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Taxi Violence Talk To 2oceansVibe Radio Tonight
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Taxi Violence will be paying yet another visit to 2oceansVibeRadio.com this evening on The Rock Dimension, hosted by Gary Cool and The Passion. And in their own words, “shit will be talked.” The chatter will be especially interesting, given that last month’s confusion over the alleged announcement of Taxi Violence as the official support band […]
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Kylie Minogue Jams With Soweto Gospel Choir
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This morning Kylie Minogue got down with the Soweto gospel choir, who welcomed her on her arrival in Johannesburg a few hours ago. She tweeted this rather festive picture of herself dancing with the singers, obviously having a great time. Wonder who’ll greet her at CT International next week. The possibilities are endless.
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Album Review – Gods Of Guitar
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Not many true guitar gods have walked this earth. In the hands of these rare beings, the guitar is more than a six stringed musical instrument; it is a source of immense power, a weapon of mass destruction, a light saber, the most magical of wands, capable of removing a groupy’s panties with a single […]
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Knockoff Popstars – Made In Japan
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you take a little stroll down to your local market, you can pick up anything from a pair of Mikes (fake Nikes) to a pair of Maddibas (fake Adidas) to the best real fake Rolex you’ve ever seen. It’s now only a matter of time before you can pick up a new secretary, wife or girlfriend as well.
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Locnville: The Official ‘Stars Above You’ Music Video
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The twins officially launched their second studio album today, Running To Midnight, and with that, a rather interesting music video for one of the new singles – Stars Above You. The video is pretty well executed and features a rather intense looking Siberian Husky.
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Taxi Violence To Open For Kings Of Leon [UPDATED AND AMENDED]
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the upcoming Kings of Leon gig. Earlier in the year, fans were disappointed to hear that they would have to wait until November, due to drummer Nathan Followill’s bicep injury. Then came the debate over who would open for the Kings. Well the wait is over. And it’s […]
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How Your Father’s Music Indicates What You Listen To Today [Chart]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In honour of Father’s Day yesterday, this nifty flowchart got put together acknowledging the influences that fathers have on our taste in music. The infographic handily predicts the kinds of music you’re liable to listen to based on what your dad was playing when you were growing up.
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Ridiculously Intoxicated Amy Winehouse Embarrasses Herself In Front Of 20 000 Fans [VIDEO]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s not clear exactly what Amy was on when she performed in Belgrade on Saturday night, but whatever it was, it was a lot. During her 90 minute performance, Winehouse managed to mumble mostly and may have even hallucinated a few times too. The next few legs of her European tour have obviously been cancelled.
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Woman Critically Injured In Accident With Idols Presenter
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An accident has left a woman in a critical condition after musician and Idols presenter ProVerb, whose real name is Tebogo Thekisho, knocked her over on Wednesday morning while driving home from his early morning show on a local radio station. Details of the cause of the accident are yet to emerge.
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Listen To The New Bon Iver Record
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You guys dig Bon Iver, right? They did ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ back in 2007, and they’re releasing their new album a little later this month. But because Bon Iver loves you, you can stream the new tracks for free over here. Click through, children.
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Richard Dreyfus Gives Stirring Rendition Of The iTunes End User License Agreement
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tech site cnet is having an important Reporters’ Roundtable discussion on a topic that affects us all: Why are end user license agreements and terms of service so incredible long and virtually indecipherable? Academy Award winner, Richard Dreyfus, helps to illustrate this point, by performing the iTunes EULA.
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Norway To Train Foreign Diplomats In Black Metal
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In yet another move to convince us that Scandinavian politics makes sense: the government of Norway is inexplicably offering to ‘train’ foreign diplomats in the ways of black metal. As in, the musical genre. Specifically, ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’, which you would know by now if you were a foreign diplomat in Norway.
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The ANCYL Wants Gareth Cliff Axed From Idols
08 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
The ANC Youth League is not very happy with Idols judge Gareth Cliff. In fact, they have called for him to be axed from the show. The reason: he said that the youth of Polokwane have no talent.
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Leon Botha, aka DJ Solarize, Dies At Age 26
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Painter and musical performer Leon Botha, best known for featuring in the music video of Die Antwoord’s ‘Enter The Ninja’, passed away on Sunday, one day after celebrating his 26th birthday. Botha was diagnosed at an early age with progeria, which lowers life expectancy drastically. Despite this,he lived a longer and fuller life than most thought possible.
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Holiday Murray And The First iPad Taxijam Ever [VIDEO]
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Taxijam.tv involves filming well-known local bands playing a song inside, well, a taxi. Normally this involves a set of instruments as well, but for the first time ever a band has performed an song entirely composed on iPads. LIVE in the taxi! Big-ups to the boys from Holiday Murray for pulling this one off. See their nifty achievement inside.
