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 ...

In 2017, after watching an EPK named Gqomwave (the title of both Maphorisa’s and Rudeboyz’s releases; you can guess who coined it first), I wrote about how little that mini-documentary told us about ...

Music producer and Gospel Gqom pioneer, Cairo CPT keeps rising as he continues to make strides in his career. He has now booked his first international gig in Dublin, Ireland scheduled for later this ...

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 ...

Music can be a spiritual experience. Whether it is people falling in love with the likes of Taylor Swift, travelling thousands of miles to listen to Beyonce or getting into a trance when DJ Black ...