If a commitment to youth-led initiative is to be taken seriously, it is imperative to include youth in decision making on where to direct investment, how to design curricula for…
DJ Lag, also known as the King of Gqom, has grown from strength to strength in his career
Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive
Busiswa: An Unbreakable Story unfolds like a conversation between Busiswa and the viewer.
Every year people talk about the ‘song of the summer’, but it is so much more than that
DJ Lag’s mission is still to explore the transmutability of gqom to other sounds around the world.
Party-diva Busiswa is a powerful mix of poetry and music, but the club celebration touches on sensitive issues
The genre is morphing from its roots in house into a mash-up, as artists try new ways to get released
Dancer Artchild’s colourful presence in music videos is just the first step in her expanding career
From the fringes, a different breed of musicians is disrupting established norms
Not just a genre, gqom is not being recognised in the industry as the cultural movement that it is
FAKA is introducing gqom — most at home on Durban’s dance floors — to a new transgressive set
She has no concerns but – as the new ‘Mercedes’ single suggests – the celebrity trap awaits her.
Will gqom’s precarious position in the kwaito food chain get the better of Bhizer?
Inanda has evolved its own nihilistic ecstasy scene, complete with a loopy music genre.
