-defying musical style and sensational live performance.
Taking my Heart With You
The Cape Town rock band that features Idols contestant Mark Haze with a song off their new 6-track self-titled album.
Mors
The video for this new single off this emerging artist’s debut album, ‘Ongevraagde Hello‘, is the first of his string of video hits to be filmed in HD.
Bout To Blow
Some stirring and melodic R&B rap pop on this, the title track off the new debut album, from this emerging South Artist artist.
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Rock
Misplaced Credit
Misplaced Credit – First single from the Cape Town Eclectic Folk Rock group off their new, second album, Rhymes In The Attic.
Classical
Bach’s Kittens At Play
Sterling “Electric Quartet” has taken the South African entertainment industry by storm with their album, Nova,and their genre-defying musical style and sensational live performance.
World Music
Ebhayi
A song off the album The Journey: Marabi Moments, on which this specialist a capella group, in the mbube tradition, deliver a tribute to the music of two gifted South African composers.
Rock
Taking my Heart With You
The Cape Town rock band that features Idols contestant Mark Haze with a song off their new 6-track self-titled album.
Country/Folk
Six Winters
Lovely first single and title track off the new album from the acclaimed Johannesburg singer-songwriter Laurie Levine’s third album “Six Winters” has just been released through Rhythm Records.Laurie’s blend of American roots music and the ‘Nu-Folk’ sound has earned her critical acclaim and a growing audience.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
See Yah
Ash (Ashwell Erasmus) – See Yah – Something fresh from this very popular Port Elizabeth-based Gospel-Rap artist off his debut solo album, ‘House Party Vol.1‘.
Rock
Reciprocate
First single off this emerging Cape-based female indie artist’s brilliant lo-fi album, ‘Billboard Lights‘.
Afrikaans
Blikkie se Boom
Some Goema sounds from the Cape Kings of the genre off the ‘Voelvry’ compilation album of the wave of “alternative” Afrikaans music that swept the country in 1988/9. From Mr Mac & The Genuines.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Blacks R Fools
Skwatta Kamp’s legendary MC with an unabashedly political rap off his new album ‘Slikour Ventilation Volume 3’
Rock
Sterre
A new track off the debut album, “2000 en Nag” from this 4-man Afrikaans hard rock band from Gauteng.
Rock
Rollercoaster To Insanity
The Otherwise is a four piece band out of Durban whose music is a blend of creative, dirty-sounding guitars and smooth, punchy bass lines over loud disco/punk/rock beats. Off She Doesn’t Care, She Wants To Dance.
Solo
Bronwyn Reddy’s debut album, Love Constant, is produced by the world renowned, SAMA award winning Mark Fransman. Her sultry soulful sound and poignant lyrics are the perfect ingredients for an adult contemporary album.
The Brothers Streep Launch New Idols Single
The Brothers Streep
Sunday 5th June saw the launch of the new Brothers Streep single, We’re Never Going To Be (SA Idols). The song pokes fun at the competition, whilst referencing past and present Idols icons such as Gareth Cliff, Proverb, Randall Abrahams, Liezel van der Westhuizen, Unathi Msengana and Heinz Winkler.
The song came about after the Idols producers contacted the Brothers and asked them to write a song for the new season of Idols.
“We’d just got back from having written and performed a song for The Comics Choice Awards up in Joburg, and Idols called us saying they’d watched our song about Anna Paquin on the Graham Norton Show, and wanted to know if we’d write a song for them. Idols is probably one of South Africa’s biggest locally produced TV shows – it was a pretty easy call to make,” says singer and guitarist Simon van Wyk.
The single is currently available for free download off The Brothers Streep website, www.brothersstreep.com.
“We’re hoping that making the song available for free will make it easier for the song to get around. All we ask is for people who download the single to consider sharing the link with others and maybe even request their favourite radio station to play it – that would be nice,” says singer and guitarist Dylan Hichens. “The song laments ‘we’ll never have a single charting in the Top 40’ – we’re holding thumbs that lyric will become ironic.”
Idols and The Brothers Streep came up with quite a unique way to present the song.
“Idols asked us to perform the song live to the judges as if it were a real audition, so the judges didn’t really see it coming, and we didn’t really know exactly what to expect. Standing in front of someone and singing that they look like Voldemort isn’t necessarily the best way to make a good first impression on them,” says van Wyk.
“We realised that carting in full band equipment wasn’t going to be possible, so we decided we’d just blatantly mime the song and hope it adds to the comedy,” says Hichens. “Actual pop stars mime all the time, if anything, it was the most professional thing we could have done.”
