Category: LANDING
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Zee Nxumalo & Nasty C Lead Star-Studded Line-Up at Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival Celebrating 50 Years of Youth Power
Johannesburg’s most anticipated creative festival, Constitution Hill’s Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, is back. This year, the festival doubles down with exciting new programme partners as part of Youth Month commemorations. Celebrating its 14th anniversary from 24 to 27 June, the Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival is a signature legacy event honouring the young people who fought…
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In Conversation with siinaye: A Voice in Bloom
There are performances that entertain, and then there are performances that rearrange the air in a room. At Tony Dayimane’s The Big Boy Show at The Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg, siinaye did the latter. The space was already alive with anticipation, but when she stepped into her moment on stage, it shifted into something…
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Nanette Returns With Raw, One-Take Single ‘Ask For Nun’
The Second Offering From the Forthcoming Deluxe Edition of Her Critically Acclaimed Project “Painfully Happy” Nanette returns today with “Ask For Nun’,” her second single from the forthcoming deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed project Painfully Happy, following the release of “Baggage” earlier this year. Recorded in a single freestyle take, the track captures the unfiltered emotional…
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Ben September Chronicles the Grey Areas of Love on 7 Girls
South African R&B has no shortage of artists willing to sing about love, heartbreak and longing. What separates Ben September from many of his contemporaries is his ability to make those emotions feel lived-in rather than performative. Across his new EP, 7 Girls, the Vaal-born singer-songwriter delivers his most refined and emotionally layered body of…
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Levi’s® and COLORSxSTUDIOS EMERGENT Program Spotlights South African Artist lordkez
COLORSxSTUDIOS and Levi’s® announced South African singer-songwriter lordkez as the next featured artist in EMERGENT, the multi-year global music program designed to spotlight emerging artists at defining moments in their creative journeys. Marking the program’s spotlight on South Africa and introducing her world to a global audience, lordkez’s A COLORS SHOW was released on June…
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BlakSuga on Finesse and Returning to His Frequency
BlakSuga is stepping into a new creative chapter with a clearer sense of identity, but without abandoning the fluidity that has always defined his sound. The professional hip hop artist, rapper and singer is currently shaping what he calls “urban piano”, a sonic space where amapiano-inspired production, melodic rap and trap soul meet. It is…
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Illythehost, Soduh Beats & Tshego Santana Fuse Bounce and Bravado on ‘Ke Monate’
There’s a looseness to Ke Monate that makes it feel effortless, but underneath the groove is a razor-sharp sense of control. The production pulls you in with its warm, hypnotic bounce almost immediately, creating the kind of atmosphere that belongs equally in headphones and crowded late-night spaces. Yet instead of letting the beat do all…
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Tyla Continues Her Global Rise With Double Victory at the American Music Awards
South African superstar Tyla continues to reach new heights on the global stage. At the 52nd American Music Awards, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the singer emerged as the only African artist to win on the night, taking home Favourite Afrobeats Artist and Social Song of the Year for her…
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LaCabra on Craft, Culture and Becoming MR BULLY
In contemporary Hip-Hop, confidence is often performed at full volume. It arrives dressed in spectacle, inflated by visibility and sharpened through constant assertion. But every so often, an artist emerges with a quieter kind of certainty, one that feels less manufactured and more lived in. LaCabra moves with that energy.
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Nasty C Finds His Balance On ‘FREE (Deluxe)’
There is a particular kind of confidence that defines FREE (Deluxe), one that does not announce itself loudly but settles in with quiet certainty. Released just over a month ago, the deluxe extension of Nasty C’s fifth studio album arrives not as an afterthought, but as a precise continuation. It reframes the ideas of FREE…