From performing at the 16th SAMAs last week Saturday, to winning two awards on the night too, The Parlotones then flew down to Cape Town early the next morning to play to a bunch of Live Earth enthusiasts who had gotten up early on a Sunday morning to 'walk for...
Emerging South African songbird and fast becoming international Afro-soul star Nomfusi and her six piece band, The Lucky Charms, will be playing a few gigs in the Netherlands, Germany and Canada over the next few months!
A live performance of the celebrated Buskaid Soweto String project was recorded by the BBC on 18 April 2010, to be broadcast later in 2010 on the BBC's popular Sunday evening programme Songs of Praise which is watched by millions of people throughout the UK.
Hip hop artist HHP has been chosen to collaborate with seven other African singers on a United Nations (UN) song that highlights the importance of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Other African musos taking part in the project are the Soweto Gospel Choir, Yvonne Chaka-Chaka, Oliver Mutukudzi, Mingas, Wainaina,...
Website http://locnville.com/ Hip hop infused with electro and organic synth is how these two brothers describe their sound of their band, Locnville. New York born, but South African raised, Andrew and Brian Chaplin signed to SA label Just Music in November 2009.
South African gospel group Soweto Gospel Choir has teamed up with international rockers U2 on a World Cup project. The Grammy award-winning groups have recorded music that will be used on sports channel, ESPN, during the FIFA World Cup.
Top South African musos including HHP, Lira, Liquideep, Die Antwoord, Culoe de Song and Black Coffee have been nominated in the Museke Online Africa Music Awards (MOAMAs).
Taking a look at a few of the 2010 SAMA winners who have international scope and most of whom have performed in the UK before. From Blk Jks to Black Coffee, Louise Carver to The Parlotones...
A character from one of South Africa's best loved novels in recent years, is today celebrating his birthday along with its author, John van der Ruit, who was due to be in the UK at the London Book Fair but alas didn't make it due to flights into the UK...
Time For Africa' by local group Freshlyground and Columbian pop star Shakira, is the official anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The song is expected to hit the airwaves in the next few days, and will be available for download from 26 April 2010.
The London Book Fair kicks off today, running from 19-21 April, being held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. South Africa is this year honoured as the Market Focus, making this the biggest and most varied festival of South African writing ever to take place outside South Africa.
Push me to the floor is the second single off The Parlotones third album Stardust Galaxies which won a 2010 SAMA for Best Rock Album: English. The video also won Best Music Video at the awards ceremony held on Saturday 17 April at Sun City.
The video to the single which launched Watershed's career. Indigo Girl, off the album In the Meantime, was also huge in Germany where Watershed are currently touring.
Challenge: Festival skiing Location: Mayrhofen, Austria Month: April 2010 There’s always a fine balance between pushing yourself to the max and then extending your limits. I did not know what to expect when it came to Snowbombing. I am a keen festival goer – and can truly say that after...
At the 2010 London Book Fair taking place 19-21 April, the Market Focus country is South Africa, with a Cultural Programme entitled ‘One nation, many voices’ which will feature 47 authors,
Johannesburg experimental hip hop artists Tumi and the Volume are currently in France having just played Printemps de Bourges on 14 April following the release of their new album, Pick a Dream, on 12 April.
Two big South African bands, Watershed and MacStanley, are currently on tour in Germany as well as one show in Zurich, Switzerland. See below for tour dates. Watershed are celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band this year and MacStanley, who used to be called Flat Stanley, have been around...
The French festival Printemps de Bourges is underway, and the first of seven South African artists has already performed. Tumi and the Volume played yesterday, and the other six SA artists will be playing today and tomorrow
Organisers of the FIFA World Cup kick-off concert are planning to add more local acts to their much-criticised line-up. Local Organising Committee' s Hazel Feldman told Eyewitness News that a revised lineup with more local acts is on the cards.
Just three weeks after the conclusion of the 2010 World Cup, Pietermaritzburg in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province will be host to the UCI BMX World Championships.
Young SA wild cards Chanel Simmonds and Nikala Scholtz downed seeds while unseeded Swede Filip Prpic knocked off another highly fancied player as the first round of the $200 000 Soweto Open men's and women's tournaments got under way at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre Monday.
Since forming in only September 2009, SA's newest rock act Broadway Screamer have been signed to Universal Music and will soon be bringing out their debut album.
Mango Groove, Oppikoppi Productions and EMI Music South Africa are delighted to announce the 2010 Mango Groove Big World Party Tour. While the tour sounds like an international tour, it is in fact only a national SA tour with a big name which is taken from one of the tracks...
A few days ago, the lovely editor of SA PROMO Magazine sent me the blurb for this month’s article request. In a nutshell, 'What would it take for you to come home / what’s stopping you from coming home?' Immediately, I started banging away on my keyboard for about 15...
From the moment we entered, the atmosphere at Tu Chicas was homely. Soft Mexican background music and lovely interior Mexican décor, as well as five big paintings and SA flags, created a cosy feel.
As a result of the Programme of Cultural Co-operation agreement between France and South Africa in January this year, a few South African musicians will be playing at the Printemps Bourges festival in France from 14-16 April.
The thought did cross my mind when we left SA as to whether my sports-loving son would continue in his sports quest here in the UK. Besides studying sports at college (he immediately jumped at the chance of studying sports instead of history and geography of course) he has tried...
SA's hottest indie band, BLK JKS, who were recently nominate for two South African Music Awards, will be collaborating with internationally acclaimed DJ, Tiësto, on an exclusive track which will be premiered live at Smirnoff Experience™ Mashup Street in Johannesburg on 15 May.
Kelly Clarkson, the original American Idols winner, was recently in the country at the end of March playing gigs around South Africa. And in the hype of all things Idols, season six of M-Net's hit talent search kicked off in Cape Town on 6 April.
Judging from their global success and the assortment of creatures which grace their music videos – from foil covered dragons to miniature multi-coloured bunnies – something extra-terrestrial is underway with The Parlotones, as if breadcrumbs of cryptic clues are left for us listeners to discover...
This Family Day, 5 April 2010, we share a track which captures the spirit of South African in one of our country's great songs - Spirit of the Great Heart.
