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A-list: South African musician Letta Mbulu should have been on Apple’s list, the writer says. Photo: Getty Images

Apple’s Top 100 List: A coalition of Rock and Pop, but at what cost?

We South Africans know our coalitions (we’ll probably see more after our elections) and the recently released Apple Music 100 Best Albums list smells exactly like one

Kuli Roberts pictured taking a selfie with Mayihlome Tshwete. (Gallo Images)

Kuli Roberts: Naked at the feast

The untimely passing of Kuli Roberts, gossip columnist du jour of post-apartheid’s Gilded Age, shocked the nation. Bongani Madondo, who first encountered her earlier in her…

Umbrellas, 2020. The image will be shown as part of Of Blood, Sweat and Data, which forms part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme. (Photo: Nonzuzo Gxekwa)

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography

East Rand glam: Radio Rats Jonathan Handley

New documentary out on iconic Springs band The Radio Rats

A new documentary revisits the Radio Rats, who helped revolutionise SA rock.

On bass culture and incarnations of Grace Jones: Punk and third world tech

What do Grace Jones, Nina Simone and Lee Scratch Perry have to do with punk?

Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

Pussy Riot freed to improve Russia’s image, says band member

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has said their release from prison was not a humanitarian gesture, but a propaganda stunt ahead of the Winter Olympics.

Brahim Zaibat

New York’s Met Museum celebrates punk’s influence on fashion

Hollywood’s biggest stars turned out for the launch of the exhibition which honours the creativity and individuality of punk’s fashion rebels.

From book pages to real stages
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From book pages to real stages

A radical punk revolution was just an idea in a novel by a disaffected Muslim convert but for the bands he inspired the scene became real.