JOHANNESBURG, 19 August 2010 – Itinerant alt-country rocker Jim Neversink returns to South Africa in September to launch his third album, “Skinny Girls Are Trouble”.
The album launch will be marked by Jim Neversink’s first performance in South Africa in nearly a year and will take place at The Radium Beerhall in Orange Grove, Johannesburg, on [...]
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Jim Neversink – Skinny Girls Are Trouble
August 25, 2010 – 8:38 am
Ons Kerk Se Mense – Part 2
June 28, 2010 – 8:57 am
Source: toypom (Scribd)
Various Artists
OneF1015
Distributed with ONS KLYNTJI magazine dated November 2007
FULL DISCLOSURE: The reviewer collaborates on three of these 22 tracks and will therefore make no value judgments on the content or his own vocals but will restrict his comments to the inputs of his partners. Two and a half years down the line, this [...]
Reconciling the past
June 14, 2010 – 12:48 pm
Source: Lloyd Gedye (Mail and Guardian online)
He may describe himself as a mere “blip” on the Afrikaans cultural scene but Andries Bezuidenhout’s new album Bleek Berus (One F Music) positions him as one of the country’s most significant songwriters.
This is evident on the poignant Dis Net Werk Toe Wat Ek Nog Deur Hillbrow Ry, a nostalgic [...]
Ons Kerk Se Mense – part 1
June 13, 2010 – 2:41 pm
Source: toypom (Scribd)
Various Artists
OneF1015
Distributed with ONS KLYNTJI magazine dated November 2007
FULL DISCLOSURE: The reviewer collaborates on three of these 22 tracks and will therefore make no value judgments on the content or his own vocals but will restrict his comments to the inputs of his partners. Two and a half years down the line, this [...]
Interview: Bloedskande
April 11, 2010 – 1:31 pm
Source: Scarlet Tryst (Underground Press – 11 April 2010)
After Having Bloedskande “Almal doen net wat hul wil” Music video on UNDERGROUND PRESS and watching the success of the view rates, we decided to catch up with the children of night and ask anything but the typical questions,
Firstly striking band name any connotations to the [...]
Bloedskande And Footnotes
April 2, 2010 – 10:02 am
Here comes a band of musicians to redefine the word and make it their own, or not?
When I asked how the band redefine words and what it takes to make it fit a concept which isn’t even remotely linked to incest – Jan Smart frontman of Bloedskande answered…
Lyric-wise we don’t redefine words. The power of [...]
Met Jou In My Kop, a page out of the book of Bittervrug
March 24, 2010 – 1:03 pm
Source: Underground Press (Met Jou In My Kop, a page out of the book of Bittervrug 24 March 2010)
Nick Cave said in his “Secret life of a love song”, “It is no wonder sadness is so sad, melancholy hates haste and sits in the back of the class”. He was referring to a state of [...]
VAN COKE BO DIE GROND ROEP NA KOOS ONDER DIE GROND…
March 17, 2010 – 10:51 am
Source: Andries Bezuidenhout (versindaba)
Die een ding wat my steeds van Koos du Plessis verstom, is hoe hy musikale grense in Afrikaanse musiek oorbrug. Dink maar aan sy lied “Gebed,” wat keer op keer deur gospelsangers gesing word. Die mees oortuigende weergawe daarvan, dink ek, is egter Dozi s’n. Sy stem dra iets van die ware [...]
BITTER EERLIK
March 2, 2010 – 9:41 am
Source: Gulsig van Vraat (www.musiekvraat.com)
Bittervrug is akoestiese musiek wat nie bang is om ‘n bloederige hart te ontbloot nie.
Bittervrug is gestroop, eerlik en sonder tierlantyntjies. Die band se tweede album Daar’s wolke buite het die lig gesien onder One F Music se vaandel. Bittervrug bestaan uit Charles Badenhorst en sy eerste album heet Bloed vir [...]