A music video for the single is on the horizon, and the Brothers have already had further song writing requests, penning the soundtrack to an upcoming advert for Geely which you can look out for later this month.
Suitable For The Whole Family by The Brothers Streep
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R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Blacks R Fools
Skwatta Kamp’s legendary MC with an unabashedly political rap off his new album ‘Slikour Ventilation Volume 3’
Rock
Sterre
A new track off the debut album, “2000 en Nag” from this 4-man Afrikaans hard rock band from Gauteng.
Rock
Rollercoaster To Insanity
The Otherwise is a four piece band out of Durban whose music is a blend of creative, dirty-sounding guitars and smooth, punchy bass lines over loud disco/punk/rock beats. Off She Doesn’t Care, She Wants To Dance.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Solo
Bronwyn Reddy’s debut album, Love Constant, is produced by the world renowned, SAMA award winning Mark Fransman. Her sultry soulful sound and poignant lyrics are the perfect ingredients for an adult contemporary album.
Rock
Pretty Pills With Funny Names
A great song off the new album ‘Madhouse’ from the band that brought you the classic SA pop track, ‘ZX Dan’.
Afrikaans
Vir Almal
VCK’s first single was released for free download, even before the 2011 album was properly finished.
Long Street
The Constructus Corporation consisted of: Waddy Jones (stories, rhymes and vocal fx); SA Battle DJ champ Sibot (beats, turntables & ‘final scratch’); and Markus Wormstorm (beats, production) here with a track off The Ziggurat project.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Now That I’ve Got A Girl
The sexy new R&B track with smooth lyrics, tight vocals and harmonies and a storyline that will keep every R&B lover hooked from this emerging artist and independent singer-songwriter. From the Now That I’ve Got A Girl EP.
Pop
Sing
This hot new trio featuring Nelius Nortje, Jade and Morné (Mojo) Barnardt, with a track off their recently released 100% independent album ‘Painting with Sound‘.
Rock
Voetsek
The brand new, smoking hot self-titled Not My Dog album was released at the recent Oppikoppi Festival in Northam. Just like the old days. With the guys in front of stacks of Marshall amplifiers and sounding more aggressive than ever.
Afrikaans
Somer Is Op Ons
Huis Najaar, a 5-piece Afrikaans rock outfit from PE, have been described by Van Coke Kartel as “somewhere between Jax Panik and Die Heuwels Fantasties”.
Goldmine
E.J Von Lyrik, Isaac Mutant & Teba – Goldmine (Shockwave Edit) – The current sound of funky Cape Town featuring these three hip artists combining their talents on the ‘African Shockwave Vol 1‘ collection from DJ Azuhl & Grenville Williams
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Rock
Banks Of The Breede
One of Cape Town’s best indie-rock bands with a track off their recent album, ‘Shark‘, produced by Gordan (The Strokes) Raphael.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Sharp Fede (Remix)
Buttabing Entertainment’s newest with his single “Sharp Fede”, feturing special guests Proverb, Flabba, Nveigh, Red Button off his debut hip hop album album, ‘Special Rekwest‘.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Your Man
“Funk ‘n B” is what they’re calling it. A genre combining old school Funk with New School R&B. Add some great songwriting, catchy hooks, smart lyrics, incredible production and heaps of personality, and now we have ‘Revolution’ the debut album of singer/songwriter/actorKeeno Lee.
Afrikaans
Gatskop Blues
A track off “Geskroef!” An Afrikaans Blues album whose theme is the trials and tribulations endured by the nowdisadvantaged people of South Africa and it is set against the backdrop of the social and political issues of this country.
Rock
Shot Down
James Phillips’ three piece unit plays one of SA rock’s finest ballads – off ‘Live At Jamesons‘ recorded in 1985 by the Shifty Mobile.
Afrikaans
Liefde Soldaat
Adam is a dynamic and original male singing group and this track is about always being prepared to fight for the one you love.
Jazz/Blues
Etosha
A tribute to Dan’s biggest South African saxophone influence, Mr Winston Mankunku, with this track about one of Shout’s favourite places, Etosha National Park in Namibia. Off the Greetings & Salutations album.
Rock
Baboon Moon Rising
Ramblin’ Bones is the alter ego of Jay Bones, former front man for the popular South African ska band Fuzigish. Here with a track off his new album, ‘Ramblin’ Bones & His Bloody Agents‘ which is also the name of his expanded band.
Rock
World Among The Clouds
The title track off Summer Shade’s latest E.P. The band (previously known as Nungarin) has remolded their already unique and refreshing sound to produce a mixture of rock, tribal,African, folk and a whole lot more.
