Red Bull Music Academy’s H∆SHTAG$ returns this week for a second series – and one of the music genres that gets the deep-dive treatment this time round is gqom. Watch it below – or scroll down to ...

Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

The thing about music is that it evolves beyond the location it was established in or its brainchild. Take Hip Hop for instance, it was founded in the mid-70s in Brooklyn, New York, by black youth, ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of how we consume and perceive music in the internet era. We can instantly stream or download almost anything. It’s so much easier to tap into any era, artist or genre.

Saturday morning in Durban, 2am, and both of Club 101’s dimly lit dancefloors are juddering to hypnotic electronic music that has been forged in the city’s surrounding townships. Upstairs, the ...

Kwanele Sosibo and Chris Saunders travelled to KwaZulu Natal earlier this year to meet up with some of the pioneers of one of South Africa's most minimal, raw and exhilarating underground dance music ...

Bhizer is gqom’s supreme penman. For evidence of that, one only has to listen to the 26-year-old’s hit, Aw’ Kodwa, which has now been co-opted by the award-winning kwaito group, Dbn Nyts. The song is ...

From its underground roots in Durban, the sound of gqom music is now spreading across Africa and beyond. But what is gqom? How did it start? How did it spread? And how do you pronounce it? Emily Dust, ...

Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life Aggressive, poetic, artistic ...

Record producer Lwazi Asanda Gwala, popularly known as DJ Lag, is credited as being one of the founders of gqom. The 25-year old DJ speaks to us about what it takes to make it and the importance of ...

The Distruction Boyz have come out to advise fans against pitting different music genres - and by extension artists - against each other by constantly comparing them. Speaking to TshisaLIVE shortly ...

Distruction Boyz enjoyed a brief flash in the pan with hits like Omunye, which sparked many social media challenges and burnt its way into the minds of all who heard it as a quintessential ear worm.