The iconic South African singer’s new track, ‘XhosaNostra’, features a verse from the late Bravo Le Roux.

Spotify's numbers make for startling reading. Since 2018, global streams of Gqom have grown by 5,732 per cent. Peak listening ...

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 ...

Zolani Mahola readies her ‘People Power’ album, unveiling a bold new Gqom direction and personal reinvention with daring ...

South Africa (as I covered in a previous profile of House producer Black Coffee) has cemented its place as one of the world’s most innovative producers and exporters of dance music. By now, the ...

The minimalist house music that comes with its own unique dance style, bhenga, that’s Durban’s answer to Chicago footwork Raw, cutting-edge electronic music, made on cheap drum machines and uploaded ...

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 ...

To call it a wave or anything similarly short-lived is to undermine it. Watching the Gqom Wave documentary, a seeming accompaniment to DJ Maphorisa’s Gqom Wave compilation, one can’t help but notice ...

Kwanele Sosibo and Chris Saunders travelled to KwaZulu Natal earlier this year to meet up with some of the pioneers of one of South Africa's most minimal, raw and exhilarating underground dance music ...

Distruction Boyz enjoyed a brief flash in the pan with hits like Omunye, which sparked many social media challenges and burnt its way into the minds of all who heard it as a quintessential ear worm.

Kigali’s summer music calendar is leaning hard into amapiano, afro house and gqom, with a run of shows bringing some of South Africa’s most in-demand names to the city. With veteran names and ...