It’s tempting to call gqom—the ecstatic, frenetic form genre that’s emerged from the heart of Durban, South Africa over the past few years—a fusion genre or dance music subgenre, but the truth is a ...

Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half-baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back Many people got their ...

Singer Babes Wodumo has challenged emerging gqom artists to create music with meaning and offered to mentor those wanting to learn from her experience.

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 ...

Let’s think for a second about the idea of the unknown. The unknown, surely, is inherently paradoxical. To know that something is unknown is to make it, well, known. I know, I know, Donald Rumsfeld ...

From its underground roots in Durban, the sound of gqom music is now spreading across Africa and beyond. But what is gqom? How did it start? How did it spread? And how do you pronounce it? Emily Dust, ...

The revamped SA Music Awards (Samas) categories have set tongues wagging in the music industry. What has irked the purists is the expansion of the definition of the Best Kwaito Album category to ...

The Temple Boys are on a mission to leave a mark in the entertainment industry and the strides they've made have been a build-up towards that achievement. It's not every day that you see Coloured ...

A new song channels the creativity of three African artists into a shared dancefloor rush, writes NDABA BIKA. The post ‘Inkomishi’ goes all in on feel-good gqom appeared first on Gadget.

Ntando Duma surprised Mzansi when she released a gqom track late last year but the presenter has revealed that she has big plans for the blossoming music genre and with the help of her new show she ...

During August, Mr Thela took on his second international gig at The Clapham Grand in Birmingham, UK in partnership with Skyy Vodka. He joined the likes of Uncle Waffles, Major League DJz and a ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...