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#Throwback | Spoek Mathambo: A Bandleader
Spoek Mathambo released his album Father Creeper through the Sub Pop label in 2012. It was a big deal. He was fresh off of creating a movement whose tremours took root in Jozi’s CBD and completely changed how kids coming up then approached their art. He hadn’t released Mzansi Beat Code, his latest project. He…
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#Throwback | Photographs From The Now-Defunct Puma Social Club…
The Puma Social Club was a party hosted at 81 De Korte Street in Braamfontein every Friday. It used to attract students mainly, with artists, hustlers and corporate labourers providing a good balance between a ratchet night of forgettable fuckery, and great memories made sweeter by the said, inescapable fuckery. So big was the demand that there was always a…
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The Brother Moves On – A Myth Contextualised
I remember the first words I spoke to members of The Brother Moves On. It was at Rocking the Daisies in 2011; my then-partner and myself were taking a stroll between the camping and performance areas when we happened upon Siya (vocals) and Raytheon (guitar). We’d been impressed by their Saturday mid-morning performance at the main…
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Innercity Blues – Night
I got off the taxi before it got to the terminus one evening and wound up at the taxi rank just across the road from Bree. This I didn’t notice until I’d walked past ganja-scented corners, side streets decorated with the rush of peak hour traffic, and the pleasant surprise of running into an old…
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