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WIN: Afrikhaki tickets to see Kurt Darren, 9 April New!
SA PROMO Magazine has two pairs of tickets to give away to Afrikhaki on 9 April, at Clapham Grand in London. Kurt Darren will be headlining Afrikhaki, with Arno Jordaan as support. As well as winning a pair of tickets, you will also win either a Kurt Darr ...
Zebra & Giraffe - In My Eyes video New! Popular
Music video for Zebra and Giraffe's In My Eyes.
Directed by Ben Jay Crossman.
Promoting their new Half Price album New! Popular
Cape Town group Half Price are back on the road and promoting their latest album, The Monotomy of Monogamy, packaged as a 70 page music magazine, which was released in January 2010.
The album is already gaining critical acclaim as far as Germany, Canada ...
WIN: Roland Albertson CD New!
Roland Albertson is a South African singer songwriter, now based in London. He recently released his debut EP entitled Legends of the Sun. SA PROMO Magazine has three EPs to give away.
We interviewed Roland in the March 2010 issue of SA PROMO Magazine. Y ...
Yvonne Chaka Chaka collaborates withIn Black Eyed Peas ... New!
At the beginning of March, renowned SA singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka was in the US recording a song with Will-I-Am - a hip-hop star best known for his role in the Grammy award winning band, Black Eyed Peas.
Yvonne also played a special show on 6 March at ...
WIN: Splashy Fen tickets, 1-5 April in SA New!
Splashy Fen music festival is happening in South Africa from 1-5 April, over the Easter weekend and SA PROMO Magazine has four pairs of tickets to give away!
In the majestic surrounds of the Drakensberg mountains, Splashy Fen is a lifestyle festival is n ...
Afrikaans 2010 SAMA nominations up close
The 2010 South African Music Award nominations were announced on 4 March. The SAMAs recognise music across many of South Africa's 11 languages, including South Sotho, Tsonga, Venda, Mghaqanga and more Of all the categories, there are 10 specific categori ...
Sweet sixteen SAMA nominees
The 16th South African Music Award (SAMA) nominees have been named for 2010, with many categories and artists to get your head around. Announced in Sandton, SA last night, some of the big categories include Album of the Year, Best Female Solo Artist, Best ...
Laudiology - Awesome Australia
Australia is absolutely awesome. There so much is happening own under, every weekend there are cultural events, music festivals and many international artists on tour. I was there with The Very Best, Radioclit and also doing solo shows. I really wanted to ...
Afro-pop duo Malaika tour US
The multi-award winning SA afro-pop duo, Malaika, will start a mini tour of the States in March. Organised by a Texas entertainment company Metropark Productions, the three-city tour will see the top selling duo (Bongani Nchang and Matshediso Mholo) perfo ...
CD review: 7th Son - Ontology
Self-described as rude, reggae, rock – I was excited to get stuck into this album and hear how they combine the three! Kicking off with a track filled with the energy of Offspring, ‘Step Outside’ introduced the rock element.
Next up we had ‘Tokyo’, ente ...
Roland Albertson - Just for the music
Roland Albertson is a Joburg born singer songwriter who after a few years of surfing and studying a commerce degree at the University of Cape Town, did a ski season at Vale in Colorado, before moving to London where he studied guitar and got into making m ...
Top SA DJs are going to Miami...
As part of the Winter Music Conference taking place in Miami, Florida at the end of March, some of South Africa's leading house DJs will set beaches ablaze with their sound.
DJs Fresh, Euphonik, Milkshake, Fistaz, Mahoota, Pepsi, Black Coffee and Culoe d ...
Hugo Niewoudt - Ek wil lewe vir more video
Die liedtjie Ek wil lewe vir more is Hugo Nieuwoudt's se nuutse. Die 36-jarige sanger, wat jou dadelik met sy stem, aantreklike blou oe en sjarme bekoor, is gebore in KZN, groot geword in Vrystaat en Gauteng en mens geword het in die mooiste Kaap en woon ...
Dear Reader - Great White Bear video
A fantastic animation for Dear Reader's Great White Bear track off the album Replace Why With Funny.
Great White Bear has been nominated for an MK award for best animated music video. The awards ceremony takes place in South Africa on 4 March 2010 and wi ...
Getting to know Kurt Darren...
Being an English meisie meisie, I’d never much gotten into Kurt Darren's music, the man known as the platinum-selling prince of Afrikaans pop. He’d become big in SA around the time I moved to the UK in 2002. This was when his fifth album Meisie Meisie, an ...
Kurt Darren - Sunday video
Sunday, taken from Kurt Darren's latest English album Smiling Back At Me. This video is sponsored by the South African Ballet Theatre.
Making classical music cool for kids
Cool Classic Kidz is a radio program that starts running on Fine Music Radio (FMR 101.3) in South Africa, on Saturday 27 February at 13:45. In this programme, young musicians from the Western Cape will be featured, performing a musical piece on their ch ...
7th Son - Without You video
Music video for Without You from Cape Town band 7th Son with their blend of rude, rock, reggae.
7th Son take 'rude, rock, reggae' to Germany
Touring Germany in early March, is a band from Cape Town who refer to their sound as ‘rude, reggae, rock’. They are 7th Son.
Formed 10 years ago, in the summer of 2000, it wasn't long after the release of their first entirely self-produced album Fire in ...
