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Dwson will be performing at the Cape Town International Jazz festival this weekend for the first time. Image: Supplied.

Dwson prepares for debut set at Cape Town International Jazz Festival

Dwson’s upcoming appearance at the major music festival in his hometown places his journey from local clubs to global stages into sharp, full-circle focus

Making it big: Umzulu Phaqa’s new single Mam’gobhozi is getting a ton of attention online.

Umzulu Phaqa: Singing stories, shifting culture and making music her own way

A genre-blending storyteller, Phaqa is redefining Zulu identity through culture-rich and fearless sound

Great soul: A film about Robert Sobukwe is to be screened at Constitution Hill, where he was imprisoned.

Diary: Sobukwe film screening, Kwasuka Sukela a fun event for the whole family and Kwaito makes a komeback

Sobukwe film screened at jail where he was kept In celebration of Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe, who would have been 100 years old on 5 December, the…

Night fever: Mr Shakes (above) headlined at the Godfather, a club in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth, in the Eighties. (Facebook)

Say goodbye to 80s disco in PE? Never!

Fifty years ago, disco started having an impact. Its influence was felt even in apartheid South Africa

BLXCKIE. (Supplied by Maria McCloy)

Night Embassy Joburg is back: The city that never sleeps resumes the nightlife

DBN Gogo, Blxckie and ByLwansta are headliners at the return of this iconic event

Going by the stage name Lazarusman, Lazarus Mathebula is known for charismatic poetry slams in international house music.
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South African artist Lazarusman elated to be part of Grammy nominated album

Slam poet Lazarusman’s vocals feature on and inspired the title of Booka Shade album Dear Future Self.

Uniquely Mx Blouse: The artist’s debut album is a fusion of sonic influences from throughout their life. (Delwyn Verasamy)
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Nostalgia, connection and the nomadic sound of Mx Blouse

Mx Blouse talks about their sonic influences and how these fused together to shape their debut album, ‘Elementality’

Champagne showcase: A video still from Monate Mpolaye by DJ Sumbody. The visuals reflect expensive lifestyles, which are characterised by money, cigars, alcohol and scores of women

The soundtrack to Dezemba

Every year people talk about the ‘song of the summer’, but it is so much more than that

Respect: Jackie Queens acts on her belief that women house vocalists need to be recognised and not regarded as afterthoughts. Photo: Tyrone Bradley/Red Bull content pool

The house that women built

Women vocalists are getting the credit they deserve from house vocalist Jackie Queens

The Lists this week: Airspace, THEESatisfaction and Amiri Baraka’s Black Music

The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo.

Aerofarms in Newark, New Jersey, is the world’s largest high-tech vertical ‘farm’. It’s in a 9?144m2 warehouse, which has no sun or soil and uses less water

Monique Bingham brings out her best

The legendary vocalist talks about her skirmish with American DJ Osunlade and the influence of South African house music.

The Pick n Pay chief executive said the retailer considered closing its doors the day of Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
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DJ Clock-Beatenberg collaboration a win-win dance hit

"Pluto" is filling dance floors and the airwaves, pushing Cape Town band Beatenberg into the spotlight.

Mark de Clive-Lowe has developed a solo show he calls Remix Live
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Mark de Clive-Lowe: Transcending the beat

DJ, producer and jazz pianist Mark de Clive-Lowe says he was chasing a girl when he first came to London from New Zealand in the late nineties.

Opposites attract: Zaki Ebrahim combined diverse influences on her album Every Opposite.

Ibrahim gives South African house a home

Electro-soul singer and global denizen Zaki Ibrahim has always been a nomad, but it is becoming easier for her to call SA, her father’s country, home.

I’m not the king

Speaking the kwaito language

Spoek Mathambo takes <b>Melissa Bradshaw </b> back to kwaito’s roots.