ISSUE 01: CULT OF SELF MAGAZINE
Cult of Self – in collaboration with Levi’s® – celebrates individuality and authenticity through focusing on specific subcultures. Through featuring content around tattoos, customized bikes (fixies etc.), café racers and skateboarding the aim is to cultivate a visual conversation around the individuals, groups and initiatives that encourage self-awareness. To make it as interactive as possible,...
If Only For A Second | Mimi Foundation
When The Mimi Foundation invited 20 cancer patients for a make-over, they thought they were going to be glamoured up. Yet when they finally got to see their new look, they realised that they had been styled with a riduculous hairstyle and over-the-top make-up. What is more, an undetectable photographer hid behind the one-way mirror...
COMPETITION: OLMECA TEQUILA PRESENTS HAEZER
On 18 December HAEZER will not only perform his EP Gold Plated Frequencies for the first time to Cape Town audiences, but he will also be doing his first ever live visual show. ‘GOLD PLATED’ will see HAEZER performing on a stage set up uniquely designed for him with lighting and visual effects teams from...
Interview | Red Huxley’s American Dream
Dylan Jones (Vocals and Guitar), Matthew Pullen (Bass) and Murray Stephenson (Drums) of Red Huxley recently made a much-dreamed-of rock’n’roll fairytale reality. After giving their EP to Dave Catching of the Eagles of Death Metal and Queens of the Stone Age at One Night in Cape Town, they got the opportunity to record their debut...
COMPETITION | The Rock ‘n Rollercoaster Presents Inge Beckman
The Assembly has just introduced a new series of events entitled: ‘Assembly Radio Live — The Rock ‘n Rollercoaster Presents…’ Loosely based on VH1 Storytellers and MTV Unplugged, the series will host some of South Africa’s top music acts and offer fans, music fanatics, media and industry insiders the chance to interact with some of...
MERCEDES-BENZ | Shaping Air: The CLA as a Sculpture
The 2013 CLA by Mercedes-Benz — with a record Cd value of 0.23 and a drag area Cd x A of 0.51 m² — is the aerodynamics champion within the Mercedes-Benz model range and among all production vehicles. What is more, the sleekly designed car goes into the record books as the most streamlined production...
The True Holi Colours
With 2013’s We Are One Colour Festival and The Colour Run, South Africa has joined the global dye-tossing trend. Locally as well as globally the Hindu tradition-inspired events have, however, not gone down without controversy. We Are One Colour Festival — initially Holi One Colour Festival — omitted ‘Holi’ from their name, the for-profit organisers...
EVERYBODY STREET | NYC IN FRAMES
Everybody Street is a documentary by photographer and documentarian Cheryl Dunn that pays homage to one of the most culturally and visually stimulating cities — the sometimes mean but always mighty New York City. Being a drawcard for impulsive adventurers from across the globe and rich in history as well as forward-thinking movements, the vibrant...
New Release: Sean Armstrong | ‘Took Control’
DJ, MC and producer Sean Armstrong — who has performed alongside artists like The Roots, Pete Rock, Little Brother, EPMD, and Kid Capri as DJ Face — is releasing his new album Marble Cake Diaries on 19 November. Here’s the video to the album’s lead single ‘Took Control’ (track available here) featuring Tajai from Souls...
Interview | Yuriy Gurzhy | Russian Disco in Berlin
About three years after immigrating to Berlin, Germany, from Russia and the Ukraine respectively, Wladimir Kaminer and Yuriy Gurzhy started the legendary eastern-disco club night ‘Russendisko’ (Russian disco) in 1999 — first at Café Zapata and then at cultbar Kaffee Burger — by putting light on music that was previously eclipsed by the Iron Curtain....
It’s Not Happening Here. But It Is Happening Now
Living in what we call ‘the first world’, it’s easy to forget that the majority of humanity might be in deep distress when we grumpily wait for the make-up-ad-covered bus to the much-hated ‘daily drill’ in the morning. That’s why Amnesty International launched an awareness campaign in Switzerland to sensitize citizens to the human rights...
|INTERVIEW| THE VODUN HAUNTS: ‘LESS TALK AND MORE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL’
The Vodun Haunts are a six-piece psycho outfit made up of Le Riche Meyer (on the Vox Box), Russell Hatton (on the Shredder), Lance Brandow (on the double bass), Ken Bull-Smith (on the beat), Shaun Ponting (on the Six String) and Cami Scoundrel (on the Bag of Tricks). Their Facebook description claims that they have...
#Bottomrightcorner | The Berlin Edition
Every week we compile a selection of music to sing you into the weekend and list them in a post called #bottomrightcorner. Sometimes new tunes, sometimes themed tunes and sometimes we ask a music aficionado to choose the tunes for us. This week we dedicate our selection to one of the most sought-after cities for...
