Editorial / Reviews

Meet DreamKid – aka Ryan Morris – who is steadily doing his bit in keeping the beating heart of retrowave, well, beating. His self-titled debut album hit the airwaves recently and it’s every bit as nostalgic as you might expect. He crafts a specific sort of synthwave, which straddles the …

“Nameless”, the opening track of Headfury’s new album Rebirth sent me straight back to my hometown’s skate park in the early 2000s. It is the kind of alternative metal that denominated the park’s playlist. Massive drum rolls, hardcore vocals and intricate melodies.  This nostalgic quality is all over the album. …

ShabZi Madallion’s latest three-track EP Who’s Around When It’s Finally Done is an introspective hip hop offering, delivering sombre thoughts on relationships, love and the future.  Opener “Change” is stoic, with repetitive bass lines and stuttered piano rhythms, whilst ShabZi’s unpolished vocals add to the overall melancholic tone of everything, …

This last Friday the 13th turned out to be not-so-cursed as emo poster boys My Chemical Romance released a new song called “The Foundations Of Decay”, their first new music in almost a decade. The last time the band released new material was eight years ago with a song called …

Katlego Matseke – aka KaySoul – just inked a deal with Italian label Apparel Music and he’s got a fresh EP hitting the airwaves right off the bat. The World’s Gone Crazy clocks in at just shy of 20 minutes – each of the three featured tracks being sprawling and …

Meet Angie Oeh. She calls herself a mumble rapper, crafting an Afrikaans R&B sound with the primary objective of aggravating her listeners. She wants to provoke conversations with her music; conversations about sexism, homophobia, gender-based-violence, and all the forms of inequality people face today.   Her latest track “Big Booty Bitch” …

Hot off the trails of his boundary-breaking debut album, Poltergeist, Manic Kabana teases his budding audience with a saucy EP aptly titled Fourpack. This experimental testing ground sets the tone for his forthcoming album and previews the new heights of creative freedom and genre-fluidity he continues to hone in his …

Last I heard from Zen Garden they were navigating a delightfully refreshing take on indie-pop, replete in early 2010’s nostalgia and funk driven basslines. The funk-driven bass is still there, two years later, but they’re also dipping their toes into raggedy riff-driven waters with their latest EP, Troubled Tree.  Penned …

Rapper and producer ZULO (previously known as Lil Trix) just revamped his whole sonic identity and his new album, Talk To Me Naace, brings a whole lot of genre variety to the table to kick it off.  ZULO is a Star Wars-inspired moniker which sees him taking up the self-bestowed …

While her name may be synonymous with house music, Holly Rey is charting a new path with the release of the stripped-back version of her Unconditional EP. Revealing a whole new side to the SAMA Award-winning artist, the EP reimagines Rey’s popular sound, taking a step back from her afro …