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Punk band Releases Nostalgic Lyric Video. Can You Hear Us at the Back is the first single and album title track, from Cape Town based folk-punk band, The Shabs. The album is set for release in March this year. The video, which was designed by double bassist Ryan McArthur and animated by Studio Bolland, is a full-on 90’s punk nostalgia flashback. The band says the ...

RADA continues to Change Perspective in 2019! In 2017, RADA sought out to record an album of cover songs sung by South Africa’s top musicians. What came out of it was more than just an album. RADA created a movement. RADA Inspire. Using music as a vehicle for change, RADA released, to critical acclaim, a power anthem featuring 31 of South Africa’s top artists titled We Stand ...

Glossy New Album for Brooklyn’s Matt. Matt Simons has announced the release of his new 12-track album, After The Landslide. This is New York, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s third long player, is due for release 5 April 2019, on PIAS Records abroad and Gallo Record Company, in Africa. The album will be preceded by lead single Open Up, which is out. A born USA West ...

New Ashlinn Song brings 50 Shades of Gray… The South African born singer songwriter has come a long way since her humble beginnings in 2015. Making her industry debut when she was just 16, Ashlinn has, over the years, matured and grown as an individual, as well as in her art. The edgy artist is embracing her unique power, and unapologetically so, with the release ...

SA se Top Boy Band bring roering in die Water. Uit die pen van Hugo Ludik, Reynardt Hugo en Nerine Gardiner, stel ADAM hulle nuutste enkelsnit, Iets In Die Water, bekend. “Ek het die inspirasie gekry toe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters die titel van Mej Heelal ingepalm het in 2017. Ek het gedink Suid-Afrika het al so baie skoonheidstitels verower en met al die ADAM-toere, het ons besef dat Suid-Afrika regtig ...

Lushious Free-State Venue for Larger then Life Music Festival! Lush Festival, presented by KykNET and Sunday Times, returns to Clarens over Easter Weekend from 18 to 21 April 2019 and this year the festival welcomes a brand new home. Noah’s Cheese on the farm Node, located just outside of Clarens, is the spacious new location for Lush. Life is all about experiences. Savouring beauty. Finding hidden ...

Nuwe Musiek Video vir The Voice Heldin! Samantha Leonard se tweede enkelsnit, Jou Hart Sal Heel Raak, is onlangs vrygestel en nou volg die musiekvideo vir hierdie treffende ballade. Die lied is geskryf deur die uiters talentvolle Vaughan en Nerine Gardiner. Die musiekvideo is by Amorosa, aan die voet van die majestieuse Magaliesbergreeks, tussen Pretoria-Noord en Hartebeespoortdam, geskiet. Ryno Mans van RM Productions het die video geskiet ...

Strings of Harmonies on New DECA CD. Naturally: the album name from popular instrumental duo Deca’s brand new release is testament to what listeners can expect.  With Douw and Herman Steyn driving the music with violin and guitar, the new album will follow a more natural and organic direction. Deca’s first album, Black Sails, was fairly organic, however the new album takes it a step further. There ...

New Album for 2018 Ghoema King! The new and long-awaited Jo Black album, Voel jy die Genade, is now available on all digital platforms as well as in all good music stores! Jo goes with more than 8-million views on YouTube, a total of seven Ghoema Awards in 2018, and since his debut with Skepe in 2016, Jo Black has made an incredible mark on the South African music industry. Which ...

Meet your host before 14 February when the 1st Bachelor SA starts! It’s all over the M-Net channels, and petals are falling much more noticeably, introducing that Channel 101 will be bringing viewers the local version of the immensely successful international reality dating show franchise, The Bachelor.  M-Net also revealed that local heartthrob, former Sharks rugby player, international model and business owner, Lee Thompson, would be ...

Royal Moscow Ballet to tour Southern Africa. Russian cultural impresario, Edouard Miasnikov, has announced the 2019 tour of the Royal Moscow Ballet to South Africa, presenting three pieces: Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture: Fantasy, the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6, Pathétique and excerpts from Carl Orff’s scenic cantanta, Carmina Burana. Royal Moscow Ballet has toured successfully around the globe presenting more than a thousand ...

What is Love? Baby, This won’t Hurt You! Hot 91.9fm announced today that they will be presenting the Flashback to the 90’s Concert featuring smash hot artists Dr Alban and Haddaway, on 27 April 2019, at the Waterfall Park at Mall of Africa, Waterfall City. The concert will feature some of South Africa’s timeless acts including Just Jinjer, Dr Victor and the Rasta Rebels, and ...

Huge Line-Up for Rock on the Lawns 2019 – A Real Cure! AMP Events is proud to confirm that Indie Pop/Rock icons The Cure will headline the 2019 Rock on the Lawns music festivals in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The Cure is considered to be one of the greatest rock acts in the world. With a catalogue spanning 40 years, the UK-based outfit, fronted by ...

Nuwe Olwagen film word vrygestel na die sukses van Kanarie! Christiaan Olwagen se derde vollengte film, Die seemeeu, word op 5 April by fliekteaters landswyd vrygestel. Van dieselfde kreatiewe span, met ‘n geselskap van teater-reuse, en die weghol sukses van Kanarie in 2018, beloof Die seemeeu om nie teleur te stel nie. Olwagen neem dié klassieke teaterstuk deur Anton Tsjechof en verplaas dit na Suid-Afrika ...

Musical Legend back with 4 City SA Tour! Singer, songwriter and record producer, Albert Hammond is a prolific music industry giant, who has written commercially successful songs for some of the biggest names in the Music Industry, including Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Glen Campbell and Julio Iglesias, to name a few. A solo singer in his own right, Hammond ...