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Album Review: ‘Give The Drummer Some’ By Travis Barker
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There was a time when hip hop was the only music with any credibility. It was during the honeymoon period of the Hip hop culture, like the one punk went through in the seventies, when it sprung out of the ghetto like a flower through a crack in the sidewalk. It was un-contrived, real, authentic, […]
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Godfather Of Rap, Gil Scott-Heron, Passes Away
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Most people think hip hop is all about guns, bitches, and money. And rightfully so. But long before all this mess it actually started very differently, with one man proclaiming: “The revolution will not be televised.” That man’s name was Gil Scott-Heron, also known as the “godfather of rap” and the “black Bob Dylan”. He passed away over the weekend.
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It Turns Out Vuvuzelas Are Also Really Good At Spreading Germs
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not only do vuvuzelas make sporting matches sound like they’re being attended by giant, angry bees, but they also emit more germ-carrying particles than regular screaming; testing the amount of bacteria-sized particles emitted by a shout and by vuvuzela,researcher Ruth McNerney found the vuvuzelas a couple of hundred times more effective.
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PSA: Last Goldfish Performance Ahead Of European Tour
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right. This is a Public Service Announcement. The Fish are off on a European tour in a matter of days, and you won’t be able to catch them live in South Africa until October. That’s right. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Check out the details below for their last SA pre-tour gig. Date: […]
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50 Cent Cast As Blind, Mystery-Solving DJ Named Shamus Cocobolo
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
50 Cent has joined the cast of Odd Thomas, an adaptation of Dean Koontz’ novel, which I don’t really care about. What I do care about is the fact that 50 Cent is playing a blind DJ called Shamus Cocobolo, who will help Anton Yelchin’s “clairvoyant short-order cook” uncover a Satanic plot. No spice.
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American Idol Top 3 Finalist Falls On Stage [Video]
19 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Top three American Idol finalist, Haley Reinart, took an embarrassing tumble on stage tonight during her sexy rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “What Is And What Should Never Be”. Randy Jackson thought the fall was a set up. And Steven Tyler, predictably, loved it.
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JR, Jack Parow, And Die Heuwels Fantasties Collaborate On New Video
17 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Enjoy this early-release version of a track by local muso, JR (of “Make The Circle Beega”) fame. The track, titled “Show Goes On” will launch officially this coming Friday. Die Heuwels Fantasties and Jack Parow make an appearance on the track. Nicely.
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When A Bad Album Review Really Doesn’t Matter
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It must have been on 29 April or thereabouts and I had decided to see what was happening in town with a friend of mine. Thinking that it was dubstep night, I suggested to my friend that we should go to Kitchener’s Carvery Bar in Braamfontein. We arrived there at around 23h00, only to discover that no, it wasn’t dubstep night, but rather live band night. Not to worry, I thought, it would take a really bad band to ruin Kitchener’s on any night.
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“Shoot The Boer” Is Incitement To Murder – Halgryn Hands Down Final Judgement
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In what is surely a ground-breaking ruling around the subject of freedom of speech in South Africa, the words “dubula ibhunu” (shoot the boer) were declared an incitement to murder in a judgement handed down in the High Court in Johannesburg today by Judge Leon Halgryn.
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Purple Hearts Release First Video – Shot In Single Take
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Videophiles will appreciate the release of the Purple Hearts’ first music video, which was shot in a single take. Gen Akal doubled as the director, and editor of the video, with Tim Henny acting as DP. Between them they managed to capture almost two and a half minutes of uninterrupted footage over the 200 metre route. The entirety of the video was shot on foot, concluding with an elevated shot from a cherry picker. Check out the video after the jump!
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Album Review: ‘Between Two Lungs’ By Florence + The Machine
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I’m lucky in that I am not told what album to review each month. I can choose. But this is a double-edged sword. Because life is short I generally try to review something that is actually enjoyable, rather than wasting time listening to music that drains me of the will to carry on and then […]
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JHB Coldplay Gig Will Not Feature Any Jewish Fans
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Because, as it happens, the gig is planned for October 8, which also happens to be Yom Kippur – the Jewish Day of Atonement. This of course means that observant Jews will be engaged in a 25-hour period of intensive fasting at roughly the same point that Chris Martin breathlessly proclaims his love for Africa from the stage.
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Curio-Shop Afro-Motif Music: Who Will Rid Us Of This Sad Sight?
02 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
To get to my mother’s desk I had to walk through a curio shop. It was one of those dreadfully cheesy African curio shops, with the carved wooden and stone animals, the beads and the bowls, like you find at any South African airport, the Moyo restaurants and the Durban beachfront. I have that exact same feeling (as if I’m back in that curio shop) when I come across certain music videos made by South African bands. What is with this new trend with our bands who think that by merely smearing white face paint across their videos it will make them mysterious and exotic?
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
22 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What’s in my bag? Free songs by new Cape Town band Holiday Murray, some fierce guitar sounds courtesy of The Pretty Blue Guns, and a remix of Jack Parrow’s “Cooler As Ekke” that will make you want to bust a move. Yes kids, Easter is here.
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The Paper Record Player [Video]
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Friday, and I always look for things that bring joy on a Friday. And nothing brings more joy than a wedding, wait, no, that’s not entirely true. Nevertheless, here is a wedding invitation the folds out to become its very own record player. Very clever.
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