PUNK IN AFRICA
This documentary about the often overlooked punk scene in Southern Africa from the 1970s onward is now screening at various film festivals across the continent and in Europe.
Watch the trailer below and see the full list of screenings on the film website: www.punkinafrica.co.za
Produced and Directed by Keith Jones and Deon Maas.
Producer: Jeffrey Brown
Director of Photography: Gary K Griffin
Editor: Andrew L Wills
Ellie Goulding - High For This (cover)
It’s Friday. Crank it.
This album is solid.
“It” is fife and drum, an African take on colonial English marching songs, and one of the oldest forms of distinctly American music, played by the slaves of Jefferson’s Monticello and still played today — by one family, once a year, at this, one of the last of the traditional farm picnics celebrating the end of the growing season. I first met Tamke earlier in the day, before the sun had gone down, when the party was still getting going. He sat beside me on a hay bale, friendly-like, and struck up a conversation. He introduced me to his father, John, who sat nearby in a wheelchair, his left leg amputated above the knee due to the ravages of Agent Orange (and who has since died). After coming home from Vietnam, Tamke Sr. became a local judge. Back in those days, he told me, it was a point of family pride to “take care of the minorities,” and he reminisced about his grandfather bringing him outside, 50 or 60 years ago, to hear the drum call the field hands to the picnic.
Blues Travelers - Adam Fisher, NY Times
Sometimes you’re just in the mood for Luther.
The Tallest Man on Earth - 1904
A new single! Looking forward to another album from him.
Death Metal Angola trailer
It’s as if it were a scream. A scream in revolt.
War ravaged and potentially the richest country in Africa, Angola is the epicenter of the African hardcore music scene. Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores live and breath rock and roll. They run and live in the Okutiuka orphanage in Huambo, Angola and have a dream. They are going to mount the first ever national rock concert, bringing together for the first time the best and the brightest in Angolan hardcore death metal, thrash metal and melodic death-core.
THIS HATH GIVEN ME EVERLASTING LIFE
Awesome x 1000
The live music slate so far this summer…
The Avett Brothers, Devotchka, Fiona Apple, Jessica Lea Mayfield, The Wooden Sky, Alabama Shakes, Neil Young (if you’re into that…) so far on the summer concert agenda.
How will you know if you’ve found me at last?
‘Cause I’ll be the one, be the one, be the one
With my heart in my lap
I’m so tired
I’m so tired
And I wish I was the moon tonight