Country/Folk
Autumn
The lead singer of Ella Mental in the ’80′s returns with her new album, ‘WITHIN‘, a beautiful collection of personal songs gathered from the last 25 years of her life.
Pop
Thinking About You
This 25-year-old soulful and sensual singer from Cape Town who recently miraculously survived a shooting during a highjacking in Gauteng, is South Africa’s most intimate and talented vocal discovery in years – here with the first single off his album “The Flight“.
Classical
The Beautiful Game
This original track was written for the 2010 Soccer World Cup and performed by the Tenors with Joseph Clark in Dusseldorf, Germany. From their “Recorded Live” album.
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Rock
Where’s My Shoes
First release off the new second album ‘Sins And Siren Songs‘ from this highly-rated nu-folk group from the Cape.
Afrikaans
Ek Het Gedink
A track off his new album, “As Jy Weer Skryf“, an in-depth exemplar of Chris Chameleon’s evolution as an artist over the past six years. The combination of his unique vocal capabilities with complex instrumentation gives way to a much richer sound.
Afrikaans
Lipstick Club
Die Burger described Al’astair’s album “My Hond Fanie” as one of the 10 best Afrikaans albums of 1998.
Afrikaans
Hoe Lykit
This dynamic duo, described by Huisgenoot magazine as “SA’s own Afrikaans Roxette”, has just released its debut full-length album, called “Hoe Lykit?“
Rock
At A Crossroads
A song from the album, ‘The Adventures Of Captain Stu‘ from a band that has been gigging around the country for the best part of 5 years; playing a tightly executed and energetic blend of afro pop, ska, funk, rock, with an urban twist.
Gospel
Ngizolilwela
African Cream Freedom Choir -Some beautiful harmonies from this choir which was specially set up by the African Cream label that released the ‘The Essential South African Trip‘ compilation.
Rock
Coz You Like It
A track off the twice SAMA-nominated rock band The Sick-Leaves’ independently released highly anticipated third album Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
R&B/Soul/Hip Hop
Turn It Up
First single off the highly anticipated debut album release by R&B powerhouse Lloyd Jansen – released through Cape Town based label, Stereotype Records.
Country/Folk
When Are You Coming Home Shamwari
John Edmond is a legend around campfires from Zambia to Zululand and from Walvis Bay to Vilanculos. Singer, songwriter, entertainer, storyteller, author and bush pilot. From his Zimsongs album
Rock
Could This Be
David Beretta Owens, the ex-front man for Lithium, is back with his long awaited solo debut, ‘The Order of Things‘ produced by SAMA Award-winning producer Theo Crous.
Jazz/Blues
Basshead
First single off the debut album ‘Secret Agent Man‘, from this multitalented Cape Town musician.
She Doesn’t Care, She Wants To Dance
The title track off the debut album from this four-piece band out of Durban consisting of brothers Greg Allan (Vocals) and Harry Allan (Guitar) and another set of brothers Christiaan van Renen (Drums) and Carl van Renen (Bass).
Are you ready to Fibrate with Dark Fiber
Dark Fiber release debut album Fibrate
Phuket based indie-disco band Dark Fiber have unleashed their retro brand of disco-rock on the world with the release of their debut album Fibrate.
download link for House of the Rising Sun
Unashamedly retro, Fibrate’s sonic character takes you back to a period when life was a lot less complex and Disco ruled the airwaves and dance floors. The debut single ‘House of the Rising Sun’ is being well received by DJ’s. Influenced by Hot RS’s classic version, BB Queen’s soaring vocals are destined to make this version a dance-floor classic.
Eight of the nine tracks on Fibrate were penned by ex-South African producer/composer Gary Crause and English composer/musician/recording engineer Rob Cooke.
Fronted by the charismatic BB Queen, Dark Fiber’s music is uplifting and inspirational with the odd twist and turn.
Listen to the record at www.darkfibermusic.com
The music video for ‘House of the Rising Sun’ can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/darkfibermusic
Track List:
1. Ride It
2. House of the Rising Sun
3. I Love To Dance
4. Dance Medusa
5. Loved By You
6. I Am What I Am
7. Hell Yeah
8. Phuket Moonlight
9. Dark Fiber
Album Information:
Released by Legend Music
Recorded at Legend Music Phuket
Produced by Gary Crause
Mixed by 2-Transient
Mastered by Rob Cooke
Dark Fiber are:
Vocals – BB Queen
Guitars and Bass – Boy@Heart
Everything Else – Dr Fugly
