Tag: Mahala
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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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#Fotografi And Why Taking Charge Of My Shit’s Important
I’d get frustrated by the turn-around times of photographers during my time as a regular live show reviewer. I decided to invest in my own camera equipment and started making my own images which would accompany the stories.
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Interview With Hymphatic Thabs
When I was coming up in Maseru Lesotho during 2001, I had no idea that ten years down the line I would be writing about an album that for months on end I struggled to even get a hold of a cassette version of. Even at the height of Napster (and the subsequent rise in…