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Aloe Blacc – Billie Jean Cover

May 14, 2012 Music

Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, known as Aloe Blacc, exists on the fringes of the mainstream music industry. If it wasn’t for the friend of a friend passing on a copy of his 2010 album Good Things, he would probably wouldn’t have registered on my radar. The song he is most known for is I Need [...]

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Win An Anthony Hamilton Hamper

April 17, 2012 Competitions

I have a hamper of four Anthony Hamilton CDs to giveaway as a follow-up to my interview with and blog post on his latest album Back To Love. The hamper, courtesy of Sony Music Africa, consists of the following four CDs: Comin’ From Where I’m From           Ain’t Nobody Worrrin’    [...]

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Onslaught on Watch The Throne

April 7, 2012 Music

It has been interesting watching the reactions to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne. Album has been out for a minute and, with the release of the first single Otis, everyone and their mother did a remix across the world, from Busta Rhymes, DMX and Justin Bieber through to South Africa’s Slikour and Kwesta. [...]

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Anthony Hamilton – True Soul Man

March 18, 2012 Music

Some moons ago, when I was a teenager, we would put together mixes on cassette tape (yes, cassette) for our romantic interests, incorporating songs that expressed our feelings much better than we could. Or we would phone, put the handset up to the speakers and press play. This was also an era where there were [...]

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Dirty Loops Do Bieber & Gaga

February 6, 2012 Music

This is one of those wonderfully random things one would probably never ever hear of if it wasn’t for the interwebs. Amidst the noise, some things still do get heard, reaching beyond their traditional borders into the ‘everywhere else’. A friend of mine put me onto the Dirty Loops. Made up of three Swedish musicians, [...]

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Indian Family Who Lost Custody Of Children

January 27, 2012 Random

I don’t usually stray from the specific subjects I explore on my blog, when I actually do post, but felt the need to put this out. Last week, on my Tumblr blog, I reblogged a post about an Indian family in Norway who were said to have had their children removed by that country’ child [...]

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The Roots Undun

January 19, 2012 Music

With Undun, which chronicles the life of the fictional Redford Stevens , The Roots also put out a short film. Beautifully shot, intense and engaging.

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The Future of Africa

November 23, 2011 Social

What is Africa’s future? A group of 2011 Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellows – part of a programme under the auspices of African Leadership Institute – created 2 scenarios of Africa in 2025. They explored how the continent would turn out depending on what Africans and their leaders do today.

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Red Bull Beat Battle

November 22, 2011 Lifestyle

The 2011 Red Bull Beat Battle was a fascinating merger of styles and genres as 8 dance crews, primarily from Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban came together to battle for the title Champions. From Pantsula and Krumping to freestyle and Isbhujwa, the rowdy and enthusiastic crowd watched Artistic Intelligence take the title in a tightly contested final with Ubuntu from Cape Town.

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Gareth Cliff On Everything (The Book)

October 25, 2011 Random

Gareth Cliff has become one of those South African personalities that people either absolutely like or totally detest with very few in the middle. In his new book, Gareth Cliff on Everything, he waxes lyrical sharing his views on just about everything that happens in South Africa and beyond. From politicians, celebrities, fat people to guns, it does feel like he leaves no stone unturned. I am relatively nonchalant by Gareth Cliff and his opinions. They do not really affect me so I don’t really register them.

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M.anifest’s Immigrant Chronicles

October 3, 2011 Music

Ghanaian emcee M.anifest epitomises the marrying of influence, culture, origin and progression and, with the release of his second solo album, Immigrant Chronicles: Coming To America, he builds on his debut album, Manifestations, and his free-for-download album/mixtape, The Birds and the Bees, which was recorded in support of the non-profit Young Entrepreneurs Africa. He is also part of the African Rebel Movement (A.R.M) with Uganda’s Krukid and producer Budo and S&M with Sarah White.

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You Started, What Next?

September 20, 2011 Lifestyle

Beyond starting something, one of the greater challenges is maintaining once you have started. Sometimes, it is easy to get caught up in the newness and actually initiate something but what happens when it gets to the less sexy part. Many of us fade. In participating in the National Start Something Day campaign with Sanlam, this is a something that I have continuously been cognisance off; the risk of starting to procrastinate and fade. It is awesome that we Start Something, even better that we follow the full course.

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Win A R. Kelly Hamper

August 31, 2011 Competitions

Robert Sylvester Kelly is, arguably, one of the greater songwriters to grace the R&B scene in the last decade or so since he stepped out from the shadows of the Public Announcement and staked his place as a singer, songwriter and producer. In this period, he has built a decent discography starting with Born Into The 90s (R. Kelly & The Public Announcement) and his first solo album 12 Play through to the most recent The Love Letter. And amidst all of these albums, he has written and sang some banging, sometime raunchy and raw, sometime emotional songs, including I Can’t Sleep (Baby If I), My Body’s Calling, Sadie, I Believe I can Fly, If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time, Ignition, Looking For Love and Bad Man.

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