Enticing South African dramedy puts family relationships squarely in the spotlight. by Jaco Lotriet The complexities of everyday family life, through its trials and tribulations, is a relatable topic to everyone and one that happens to be beautifully depicted in this thought-provoking, quirky mix of intense character-driven drama, with a good measure of uproarious humour. From the pen of renowned award-winning producer Bianca Isaac, in ...

Bradley returns to SA with Capital Tour Jason Bradley started his career by touring to the UK and Nashville Tennessee, as invited by Curb records who produced artists such as Tim McGraw and Lee-Ann Rimes, where he also got to spend time with Kenny Rogers and Keith Urban. Bradley also made an appearance on SA’s longest running Musical Quiz show, with Johan Stemmet, Noot vir ...

SA Pride snatches Grammy! Multiple award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir scooped up the Best World Music Album trophy for their album Freedom, at the 61st Grammy Awards, held at a glittering event in Los Angeles on Sunday, 10 February 2019. This was the group`s fifth nomination in this category and they have now won the prestigious award, a total of three times. Receiving the award on ...

How would you define Luxury? Cruises International recently announced The Luxury Collection to guests at an exclusive invite-only event at Mesh Club, on the Keye Arts Mile in Rosebank, Johannesburg. The theme of the evening was ‘What is your idea of luxury?’ Guests were posed this question and presented with many points to ponder on and expand their mind on this topic. Luxury does not ...

Bryan Ferry to follow Arno Carstens in Pretoria. With Compliments of Big Concerts, we are giving away one Double Ticket to the Bryan Ferry Concert, at the SunArena in Pretoria, for 16 February 2019. Ferry began his solo career in 1973. His solo hits included A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, Let’s Stick Together and This Is Tomorrow.  Ferry’s best-selling album Avalon, released in 1982, saw ...

One of the World’s Biggest Classical Stars Coming to SA! Andrea Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums and nine complete opera. For his latest release ‘Si’, Andrea Bocelli has teamed up with some of the hottest musical stars on the planet – reuniting with his friend Ed Sheeran after their chart-topping ‘Perfect Symphony’ on a brand new song ...

Inaugural Winner of The Voice SA Releases Stripped, New Single Richard Stirton unveiled his first independent single release with Defeated, which is available across all digital platforms from 18 January 2019. Making his mark in the music industry as the winner of the first season of The Voice SA, Stirton releases Defeated as the first single from his forthcoming EP Naked, due for release on ...

Cape Town Academy brings Sarafina to the Mother City. The Rainbow Academy Class of 2018 is proud to present the award winning South African hit musical Sarafina! Sarafina!, an ode to the lives of our fallen youth, who through their struggle, fought for equality in education during the 1976: Soweto youth uprising, is the ideal vehicle to showcase the immense talent amongst some of the best and ...

Debut Album for Gunshot Blue a True Reality! Joburg-based Blues Rock band, Gunshot Blue, have announced the release of their debut full-length album Until The Last Prayer, due on January 31st.  The album is currently available on pre-order. Their critically acclaimed debut EP 12 396km was released in November 2014 and just over 4 years later, fans will be excited to get their hands on ...

Indian Movie Star Arrives in South Africa for local Movie premiere. Bollywood actress, Lillete Dubey, best known for her roles in captivating movies like Best Marigold Hotel, The Second-Best Marigold Hotel, Karl Ho Naa Ho and Monsoon Wedding will arrived in South Africa earlier this week to attend the official Durban premiere of the much anticipated dramedy, 3 Days To Go… Dubey mentions that she ...

Frank Opperman gets serious again in a Role of a Modern Priest in Society. The decline in church attendance is a global phenomenon. The role of the priest in our rapidly changing world is one of the themes that lies at the heart of Dominee Tienie, a new film starring acclaimed actor Frank Opperman, who reprises on the big screen, the role he played on stage in ...

Action-adventure epic retells story of legendary South African Outlaw! One man’s bandit is another man’s champion. That is the theme at the heart of Sew the Winter to My Skin, a new film by South African director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka.  The film is a searing reimagining of the story of John Kepe, a legendary outlaw of pre-apartheid South Africa.. Hailed as a Western-style manhunt thriller, ...

Gate69 to once again host World Famous Drag Queen. As one of the UK’s top female impersonators, Ceri Dupree has been delighting audiences in Britain and around the world for almost 30 years. Aside from writing and producing his own shows, his extensive musical theatre credits include Hello Dolly, The Wizard of Oz and The Rocky Horror Show.  He famously appeared at Madame Jo Jo’s in London’s West End ...

Alan Committie cast in Shakespear’s Richard III. Shakespeare’s historic dark comic tragedy, Richard III, which will be presented at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre from 7 February to 9 March 2019, is directed by Geoffrey Hyland and starring award-winning actor, Alan Committie in the title role. Committie was recently seen in The Fugard Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s hard-hitting two-hander OLEANNA, and award-winning Shakespeare director Hyland returns to Maynardville after the ...

New Series on Internet Pioneers during Dot-Com Boom. Set During the 1990’s in Silicon Valley, this six-part limited series stars two-time Emmy award-winning actor Bradley Whitford, Steve Zahn and Lamorne Morris, with show runner Matthew Carnahan and Executive Producer, Arianna Huffington. Creator Matthew Carnahan uses a disruptive approach to tell the true stories of these visionaries, blending doc-style interviews with real-life subjects into the scripted storylines. ...