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"What came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Moonchild Sanelly has unveiled the music video for her track 'Chicken'. Watch it below. Playfully musing on a classical philosophical quandary ("What came first, the...

Moonchild Sanelly shares new single, ‘April Fool’s Day (Makahambe)’: Listen

"I want to be proposed to on April fool’s day / So when I say no I can say I was played"

Moonchild Sanelly has shared a new track called 'April Fool's Day (Makahambe)' from her upcoming second album. Listen to it below. On it, South African...

Moonchild Sanelly announces new album, shares single with Ghetts: Listen

The 19-track 'Phases' is out via Transgressive in June

Moonchild Sanelly has announced details of her forthcoming second album. The South African musician and dancer - real name Sanelisiwe Twisha - will release 'Phases'...

Moonchild Sanelly

It's the latest cut from the South African artist's upcoming LP, 'Phases'

Moonchild Sanelly has shared a new single, ‘Cute’, which features UK rapper Trillary Banks. Check it via the official video below. The South African artist...

A huge moment for the gqom innovator

DJ Lag has co-produced a track on Beyoncé's Lion King: The Gift album. 

The South African gqom artist is credited on ‘My Power,’ which features...

Gorillaz Tame Impala Bootie Brown

One of many guest appearances during the set, the track is already available to pre-save

Attendees at All Points East were given an unexpected bonus this weekend when Gorillaz were joined on stage by Tame Impala and Bootie Brown for...

View of the Glastonbury site with lasers over the dance village

Anz, Batu, DJ Storm, Ross From Friends (live), SHERELLE, Call Super b2b Parris and Yung Singh b2b Ahadadream are among the artists confirmed

Glastonbury has revealed the artists performing at Silver Hayes this year. Marking the first Glastonbury in three years, the 2022 edition of the Somerset festival...

Ghetts shares amapiano and Afrobeat-inspired single and video, 'Tumbi': Watch

It comes with a video starring Ghetts, which was shot on a Caribbean beach

Ghetts has shared a brand new single, called 'Tumbi'. Inspired by Afrobeats and amapiano, the track is produced by Splurgeboys and comes backed with a...

MS in a pool float

Delivering explosive, quick-witted lyricism over beats that blend kwaito, amapiano and gqom with grime, punk and pop, South Africa's Moonchild Sanelly has become a global sensation. Here, she speaks to Makua Adimora about freedom of expression and her new album, 'Phases'

“I always describe myself as ‘Snow White turns 21 and then the seven dwarfs become her strippers’,” Moonchild Sanelly says matter-of-factly, when speaking to DJ...

Photo of the Shangri-La area at Glastonbury 2023

The new Arrivals area will be built and presented by an entirely South Asian team

Glastonbury’s Shangri-La has announced its full 2024 line-up, featuring the festival’s first-ever dedicated South Asian space, Arrivals. The new area will be programmed, designed and...

These are the most exciting amapiano producers right now

Amapiano has become a world-conquering genre since emerging in South Africa over a decade ago, with the sound mutating in recent years to solidify its place as an embedded dance music culture. Here, Shiba Melissa Mazaza asks: who are the South African artists carrying the torch for amapiano right now?
 

Amapiano (also known as ipiano or ’piano) began in the streets of Gauteng, South Africa, in the early 2010s. The now world-conquering sound is a...

Phelimuncasi

South African gqom trio Phelimuncasi have risen to fame with their politically charged vocals and innovative beats. Makua Adimora catches up with them to learn about their new album ‘Ama Gogela’, their creative process, and why their music is here to entertain and agitate in equal measure

“‘Phelimuncasi’ means ‘you drink whatever you drink with a straw and you finish it’,” Khera, one-third of the South African gqom trio, Phelimuncasi, tells DJ...

2019 saw dancefloors embracing fast, syncopated and experimental rhythms, with jungle breaks and sounds from the Global South invigorating DJs and producers across the genre...

Dancefloor trends come and go. Familiar genre tropes, motifs and tempos reinstate themselves as dominant themes in clubs and festivals big and small, while inventive...

Durban’s DJ Lag is a pioneer of the world-conquering South African dance music genre, gqom. He’s toured the world and worked with superstars, but he’s...

In 2017, during his 21st rotation around the sun, DJ Lag was experiencing a moment that every artist dreams of but few ever reach. Gqom...